What we’re about
We're a group of twenty- and thirty-somethings who read a book each month and get together over a few drinks to chat about it. It's laid back, social, and our meetings take place on the first Tuesday of every month at different pubs and bars in the Melbourne CBD. It costs $2 to attend an event. This is to cover the cost of hosting our book club on the Meetup website.
We like to only have enough people that we consistently get groups of 8 max to each event, so we don't accept more than 50 members. If you'd like to join, sign up, answer the questions, and we'll add new people when others leave the group. But we only accept members who have a photo of themselves on their profile.
Our membership waitlist is quite long so if you don't participate by RSVPing to events after a couple of months, we'll remove you from the group to make way for new members. Feel free to request to join again when you're able to start participating.
We'll invite anyone who comes along to our events to join our Facebook book club page which is where the conversation continues.
Upcoming events (1)
See all- June Book Club: Prophet SongThe Emerald Peacock, Melbourne, VIAUD 2.00
Dystopian books: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/158875813-prophet-songA fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.
Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and Eilish can only watch helplessly as the world she knew disappears. When first her husband and then her eldest son vanish, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a collapsing society.
How far will she go to save her family? And what – or who – is she willing to leave behind?
Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.
