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Showing posts with label read aloud. Show all posts

Wednesday's Literary Lunch


Relax in your lunch hour with a good book - read aloud to you!
You are welcome to bring your lunch to the Southern Lounge at 1pm on Wednesday 6 June, 2012 where Melinda will read you a short story to match the 2012 National Year of Reading theme of "Dream".
Will they live happily ever after? or Will there be a shocking conclusion?
These stories read aloud on the first Wednesday of each month are for adults - moderate language may be used.
This is a free event, no bookings necessary.

Literary Lunch in June

Relax in your lunch break with a good book - read aloud to you!
Will they live happily ever after? or Will there be a shocking conclusion?
You are welcome to bring your lunch to the Southern Lounge at 1pm on Wednesday 6 June, 2012 where Melinda will read you a short story to match the 2012 National Year of Reading theme of "Dream".
These stories read aloud on the first Wednesday of each month are for adults - moderate language may be used.
This is a free event, no bookings necessary.

Literary lunch

Relax in your lunch break with a good book - read aloud to you!
You are welcome to bring your lunch to the Southern Lounge at 1pm on Wednesday 6 June, 2012 where Melinda will read you a short story to match the 2012 National Year of Reading theme of "Dream".
These stories read aloud on the first Wednesday of each month are for adults - moderate language may be used.
This is a free event, no bookings necessary.
Will they live happily ever after? or will there be a shocking conclusion?

Lunch Time Read Aloud for Adults


How often have you read stories to your children, grandchildren or brothers & sisters and wished someone would do the same for you?

In celebration of the National Year of Reading, library staff are reading aloud adult stories at lunch time.So bring your lunch, settle in, relax and be entertained on the first Wednesday of each month.

Last month Dianne (from Interlibrary Loans) read several shorter stories, mostly from Australian collections.

Bag Limit - a short, sharp story about duck hunters and ghostly spirits AND The Rock Lobster Club - a young man is dismissive of his father's safe, boring life as a newsagent in the suburbs. He moves to the city and tries life in the fast lane. He comes unstuck when trying to be cooler than he is. Both from the collection Under Stones by Bob Franklin.

The Rip by Robert Drewe. A dad and his estranged daughter stroll along a beach the morning after a shark attack. At the expense of his fragile relationship with his daughter he goes into the water to help a woman who falls in a rip.

Melinda read a funny poem so you could have a laugh and shift around in your chairs.
Camel College by Matthew Crompton. A man travelling in India despises the country, but comes to understand and love it after a tour guide explains his Camel College philosophy. From The best travel writing 2011.

How I met my daughter / Max Barry from the Herding Kites collection. A couple have fertility problems and follow a prescribed pattern in an attempt to fall pregnant. When their daughter eventually arrives, dad feels shut out. Tragedy strikes, and the dad has to learn to look after his daughter whilst his wife is in hospital. Can he manage a close relationshipwith both his wife and his daughter - or only one or the other?

At an extra read aloud which was scheduled in celebration of Seniors Week Melinda (our Children's Librarian) read A Man for All Seasons. An Australian Story about rugby league coach Wayne Bennett. Followed by a clever poem, The Death of Reading by crime writer Jeffrey Deaver. Then a good murder story - Lamb to the slaughter by Roald Dahl.

On the 4 April starting at 1pm, come along and hear Jacinta, our Reference Librarian read her selection.

Throughout this year, on the first Wednesday of the month, bring your lunch and listen to a variety of library staff read their favourites.

Wednesdays 1pm - 1.45pm, Sutherland Library - Southern Lounge

See you on the 4th April.

2012 The National Year of Reading