Alison 10
Anna 10
Annette 10
Cheryl 10
Deb 8
Megan 10
Average 9.6
Callin groovin booklovers to the literary lounge of the Booklovin Blues. Cast your eye at what we’re buried in for the month and what our bookish lovers have read, whether we love’em or not. Come on down...
Dec/Jan 2015- The Signature of all Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Signature of all things by Elizabeth Gilbert
'Signature of all things'
is an epic set amongst the famous discoverers and discoveries of
the late 18th, and 19th centuries. The story of Alma Whittaker born in 1800
begins with the journey of her self made, ambitious father Henry, a poor
Londoner, who travels with Cook to Hawaii, works for the famous botanist Joseph
Banks and makes his fortune in quinine trade in South America. It traverses
the globe from London, to South America, Tahiti, Hawaii,
Philadelphia and Amsterdam. It is so much more than a saga though; it is full
of science and fascinating botany. In this time of time of new ideas Alma is working
on her own ideas and the theory of evolution.
Elizabeth Gilbert spent 3 1/2 years researching this book and it shows. She was featured in an article in last weekend's SMH:
The scores:
Anna 8
Annette 8
Cheryl 9
Deb 10
Genevieve 9
Kristy 5
Megan 10
Phil 9
Average 8.5
November 2014- Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Written from the point of view of Alice
Howland, who becomes aware of changes to memory capacity and is eventually
diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Alice is a Harvard professor, researcher, lecturer,
wife and mother.
Bit by bit her ability for remembering
diminishes and a sadness and fear sets in. The book follows her family’s and
colleagues reactions and her career’s decline and gives an understanding
form the sufferer’s point of view, enjoyed by most and insightful.
Anna 7.5
Annette 8
Cheryl 8
Kristy 6
Phil 4
Average 6.7
October 2014- Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Cold comfort farm, published in 1932.
'Cold comfort farm' is a parody of the doom
and gloom romantic rural novels of the time.
The book’s protagonist Flora
decides to stay with an extended family of unknown relatives in the fictional
village of Howling. What she finds is a group of misfit bumpkins, to which she
shows no fear, all with their own set of emotional problems and some looming
wrong done to her father, which they all think she has come to right. We never
find out what the wrong is.
Flora manages to use her modern ways to sort the
family out and bring them all back to the land of the living. The book is a
comedy and most in the group found it so.
Anna 7
Annette 6
Cheryl 4
Deb 8
Kristy 7
Megan 8
Average 6.6
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