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Men Without Women - Ernest Hemingway (1927)
First published in 1927, Men Without Women is a collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway. This collection offers vignettes of life, snippets fleetingly seen as though we were travelling through the scenes of the stories. This was my first time reading Hemingway, I had…
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Hemingway Month 2018
Every year we have Hemingway Month. We do this because he is interesting. He’s an icon of 20th century masculinity, with all the drinking, women and guns but he’s also a mean, misogynistic alcoholic who was worried about how much of a man he was seen as by others. He won both a…
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Canberra Chapter Opens
When surveyor Charles Scrivener was charged with finding a suitable site for our fledgling nation’s capital in 1904, little could he have imagined what was to follow over one hundred years later. Anyone who has ever been on a school excursion to Canberra (and, let’s face it…
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The Eye of the Sheep - Sofie Laguna (2014)
If someone was to ask me if I wished to read a story about the cycle of domestic violence through the eyes of a young family member further stigmatised by a developmental disability, I would have probably retreated to my current comfort zone of Scandi thrillers. This is what I…
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Now recruiting in Adelaide
We have chapters all up the east coast of Australia but now it is time to move west. We are looking for people who live in Adelaide and are interested in helping us get a chapter off the ground there. If you know anyone that you think would be keen, please pass this information…
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Goon Profile – "Clean" Pete Collings
Name: "Clean" Pete Collings **Chapter: Castlemaine East Who are you: An ordinary bloke with extraordinary dreams. I'm also a proud husband to an awesome woman and father to two awesome teenage girls. How long have you been with TGBC: My first meeting was in August 2017 (I hadn't…
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (1979)
An over the top, ridiculous, million mile an hour adventure with surprising glimpses of deep philosophical musings on the profound and the everyday. The first installation in Douglas Adams Trilogy of Five, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy sets the scene and tantalises the…
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That Deadman Dance - Kim Scott (2010)
Noongar writer Kim Scott conjures an unwritten history. Set in the years following white settlement in Western Australia, our narrator Bobby Wabalanginy nails it when he realises of his new colonial cohabiters; ‘we all learned your stories, but you were never interested in…
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As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner (1930)
As I Lay Dying – Southern Gothic or Hillbilly Vaudeville? I loved this book! My chapter (Williamstown) discussed it at length, but it wasn’t till I reread it at home in preparation for this review that I discovered how much I had missed the first reading. The main questions about…
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)
The trouble is… it isn’t very good. Really? But it’s immensely famous! A classic! What sacrilege is this? What was the problem? Was there something wrong with the story, the plot? Not at all. Each chapter formed a well-crafted little crime drama, complete with creative little…
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East of Eden - John Steinbeck (1952)
It is without doubt that John Steinbeck’s East of Eden is a daunting novel to undertake simply due to its sheer size. Weighing in at just over 700 pages, Steinbeck’s 1952 work details the interwoven stories of two families as they grapple with life's greatest ambiguities…
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Point to Pinnacle (The Outcome)
I didn’t sleep. I had an early start and I was worried I’d sleep in. I was too hot under the medium thickness spring/autumn doona and kept stealing sweaty glances at the clock. 23:17 00:43 03:56 04:32 I got up before my alarm and turned the coffee machine on. It clicked and…
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