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Goon Profile - Hugh Dircks
Name: Hugh Dircks Chapter: Northcote What is your story? Country boy who moved to the city in my late teens. My Dad was a rural church pastor and my Mum a high school english teacher. I love food - cooking it, eating it, the science and the history of it. And I've always loved to…
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Good Material - Dolly Alderton (2024)
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TGBC Monthly Challenge - Garden26
Reading is not a crime. Taking time for yourself is not a crime. Going to the pub on a Wednesday to hang out with your mates is a bit naughty, but last time we checked, it’s not a crime. Tough Guy Book Club is a thoroughly law abiding organisation. All we want to do is make you…
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Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan (2021)
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCuller (1940)
Part of the value in joining the Tough Guy Book Club is being able to share your thoughts on a book - knowing that everyone at the table has gone through the same experience. Although there are individual perspectives, there’s also a sense of connectedness, of camaraderie, and of…
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The Pearl - John Steinbeck (1947)
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Goon Profile - Courtney Hicks
Name: Courtney Hicks Chapter: Auckland What is your story? I grew up in a small town surrounded by market gardens. Wanting to see more of the world and visit the sites I read about in history books I spent several years living and travelling overseas. Recently I moved home to…
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TGBC Monthly Challenge - #ArtGang26
They say every face tells a story, but a lot of us tend to ignore the one in the mirror. Each month, Tough Guy Book Club has a monthly challenge. An opportunity for our goons to add a page to their story, push themselves out of their comfort zone, or try something new. This…
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Cherrywood - Jock Serong (2024)
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Goon Profile - Nick Pitts
Name: Nick Pitts Chapter: Lygon St, previously Collingwood, Melbourne CBD, Brunswick East, and a dozen others. What is your story? I'm originally from the sharks and crocs and bitey things part of North QLD, when I was a kid my dad sorted me out with a Pratchett or two, and a…
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Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis (1949)
This is the story of Zorba, in all of his complexities, and about his friendship with the nameless male narrator, `the boss’. Zorba is the sun, fuelling the drama of the narrative, his light shining across the island of Crete. The narrator - the man with the money - who owns a…
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January Catch-ups
Tough Guy Book Club does not meet in January. This is not a fun tradition with a cool backstory like so many other things in our club. It’s simply because our traditional meeting slot, the first Wednesday of the month, would fall a couple of days into the New Year, when Goons are…
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