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TGBC Monthly Challange - #NewGoon
As 2021 came to a close, we had our last TGBC meeting, and our last challenge of the year. It’s no secret that December and January are big recruiting drives for us. These are the months where a lot of guys who aren’t yet involved in the club decide they want to read more. So…
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IQ84 - Haruki Murakami (long read)
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TGBC In the news - Skippers Magazine
Hey, remember when we got a writeup in Tradie magazine ? Remember print magazines? Neither did we! But not only do they still exist, there's apparently more than one of them because we're in the news again. This time it's an article in Skippers, the inflight magazine of the…
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The Age of Reason - Jean-Paul Sartre (1945)
I’ve been attracted to existentialism ever since I was expressing my personality via Radiohead lyrics on my pencil case and Evangelion posters on my wall. So, I was interested to try this book out. It wasn’t what I expected. This novel takes place over a single weekend in which…
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TGBC Monthly Challenge - #LastChances
Every month at Tough Guy Book Club, we set ourselves a challenge. Not just the challenge of getting a bunch of men to read a piece of fiction, which is hard enough. We're talking about meaningful, worthwhile shit you can do with your free time. Make a new friend, catch up with an…
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Beechworth Chapter Opens
Another month, another new Tough Guy Book Club chapter. That’s not to say we’re only opening one new chapter a month (it seems like it’s been at least new one every month), it’s just that between reading books, hitting the pub, and generally just enjoying Tough Guy Book Club…
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Last Orders - Graham Swift (1996)
Last orders is the story of 4 men taking the ashes of their friend Jack Dodds through to Margate, save for his wife who refuses to abandon her duties. Spanning almost 50 years of their history together in post-war London, the book explores themes of love, loss, sacrifice, sense…
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TGBC Monthly Challenge - #ShowUsSomething21
TGBC is a book club. Each month the club sets a challenge. Beyond reading, the benefits of being part of this book club are legion; a sense of belonging, the friendships, interaction both with those of like mind and those who aren't. Another benefit is the product of a club-wide…
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TGBC Monthly Challenge - #SpreadTheWord
We reckon we’ve got a pretty bloody good thing going at Tough Guy Book Club. A bunch of goons getting together every month at the pub to catch up with some rowdy conversation and discuss the month’s book, what could be better? Do you think we keep that shit to ourselves? Heck no…
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Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel (2014)
One of the founding, though little remarked upon premises of Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, is the idea that, regardless of what fate may befall humankind, the works of William Shakespeare will endure and even have something useful to offer. It’s an interesting idea…
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Dubbo Chapter Opens
Dubbo is famous for lots of things. It has an observatory, a cool old gaol, some limestone caves, a whopping great zoo, and now most importantly, a chapter of Tough Guy Book Club. "I've been part of this club for two years," says Dan Mowbray, prez of TGBC Dubbo, "There are two…
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Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut (1973)
"Like nothing you've ever read before (TM)". What happens when you mix a car salesman who is losing his mind, a released convict with no place in society, and a pulp author whose work is lost in pornographic magazines? Utter chaos, glimmers of the human condition, and judgements…
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