By Chloe Hooper
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This month's Penguin book club pick
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On behalf of my reading group Scrolls, I'd like to thank you for the recent copy you sent of Closed For Winter by Georgia Blain, along with enough complimentary double passes for the entire group to see the movie.
I'm happy to report that the group was absolutely thrilled with your generosity, and are making great use of the tickets.
Personally speaking, my husband and I were fortunate enough to catch a screening at the Entertainment Quarter at Moore Park, and were blown away by the evocative film. It certainly tackles a difficult subject with delicacy and intelligence. Having seen the film I then read the book - and it was a wonderful read. Not because of the nightmare subject matter, but because you actually became part of Elise's world, turned upside down when her sister vanished on the beach all those years before. It was an excellent read, and I'm passing it around the group at the next meeting. All are keen to read it.
Once again, thankyou so much for Penguin's generosity and community spirit. I look forward to more book club offers in the future! - Malvina from Scrolls.
Book club notes
The Adventures of Augie March
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Book Club Notes for The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow Book Summary Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March burst on the postwar literary scene with the exuberance of a great American author finding his true voice. The most freewheeling of Bellow's heroes, Augie paints a fresh, gritty, comic view of the American landscape and poses anew the perennial ...
The Age of Innocence
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Book Club Notes for The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Book Summary The Age of Innocence is a title both ironic and poignant: ironic because the 'age' or period of the book, the late nineteenth century, teems with intolerance, collusion, and cynicism; poignant because the only innocence lost is that of Newland Archer, the resolute gentleman whose insight into the machinations ...
Agnes Grey
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Book Club Notes for Agnes Grey by Charlotte Bronte Book Summary Published in 1877, Anne Brontë's first novel exposes with remarkable realism the hardships and exploitation endured by governesses in Victorian England. In a narrative that drew heavily on her own experience, Brontë's goal was not to amuse or to entertain but, as Agnes Grey says, to benefit those ...
Alice in Wonderland (Book of the Film)
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Book Club Notes for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll Book Summary In his diary on July 4, 1862, Lewis Carroll wrote, 'Duckworth and I made an expedition up the river to Godstow with the three Liddells: we had tea on the bank there, and did not reach Christ Church again till quarter past eight, ...
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
Reading Notes
Book Club Notes for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll Book Summary In his diary on July 4, 1862, Lewis Carroll wrote, 'Duckworth and I made an expedition up the river to Godstow with the three Liddells: we had tea on the bank there, and did not reach Christ Church again till quarter past eight, ...
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