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10 Year Pub Crawl
Tough Guy Book Club was born on a pub crawl through Brunswick, Victoria in August 2013, we reckoned the best way to celebrate the club turning 10 would be for each chapter of TBGC hold a pub crawl through their town – so that’s exactly what we did. Throughout the month of August…
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Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse (1927)
This month we are reading Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse. Grab a copy and get reading.
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Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse (1927)
Steppenwolf takes us on a profound exploration of the human psyche, offering a lens through which we can examine the inner struggles faced by men in the modern age. While Hesse's literary craftsmanship is undeniable, the book can be quite a heavy read, as it delves into the…
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A Long Petal Of The Sea - Isabel Allende (2019)
Our review will be up shortly.
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Goon Profile - Thomas Giles
Name: Thomas Giles Chapter: Gold Coast Chapter - President Who are you: I’m 36 and still don't know for sure. Son, Brother, Father, Punk Rock Warlord. Protector of the principles of science and logic. Cricket tragic and closet Pyromaniac. How long have you been with TGBC: 6 years…
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A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway (1964)
Our review will be up soon.
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A Long Petal of the Sea - Isabel Allende (2019)
What a curious mixture of a novel is this book. At once a page turner and at some junctures, a must put down book. If I may be permitted a quote so soon, "Between thirty and forty people died every day, first the children from dysentery, then the elderly from pneumonia, and later…
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Shadowboxing - Tony Birch (2006)
In June, we read Shadowboxing by Tony Birch.
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A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway (1964)
* “ If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”* A Moveable Feast is a classic example of an older author looking back to his earlier years in a ‘fictional’…
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Shadowboxing - Tony Birch (2006)
The trouble with Tony Birch’s semi-autobiographical first book, Shadowboxing, a linked group of short stories set in the pre gentrified Fitzroy working class slums of the late 60s and early 70s is not that it isn’t good. It is a fine read, exemplary in its exploration of the…
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Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri (1999)
The book is a cohesive compilation of beautifully written and astutely observed short stories. The thread running through the book is the is the exploration of the complexities of human relationships, particularly within the context of cultural and personal displacement.
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TGBC Monthly Challenge - #StraightArms
Tough Guy Book Club is more than just a bunch of guys meeting at the pub once a month. We do a lot of other stuff outside of chapter meetings of course, and one of those things is our monthly challenge. But, since we are a book club that meets at the pub, sometimes it’s good to…
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