"The Plains" by Gerald Murnane (Dec 13, 2018) [change of date!]

There was quite a lot to say about The Lebs by Michal Mohammed Ahmad.  We thought that while it was nicely written it lacked an overall story to tie it all together, it just felt like a string of "this happened, then this happened ..." rather than a coherent story.  That made a bit more sense at the end when in the epilogue it emerges that it was written as a thesis.

The way he describes his school life was really vivid and engaging, the swearing and the relentless vying for social kudos and the discomfort of trying to find your own identity.

Our next book is The Plains by Gerald Murnane.  There was a long discussion about which book we'd do next and eventually we settled on fiction rather than non-fiction which I think was probably a better decision and more in the spirit of the book group.

The next book group meeting – the last of the year – will be at The All Nations Hotel at 8:00pm on December 5 December 13.