Lilifields Flower Merchants & Cafe

Originally advertised on the www.mamyda.com website. To be held at Lilifields Flower Merchants & Cafe, 210 Oxford Street, Paddington, NSW, 2021. Want another reason to come together on a Sunday morning or afternoon with friends? Would you like to learn more about this amazing world, or get your imagination ... (more)going full steam? Are you in search of that life balance, between work and personal time? Would you like to read more on a casual basis? If you answered Yes, then maybe The Sydney Sunday Bookclub is the thing for you! The Sydney Sunday Bookclub will meet once every six Sundays at a relaxed cafe environment. When the group comes together on the Sunday, expect to be welcomed with a friendly atmosphere, where we will discuss subjects/themes/characters/styles of writing (and no doubt PLUS more) related to the book of the time over a cuppa tea, coffee or something cool. At each of our meetings we will discuss which book to read next, so if you have a book you have been wanting to read for sometime (or know of a few books) please make up a list, maybe with some notes as to what you've been told about the book or reasons why you think it would be nice to read. Our First Book: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You - Peter Cameron Review from Amazon: "Though he’s been accepted by Brown University, 18-year-old James isn’t sure he wants to go to college. What he really wants is to buy a nice house in a small town somewhere in the Midwest—Indiana, perhaps. In the meantime, however, he has a dull, make-work job at his thrice-married mother’s Manhattan art gallery, where he finds himself attracted to her assistant, an older man named John. In a clumsy attempt to capture John’s attention, James winds up accused of sexual harassment! A critically acclaimed author of adult fiction, Cameron makes a singularly auspicious entry into the world of YA with this beautifully conceived and written coming-of-age novel that is, at turns, funny, sad, tender, and sophisticated. James makes a memorable protagonist, touching in his inability to connect with the world but always entertaining in his first-person account of his New York environment, his fractured family, his disastrous trip to the nation’s capital, and his ongoing bouts with psychoanalysis. In the process he dramatizes the ambivalences and uncertainties of adolescence in ways that both teen and adult readers will savor and remember.” If you have any little ones, feel free to bring them along. The tea garden will keep them amazed!