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Post by braided-rug on Jan 29, 2007 12:59:56 GMT 10
" CAE Book Groups are a great way to satisfy your passion for the written word. Get together with other readers to share your impressions and opinions in a discussion group dedicated to taking a closer look at books. We provide books on loan: choose from our catalogue of over 1,000 titles. No buying, no teachers, no homework – just the luxury of exploring your ideas at your own pace. More than 11,000 people meet each month to stretch their minds in a CAE Book Group. Wherever you are in mainland Australia – capital city or remote regional area – we can supply books and notes to you. 'Friendships have blossomed and new interests have been explored. Ideas and opinions have been shared, examined, relished, celebrated. The life experience of our diverse group has been a rich source in our many animated discussions.' – Sandy, Healesville Group with a View, Victoria" www.cae.edu.au/?infosection=bookgroups |
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Post by braided-rug on Jan 29, 2007 13:03:39 GMT 10
"Books authors and notes
Fiction | Cultures | Lives | Non-fiction | Memoir | Art | History | Philosophy
We have more than 1000 titles available for loan, ranging from the latest international literary prize winners to first time local authors. Each year our staff of dedicated readers and notewriters hand-pick 40 new titles to add balance and diversity to our current list. Books are chosen for their potential to create and sustain dynamic discussion. CAE Book Group members also recommend titles they’d like to see in our catalogue.
Something which distinguishes our program from others is that we provide a set of specially commissioned discussion notes to accompany the book. The notes also include a number of questions – an excellent starting point for discussion!
Four CAE Book Groups and their most recent year of reading
Como Booklovers (WA)
Consolations of Philosophy
Alain de Botton
Journey from Venice
Ruth Cracknell
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
Flaws in the Glass
Patrick White
Desert Flower
Waris Dirie & Catherine Miller
Beirut Blues
Hanan al-Shaykh
Working for Rupert
Hugh Lunn
Malinche’s Conquest
Anna Lanyon
Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence
Doris Pilkington/Nugi Garimara
Death in Venice
Thomas Mann
Oscar Wilde
Richard Ellmann
Riddells Creek 1(VIC)
Half A Lifetime
Judith Wright
Lovesong
Elizabeth Jolley
Galileo’s Daughter
Dava Sobel
Rose Boys
Peter Rose
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Resilience
Anne Deveson
The Way We Live Now
Robert Manne
Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow
Peter Høeg
Letters to Alice
Fay Weldon
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
Charters Towers: Club Vibes (QLD)
Chocolat
Joanne Harris
The Rector’s Wife
Joanna Trollope
Cider with Rosie
Laurie Lee
Almost French
Sarah Turnbull
A Fortunate Life
A. B. Facey
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
Louis de Bernières
When We Were Orphans
Kazuo Ishiguro
Postcards
Annie E. Proulx
Ada
Vladimir Nabokov
Another World
Pat Barker
The Many-Coloured Land
Christopher Koch
Fish Creek – Waratah (VIC)
How to Be Good
Nick Hornby
One Thousand Chestnut Trees
Mira Stout
Swimming with the Jellyfish
Vicki Hastrich
The Pillow Fight
Matthew Condon
Our Father Who Art in the Tree
Judy Pascoe
The Rooms in My Mother’s House
Olga Lorenzo
The Moor’s Last Sigh
Salman Rushdie
My Sister’s Child
Maggie & Linda Kirkman
Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier
A Strange and Sublime Address
Amit Chaudhuri
Angry White Pyjamas
Robert Twigger"
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