Brisbane Writers Festival

Hullo again Kenmore Book Club.

Well the Brisbane Writers Festival was a huge success and I went to every session that I could (I think about 10 or 11 in the end). The topics were as diverse as "Boy's Own Adventures Through the Oil rigs" (my title) with Paul Carter - a brilliantly funny young man who fell into writing after he failed his psychiatric evaluation, through to a gut-wrenching story of a young Newsweek journalist who lost his fiancee after she was targeted and killed by the Taliban while she was undertaking aid work in Baghdad. I think that there wasn't a dry eye in the auditorium after Michael finished sharing his story with us.

I was also lucky enough to meet with 5 of the "One Book: Many Brisbanes" authors and they were genuinely delighted that we were reviewing their book for book club.

I will be bringing the program along with me to next Wednesday's meeting to share with you all and to talk about some very exciting, and amazing books I discovered.

Shortly I'll post the books that the Book Club decided upon for October. There's a couple of completely different ones so that we can talk about more than one book. Both are available in large numbers at the Brisbane City Council Library.

Warmest regards to you all and see you on Wednesday 1st October.

Regards

Kate