Books are ace.
Feb. 14th, 2006 06:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maxcelcatDear Diary,
I'm the secretary of a CAE Book Group, we had our first meeting of 2006 last night.
No less than four new people rocked up, which was interesting to say the least. An American woman who we got to explain how she got here (a boy), an English woman who also explained how she arrived here. So then I had to explain how I'd escaped from North Balwyn (see if you can guess which part of that page is my edit, assuming it doesn't get clipped out in a matter of minutes) and migrated to Northcote (I've had a go at that page in the past as well) - all of 12 kilometres. One of the other newbies made a living for years as a singer, mostly at Jewish weddings. And the fourth new arrival lives in... North Balwyn...
We had a lively discussion, some of which was actually about the book, "The Road from Coorain". Don't go read it, it's an annoying Australian memoir aimed squarely at the American market.
Nice to see this mob again, although I feel a bit weird sometimes. There are about 8-9 people in the group, all of whom are women except for me and one other guy. What is going on there? Surely men read books! Someone must be buying them all!
We quickly established there was about one degree of separation between one of the newbies and long time member Claire, as usual. And most of the new arrivals appeared to work in child protection or something related. Hardcore stuff.
Unrelated note to self: post Henry Rollins review here sometime.
In other unrelated news, what the Rumsfeld???
I'm the secretary of a CAE Book Group, we had our first meeting of 2006 last night.
No less than four new people rocked up, which was interesting to say the least. An American woman who we got to explain how she got here (a boy), an English woman who also explained how she arrived here. So then I had to explain how I'd escaped from North Balwyn (see if you can guess which part of that page is my edit, assuming it doesn't get clipped out in a matter of minutes) and migrated to Northcote (I've had a go at that page in the past as well) - all of 12 kilometres. One of the other newbies made a living for years as a singer, mostly at Jewish weddings. And the fourth new arrival lives in... North Balwyn...
We had a lively discussion, some of which was actually about the book, "The Road from Coorain". Don't go read it, it's an annoying Australian memoir aimed squarely at the American market.
Nice to see this mob again, although I feel a bit weird sometimes. There are about 8-9 people in the group, all of whom are women except for me and one other guy. What is going on there? Surely men read books! Someone must be buying them all!
We quickly established there was about one degree of separation between one of the newbies and long time member Claire, as usual. And most of the new arrivals appeared to work in child protection or something related. Hardcore stuff.
Unrelated note to self: post Henry Rollins review here sometime.
In other unrelated news, what the Rumsfeld???
