Brisbane South Book Club

Welcome to our November Book Club event!

The theme for this month is Feel Good Books! We will be reading A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Bonus book if you would like to read it as well - Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46199.Letters_to_a_Young_Poet

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it ..."

Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her, until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George.

Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Edwardian England, personified in her terminally dull fiancé Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3087.A_Room_with_a_View

Happy reading!

It is best to read the book before you come along as we are going to discuss the plot and there will be spoilers

*price of the book club is the cost of your drink/snack of choice from the cafe

Welcome to our December Book Club event!

The theme for this month is Christmas! The book we are reading is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
'If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Merry Christmas? Bah humbug!'

Introduction and Afterword by Joe Wheeler
To bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it's too late.

Part of the Focus on the Family Great Stories collection, this abridged edition features an in-depth introduction and discussion questions by Joe Wheeler to provide greater understanding for today's reader. "A Christmas Carol" captures the heart of the holidays like no other novel.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5326.A_Christmas_Carol

Happy reading!

It is best to read the book before you come along as we are going to discuss the plot and there will be spoilers

*price of the book club is the cost of your drink/snack of choice from the cafe