Glebe and Inner West Book Club

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Sydney, Australia Founded on Oct 14, 2024 Glebe and Inner West Book Club, Meet Up

Hello Bibliophiles and Readers,

We are a book club that meets once a month 7pm third Thursday at Gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe. Walk through the bookstore and up the four stairs to the back.

Books are chosen two months in advance and chat goes from one hour to two hours. Glebe because of ease of public transport and two hour parking in the Broadway shopping centre and some side streets.

Books can be chosen from all over the place but prefer books with more substance for more substantive chat. Book selection will be an ongoing issue that we will resolve together. Some suggestions are choosing a book from a different …

Upcoming Events

Apr 17

Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 7:00 PM

Public eventAnyone who has access to the group can see the event, description, location, comments, photos, and RSVPs. Orbital by Samantha Harvey (Booker Winner)

79 Glebe Point Rd 79 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, Australia, 2037

Meet at 7pm. Phone 0423105697. Sydney Writers Festival will be on later in May so good to chat about that festival.Synopsis:
Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft above the earth. They are there to collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day. Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches …

Hosted by: Njal H Organizer

Thu, Apr 17, 2025 7:00 PM

Apr 17

Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 7:00 PM

Public eventAnyone who has access to the group can see the event, description, location, comments, photos, and RSVPs. The Safekeep by Jael Van Der Woulden

79 Glebe Point Rd 79 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, Australia, 2037

Hello bibliophiles,In post world war 2 Holland two wayward brothers have a straight laced sister. They love the house they grew up in. But another also has memories of that house. The interaction changes lives. A candidate for the Booker Prize last year.

Hosted by: Njal H Organizer

Thu, Apr 17, 2025 7:00 PM

Past Events

Thursday, Feb 20, 2025, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM AEDT

Beautiful World Where are You by Sally Rooney 20 February Cafe Otto

Hello book lovers,We are doing Sally Rooney's Beautiful World Where Are You for February. We will meet 7pm Thursday 20 February at Cafe Otto 79 Glebe Point Road Glebe. Suggestions for next books welcome. Synopsis below:

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young--but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they …

Thursday, Nov 21, 2024, 7:00 PM AEDT

Charlotte Wood Stoneyard Devotional (and Jane Harper's The Dry)

I shall be at Gleebooks Cafe from 645pm Thursday November 21 if anyone wants to chat about the book club. Gleebooks cafe is all the way through Gleebooks until you can go no further. Gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Road Glebe. We will start at 7pm. Bring your wit, sense of social propriety and what you want to discuss about these novels. We will also discuss choices for future novels.