National Reading Hour

National Reading Hour
6-7 pm Saturday 25th August 2012

in the Library

Open to everyone - free of charge

Bring your favourite book or grab one off the shelves

and READ IT.

Groups will be reading aloud:

classics

poetry

non-fiction

crime fiction

romantic fiction

fantasy

children's fiction

Join in or read silently.
Bring the kids in their pyjamas.



Superstition Quiz Night

Superstition Quiz Night

7 pm Friday 13th July
in the Library

The black cat challenges you!

Make up a table of 6 or come as a single.
Bring your own nibbles
& a basket of supper to share
Tickets $5 each at the library
includes a glass of wine.
prizes! prizes! prizes!

Going Down With the Ship

Bound by Books, a get-together of all Mount Gambier Book Groups, is holding a panel discussion entitled
Going Down With the Ship
Sunday 27th May 2012
in the Leadlight Room Main Corner
(courtesy of Mount Gambier City Council)

with an emphasis on Titanic literature - fiction and non-fiction.

The panel, lead by Diana Wiseman will discuss

The Captain's Daughter by Leah Fleming

and two non-fiction books.

Book groups will present their reports on recent reading and

supper will be served by U3A Book Group.

All welcome.

If you love reading and discussing books. please come along.

Note the venue change:

Reconciliation Week will be taking place in the Library and also the subject has changed from A World Without Bees at the panel's request.

Chocolate and Book Groups

Chocolate !

Alister Haigh CEO is going to tell us all about Haigh's Chocolates,
from its early beginnings in Mount Gambier to its present world-wide operations.
There will be tastings!!

Wednesday 1st March 7-9pm
In the Main Corner Theatre.
Admission $10 includes chocolate! Tickets from Library and Gallery.

This is event is a joint enterprise of
Friends of the Library and Friends of the Gallery.

Bound by Books

Open to all members of book groups and anyone interested in reading and talking about books.
Admission by gold coin donation.

Schedule for 2012

Thursday 1st March 7-9pm

What is a Hero?
Discussion by the panel of Sir Douglas Mawson
with reference to Peter Fitzsimons' new book Mawson
and other Antarctic explorers
Supper by Santiago Book Group

Sunday 10th June 1.30 - 3.30pm
Environment Month

Saturday 25th August 6-8pm
6-7pm is Australia-wide Reading Hour.
We will be part of that and continue on a little longer

Thursday 6th December 7-9pm
Suggestions for holiday reading by the panel
and audience.

 

December 2011

Jewellery Raffle

First prize: magnificent necklace of jet, coral and mother-of-pearl

donated by Clockwise Jewellers

valued at $490

2nd prize: man's Pulsar watch donated by Henri Post

value $90

3rd prize: tongue ring and nose stud donated by Ian Buck Jewellers

valued at $50
Raffle drawn on Sunday 11th December during
the Arts & Crafts Market.



Advance Notice!

Keep Wednesday 1st February 2012 clear
as we will be having a visit from

Alister Haigh CEO of Haigh's Chocolates.

Bound by Books September

Bound by Books

Afternoon Tea at the Library

for book groups and book-lovers.

Sunday 4th September at 1.30 pm

Bring:
a short report on your group’s recent reading Hear:   a forum discussion on Caleb’s Crossing by
Geraldine Brooks &
The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter
hosted by Diana Wiseman.

Once again, Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Geraldine Brooks takes an unlikely shard of little-known history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young Indian named Caleb from the island of Martha′s Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminously written, page turning tale of love and faith, magic and adventure.
The narrator of Caleb′s Crossing is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny island settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Possessed of a restless spirit and a quick and curious mind, Bethia yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. As often as she can, she slips away from the strictures of English society to explore the island′s glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At the age of twelve, she encounters the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a tentative, secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other.
Bethia′s father, Great Harbor′s well-meaning and charismatic minister, tries to convert the Wampanoag to his own strict Calvinism, awakening the wrath of the pawaaws, against whose shamanistic magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his pet projects becomes the education of Caleb. A year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb′s intellectual and spiritual crossing of cultures, with all its risks and losses, triumphs and turmoil.
Like Brooks′s beloved narrator Anna in Year of Wonders, Bethia proves an emotionally irresistible guide to the wild coasts of Martha′s Vineyard, the drafty lecture rooms of early Harvard and the intimate spaces of the human heart.



FOL Events for August 2011

Annual General Meeting

The AGM will be at 12 noon on Thursday 14th July 2011 in the Multi-Function Room at the Library.
All welcome!

Bring some lunch to share.

Wednesday 3rd August at 7pm Literary Singles Mingle

tickets at Library Desk $10+

supper by Friends

 

 

Wednesday 17th August at 7pm

Meet the Author—Nick Earls

author of ZigZag Street, Bachelor Kisses,
After January, 48 Shades of Brown

light supper by FOL, gold coin donation

Monday 29th August at 7pm

Meet the Author—Andrew Daddo

Flushed, Good Night Me, Youse Two, It's All Good, Muffin Top, Sprung Again, You're Dropped, Dacked 

Entertainment of Wiggles' songs.