Melbourne Book Worms Christmas Party

Please note, the Christmas Party will take place at the Mail Exchange Hotel in Bourke Street.

ANNUAL CHRISTMAS EVENT Please make sure to bring a wrapped book for our gift exchange.

December's book is Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor

The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse—by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals—propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village.

Like Roberto Bolano’s 2666 or Faulkner’s greatest novels, Hurricane Season takes place in a world filled with mythology and violence—real violence, the kind that seeps into the soil, poisoning everything around: it’s a world that becomes more terrifying and more terrifyingly real the deeper you explore it.

Runners Up:
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote

Meetup fees: To help cover Meetup fees and contribute to the EOY party gifts, please donate $2 at each of our monthly bookclubs (but not at other ticketed events). No-shows and late cancels are unfair to restaurant staff and the event host and will result in removal from the group.