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February 16, 2010 from 4pm to 5pm – Mosman Library
March 8, 2010 from 7pm to 9pm – Mosman Library
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This was a Desperate Housewives mystery (with a twist) which centres around a mystery-only book club in a wealthy suburb in Connecticut! I loved the chapter titles run monthly (almost) and focusse…
Tagged: murder, mystery, people, rich, clubs
Started by Jenni Wong in Fiction A-Z (General) Feb 7.
This picture of the team that built Data General's Eagle minicomputer was taken in March 1980, a few weeks before the machine shipped under its market name, the MV/8000. - Wired magazine This Puli…
Tagged: machines, engineers, computing, computers, technology
Started by Bern in Non-fiction Feb 6.
The Grapes of Wrath is set in the 1930s during the Great Depression. The story describes the journey of the Joad family, who are forced to leave their farm because of severe drought and travel to Cal…
Started by Tuesday evening book club in Historical Feb 3.
This book was an excellent account of one of the strangest places on earth. Entertaining, riveting, it is a must-read for any back-packer.
Started by Read, Review & Win in Non-fiction Feb 3.
400 pages on the movie "All About Eve"; an overstretch of at least 200 pages. It feels laboured and slightly fraudulent - even the origins of the character Eve don't ring true. One good point is th…
Started by Read, Review & Win in Non-fiction Feb 3.
A classic I missed in younger days and quite delightful. Mrs Gaskell gives a most intimate view of life in Victorian England with a gentle humour. She depicts a struggle to survive in a tight-laced…
Started by Read, Review & Win in Fiction A-Z (General) Feb 3.
For anyone interested in Modern China, Abrahm Lustgarten's book is an essential read. It paints broad and intimate pictures of the PRC's policies and people caught up in them, whilst telling the re…
Started by Read, Review & Win in Non-fiction Feb 2.
A crisply structured, well-paced novel full of intense scenes followed by rather banal descriptions of American daily life. Pleasantly improbable like the best of Hollywood blockbusters,…
Started by Read, Review & Win in Fiction A-Z (General) Feb 1.
Supposedly set in 1936, where 19 year old Kitty answers an ad for a "good plain cook, broad outlook essential" to work in an "artistic household" in Sussex. Kitty doesn't let the small fact that she…
Tagged: Sussex, bohemian, relationships, England, rural
Started by Jenni Wong in Fiction A-Z (General) Jan 28.
The story of the men and women who made necessary the coining of a new word - 'scientist' - first inscribed in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1840. The principle players are Joseph Banks, William H…
Tagged: science, god, astronomy, chemistry, history
Started by Bern in Biography Jan 22.
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