Our Reading List (top most recent)
- "The Bright Forever" by Lee Martin (Mac)
- "Out Stealing Horses" by Per Petterson (Jase)
- "Other Country" by Stephen Scourfield (Noelsy)
- "A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian" by Marina Lewycka (Ross)
- "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz (Martin)
- "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov (Mac)
- "Dreams of Speaking" by Gail Jones (Jase)
- "Skin Lane" by Neil Bartlett (Alex)
- "An Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England" by Brock Clarke (Noelsy)
- "The Stone Gods" by Jeanette Winterson (Martin)
- "The Secret River" by Kate Grenville (Dobsie)
- "What Happened to Gay Life?" by Robert Reynolds (Dobsie)
- "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy (Mac)
- "The Sunday Philosophy Club" by Alexander McCall Smith (Alex)
- "The Nubian Prince" by Juan Bonilla (Noelsy)
- "The Third Brother" by Nick McDonell (Martin)
- "Equus" by Peter Shaffer (Dobsie)
- "We Need to Talk about Kevin" by Lionel Shriver (Mac)
- "The Ressurectionist" by James Bradley (Carl - since left)
- "The Unknown Terrorist" by Richard Flanagan (Jase)
- "Omar and Enzo in the Big Talking Book" by Colin Batrouney (Martin)
- "Eucalyptus" by Murray Bail (Mikey - since left)
- "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" by Mark Haddon (Martin)
Monday, January 26, 2009
Happy New year sistas
Thanks to Mac for coordinating and re-coordinating the delivery of the first book for 2009, finally it has arrived! I have taken it upon myself to commence the New Year in pink. There is a new image too, with a man!
Saturday, July 26, 2008
A Farewell To Alex
It was with great shock that all us sisters recently learned of the imminent departure of Sister Alex. He has decided to return to the moors of Old Angleterre to take up his quill where he left off (much to our chagrin).
Alex has been a fabulous and rather tall member of The Brontë Sisters' Bookclub and we are going to have a bitch of a time replacing him! Thanks Alex for all the fun times, the highs and lows, the laughs, the tears...We will miss you, you old smugs, but keep in touch (via this blog, par exemple).
Always remember, never forget: you are a Brontë!
Your sistaz XX
Alex has been a fabulous and rather tall member of The Brontë Sisters' Bookclub and we are going to have a bitch of a time replacing him! Thanks Alex for all the fun times, the highs and lows, the laughs, the tears...We will miss you, you old smugs, but keep in touch (via this blog, par exemple).
Always remember, never forget: you are a Brontë!
Your sistaz XX
Thursday, June 19, 2008
dobbsie would if he could...
hey guys, who posted the link below? it doesn't seem to work. you will have to copy the address in the the 'link' box provided on the posting page.
sort it out, quick sticks, as i can hardly wait to see it!
dobbsie.
Dobbsy will no doubt be eyeing the gowns with a view to a future drag version of Book Club.
Labels:
bitches,
bronte sisters,
gowns,
rivalry
The ideal future Bronte Sisters book?
I have actually read this book. It did the rounds some years ago as a dirty paper back found in a second hand bookshop in Glebe. It is not fiction, per se but down and dirty gay porn. The climax has the gay character gang raped by a couple of well hung black men. No stereotypes there...
This book was recommended to me when I was updating my Bronte Sisters reading list on my Facebook account (well, if we can have a blog, I can see no reason why we shouldn't have a Wastebook presence too)... could this be the perfect future Bronte Sisters book? Or does some dodgy database somewhere think that all gay men are interested in is crime, sex and pathology? Are we interested in anything else?
About The Back Passage:
"A seaside village, an English country house, a family of wealthy eccentrics and their equally peculiar servants, a determined detective — all the ingredients are here for a cozy Agatha Christie-style whodunit. But wait — Edward “Mitch” Mitchell is no Hercule Poirot, and The Back Passage is no Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Mitch is a handsome, insatiable 22-year-old hunk who never lets a clue stand in the way of a steamy encounter, whether it’s with the local constabulary, the house secretary, or his school chum and fellow athlete Boy Morgan, who becomes his Watson when they’re not busy boffing each other."
Come on, please tell, who recommended this book?
Dobbsie.
This book was recommended to me when I was updating my Bronte Sisters reading list on my Facebook account (well, if we can have a blog, I can see no reason why we shouldn't have a Wastebook presence too)... could this be the perfect future Bronte Sisters book? Or does some dodgy database somewhere think that all gay men are interested in is crime, sex and pathology? Are we interested in anything else?
About The Back Passage:
"A seaside village, an English country house, a family of wealthy eccentrics and their equally peculiar servants, a determined detective — all the ingredients are here for a cozy Agatha Christie-style whodunit. But wait — Edward “Mitch” Mitchell is no Hercule Poirot, and The Back Passage is no Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Mitch is a handsome, insatiable 22-year-old hunk who never lets a clue stand in the way of a steamy encounter, whether it’s with the local constabulary, the house secretary, or his school chum and fellow athlete Boy Morgan, who becomes his Watson when they’re not busy boffing each other."
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
wuthering heights
Weekly Feature!
This is the very first week of a new weekly feature on Bronte Sisters Blog.
And what better way to start than with the original version of 'Wuthering Heights' by Kate Bush.
Check it out. Every week we will feature a different 'performer' doing their version of 'Wuthering Heights'. But for now, here is Kate.
To whet your appetites, here is the first verse which you will need as Kate is unintelligible
Out on the wiley, windy moors
We'd roll and fall in green.
You had a temper like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy.
How could you leave me,
When I needed to possess you?
I hated you. I loved you, too.
Bad dreams in the night
You told me I was going to lose the fight,
Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering
Wuthering Heights.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Congratulations!
Congratulations, we have a winner! Sadly, though we could not get Maggie to supply cabernet jelly. She only does quince jelly. To collect your prize (whoever you are, but I suspect it is Noelsey) send a self addressed, stamped envelope to PO Box 490, Surry Hills, 2010.
What if I've only read 5 of the books??
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