A Month of Sundays: A Novel
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As much as this is a great opportunity for the group to make a personal connection, Adele hopes the women will get the chance to relax, enjoy the country surroundings and perhaps indulge in a few book related discussions. To move things along in this direction, each member of the book club has been asked to share a favourite book that best expresses who they are.
But, each member of the club is at turning point in their life, of varying degrees. The time away is the ideal opportunity for these women to take a good look at themselves and make some changes in their life before they depart the Blue Mountains retreat. Told with a delicate balance of insight, humour and character introspection, A Month of Sundays proved to be a lovely all round read. There was a feel good quality about this book, despite some of sad themes touched on in the novel. A Month of Sundays is a heart-warming tale that reminds us of the power of female friendships and how a love of books can definitely enrich your life.
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Although there is an accessible light touch approach to A Month of Sundays, it is quite a reflective style read. It will implore you to explore your own relationships, choices and make you realise that it is never too late in life to make some hard changes. I really admired this aspect of the novel. It is a hard process to scrutinize yourself in the way this group of women do, but the support and encouragement they received from each other was a joy to be a part of.
Byrski has always been a strong advocate for mature women and she takes care to ensure that they receive the full treatment in her book, rather than taking a back seat. Each of the four characters featured in the book are between 60 and 70 plus, so Byrski works hard to shine a light on the experiences of older women.
On the whole, I could still connect to these varied issues and themes, I was able to see some similar experiences in the older female figures in my own life family and friends. A Month of Sundays is a character driven novel, therefore there is plenty to discover about each of the ladies and even the gorgeous pet dog Clooney apt name!
As A Month of Sundays revolves around a book club, expect plenty of book related ground covered in this novel. I loved the whole concept of an online book club and how Byrski decided that these women had to finally meet after a decade of connecting online. Byrski has obviously conducted a great deal of research in this area and I feel like she has a passion for understanding this area, as it comes across quite clearly in this novel.
Personally, I loved the dialogue between the characters and their discussion of the books that was chosen to be very personal to them. On a side note, I would have loved a list of the books featured in A Month of Sundays to be included at the back of the novel, as I am keen to investigate the titles featured.
Start by marking “A Month of Sundays” as Want to Read: For over ten years, Ros, Adele, Judy and Simone have been in an online book club, but they have never met face to face. Liz Byrski is a writer and broadcaster with more than 40 years experience in the British and Australian. A Month of Sundays book. Read 93 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In this antic riff on Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, the Reverend T.
My final mention in this review of A Month of Sundays is the setting. Thank you Liz Byrski for featuring the Blue Mountains as the central stage for your book club retreat.
Likewise, it was a great idea to situate the four protagonists in different parts of Australia and have them all converge onto the central location of Sydney. It was a highlight to see Mandurah, the next suburb to where I live in Western Australia, featured so prominently in this novel. A heartfelt journey await readers of all ages should they choose to read A Month of Sundays.
This is the ideal winter warmer, as it ties together a memorable story revolving around books, female friendships and the final parting message, that it is never too late to embrace change. View all 8 comments. Jan 13, Dale Harcombe rated it really liked it. For years four women have been in an online book club. They talk about their books through Skype so they know what each other look like but have never met.
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That is until Adele proposes they meet together in The Blue Mountains. The plan is that over four weeks they will each share a book that is meaningful to them. Each person will bring four copies of the book. During the week, each woman will read the book choice and then discuss it on the Sunday. Ros, from Paddington Sydney, Adela from Mandura For years four women have been in an online book club. Ros also brings along her constant canine company, Clooney. And just maybe it will bring some changes for the future?
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From the lovely bookish cover, which made me think of a stay years ago at Varuna, I was quick to settle with this book and get to know the four women. I loved the back stories of each of the women, even though a couple did seem overly dramatic or unusual. I liked how different the women and their experiences are from each other. I loved the way they opened up to each other. I appreciated that the books were revealed to the reader each week and not given all at once.
A couple of the books mentioned I might need to get hold of to read. The setting of the Blue Mountains and little townships like Leura are beautifully described. Though I did wonder at one stage when one of the women had booked a cab to take her from the house in the Blue Mountains to Sydney airport.
To me that seemed a bit of a stretch, as it would have cost a fortune. I really enjoyed it. Just the sort of book to curl up with and just maybe find some of your own thoughts or experiences echoed in these pages.
Another great Liz Byrski book. View all 12 comments. Oct 26, Jeanette Lewis rated it it was amazing Shelves: aussie-authors. What a joy to read, Liz Brynski has done it again, a fabulous book. Many of those who read this book will be of a similar age to the 4 main female characters and are at the beginning of this journey for which will be able to identify with many aspects of the story.
The 4 women, Adele, Ros, Judy and Simone have been involved with an online book club and over time have developed a sixth sense to the personalities of each other. All are dealing with that time in life when new directions and changes are in the process of taking place and difficult but necessary decisions have to be made. Given her past history of continually running from one situation to another her business has been the only thing that has given her purpose in life.
Also, she has been unable to move on from personal relationships involving her ex but not divorced from her husband and his partner her former girlfriend, strangely this occurrence happens more than one would imagine, the need to hang on, the third wheel? Simone has been a successful teacher now retired she had taken up teaching Yoga which gives her a sense of calm holding at bay the inner churning of memories of youth and the unexplained disappearances of the two men she had grown up with and of the love she had felt from their mother Claire, love not experienced from her own parents.
This becomes an emotional roller coaster ride for Simone with some terrible truths being exposed. Adele just on retirement grappling with her own insecurities regarding her future organises the holiday where the 4 will meet for the first time in person. A woman who also could be described as a victim of her own success for it is her work that gives her the reason to get out of bed each day, never having stopped to smell the roses or have close friends, she has not invested any time in planning for the after work life.
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Original Title. Compassion, companionship, laughter, tears, misunderstandings, empathy, kindness are beautifully scattered across the Blue Mountains haven and are ultimately transformational. Want to Read saving…. Garnet gets dropped off with relatives when her mom goes off to Florida with a friend to look for work. Svelte, curved appropriately, with a luminescent body bathed in a lambent glow of chiaroscuro whatever the lighting.
The 4 women gain so much from this rewarding time that stay longer than first envisaged and later with decisions made they face the past and move on with new futures. Oct 15, Lesley Moseley rated it really liked it. I am calling this genre "chook-lit" as it is not only of my generation, but my style of writing about us. I have several Goodread friends who I would enjoy meeting, but maybe not to this extent.
Very serious topics surface, and all of them realise they are at an important Turning Point in their lives. Really enjoyed this sense of place s , and the firm but kind support to make better choices. View 1 comment. Jul 14, Theresa Smith rated it it was amazing Shelves: aww , book-bingo , australian-novels. If you read the right book at the right time, it can change your life. And so it was for Ros, Adele, Simone and June, each at an individual crossroads, coming together to meet in person for the first time, each armed with a book that told the others something important about themselves.
I loved how each woman not only realised things about themselves while discussing their own books, but also through reading the ones put forward by the others.
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The book discussions were of course the highlight for me with this novel, but I also drew a lot from the emotional journeys each woman traversed. I loved the connectivity and parallels they made between their chosen books and their own lives. I also appreciated the dissemination of the individual responses to the books read, particularly when there was contention between these responses. It made me think of my own reading and reviewing, and the reviewers that I follow, and all the different reactions we usually have to the same books.
And even something that is quite distasteful can strike some profound note within you, so you still read on. Liking or not liking is not always the most important thing about a book, is it? We talk about books, we make them work in our own lives: walk through the doors they open for us, cross the bridges they lay out for us, and pick and choose what we need to take away from them. Sep 09, Kate rated it really liked it. I love airport books. Weird I know but to date I have not hated a book I bought in an airport prior to getting on a plane. I love the fact you have time to ponder, deliberate and like really what else are you doing with the two hours you have before boarding?
Eat bad food? Buying make up?? The joy of knowing there are hours to fill with what ever you choose to read is simply one of the best bits about long distance travel. Many will extol the virtues of their online readers. I get it, truely I d I love airport books. So good. Four woman who were part of an online book club get to connect in real time and life. One of them was house sitting immediately post retirement and convinced the other three to join her in the Blue Mountains.
It is a beautiful story of transitions and ageing. The pace is perfect and the insights great for any age.
I loved that it was Australian while I was in Australia but again this book would be great to read anywhere any time. I only wish my book club was so insightful and fun. View all 3 comments. Feb 26, Lesley rated it it was amazing Shelves: faves-in , fiction.
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