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BUZZ BOOKS FEB/..MAR...2012
UPCOMING EVENTS.
Girlosophy: INSPIRE BOOK LAUNCH
with special guest Anthea Paul
Thursday 1st March _7.00pm
2230 Bar Restaurant (next door to The BLB)
The latest book in Anthea Paul's Girlosophy series, Girlosophy INSPIRE was born from the idea that girls can use their creative sources - in particular art and photography - as an empowering tool.
As a visual journey that takes the reader across countries and experiences, Girlosophy INSPIRE is designed to lift spirits, encourage thought and ignite a sense of adventure while promoting a new way of seeing the world. Curated by COFA masters graduates Anthea Paul and Geraldine Mills, Girlosophy INSPIRE is created as a oracle of ideas, details, moods, words and images to be dipped into, over and over.
At the heart of INSPIRE is a call to action to become a participant in the many scenes that unfold around you on a daily basis. Becoming aware of your surroundings is something that is at the core of photography. Observation is a process, not an event.
From the Dalai Lamas monks in India to the Burning Man festival in Nevada, the shrine at the Bali Memorial, a palm readers neon sign in Los Angeles and a moment on stage with Florence and the Machine; Girlosophy INSPIRE fuses moments snatched through the lens into a stunning visual essay that lifts, as the title would suggest, and transcends as only a Girlosophy project can.
INDIA TRAVEL PACKAGES WITH GIRLOSOPHY
& WORLD TRAVEL PROFESSIONALS
In association with top travel operator World Travel Professionals Girlosophy is offering travel packages to India exclusively for girls aged between 18-35 years in November 2012. The trips to Rajasthan will incorporate art and photography workshops, conservation projects, film nights and voluntourism. Educational and experiential in scope and focus, each registrant for the trip receives a Lomo camera and several rolls of film plus a Moleskine Journal as a gift from Girlosophy.
Read more here: http://bit.ly/A5mBvD
THURS 0 1 MARCH, 2012
Girlosophy: INSPIRE - BOOK LAUNCH
with special guest, Anthea Paul
THURS 01 MARCH, 2012
GEN-XYZ BOOKCLUB, 7pm, 2230 BAR
The Fault In Our Stars: John Green
WED 07 MARCH, 2012
MIND BODY SPIRIT BOOKCLUB, 9.30am
Ask And It Is Given: Esther & J.Hicks
WED 14 MARCH, 2012
NIGHTTIME BOOKCLUB, 6.00pm, 2230 BAR
The Snow Child: Eowyn Ivey
NEWS MIND.BODY.SPIRIT BOOKCLUB
This book club has been years in the making so I am so excited to kick things off. After years of recommending books and having such positive feedback (and plenty of questions and discussions) I felt it important to bring all these like - minded people together. My thoughts are as follows: read a range of different books which highlight a number of different areas including spirituality, self love and relationships, business and abundance consciousness, law of attraction, health and beauty.
I hope to discuss a number of classics as well as many new releases that I absolutely love. I have had a thought about times and would like to propose two offerings, The first Wed morning of each month at 9.30am and the 3rd wed night of the month at 6.30pm. I will offer different books on each of these events for those of you that may want to attend both book clubs.
My intention is to create a book club that also works as a mini workshop where we can work through questions from the text and discuss issues as they relate to our own lives. The cost for this event will be $20pp and book club members will receive a discount of !0% off the cost of the book. I also will create opportunities for one on one sessions if you would like to work more thoroughly on the book in relation to your own personal issues.
Please let me know if you are interested to join or have any further thoughts or suggestions,
Best regards
Kymberley
FEBRAURY BOOK:
The Power of Intention by Wayne Dyer
UPCOMING DATES:
Wednesday 1st February, 9:30am
Wednesday 15th February, 6:30pm
RECOMMENDATIONS THE HAPPIEST REFUGEE by ANH DO
AUTUMN LAING by ALEX MILLER
A Vietnamese refugee whose family settled in Australia when he was very young. He has since become rather a beloved stand-up comic/actor/personality and writer (screen and book) in Australia. Hes always made me laugh when Ive seen him on television - but this book not only made me laugh, it made me cry. The refugee boat journey was horrific, truly terrible - they are all lucky to have survived. On the other hand, Australians are the lucky ones to have this marvellous man and his family living here. A beautiful auto-biography, honest, funny, and poignant. Intensely moving and wonderful to read
- MALVINA YOCK.
My book of the year for 2011 and a work of such magnitude that I cant envisage anything coming close to it when it comes to the Australian literary awards season. Based loosely on the lives of Sunday Reed, Sidney Nolan and one of this countries most famous art movements, it captivates throughout and leaves me in no doubt that Miller is, at the very least, one of this country's greatest living writers - GRANT.
ROOM by EMMA DONOGHUE
WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT by SARAH WINMAN
Could have been harrowing and distressing, but it wasn't. It's the story of a young 5 year-old boy who lives in a room with his mother. I wont divulge other details lest the storyline be destroyed for someone. It had the potential to be absolutely horrifying and ghastly but was instead loving and triumphant. Makes a lasting impression
- MALVINA YOCK.
This book just wont leave me alone! It's been months since I read it and the characters just don't go away. Beautiful writing style and the brother sister relationship is so special
- PAT SIMMONS
BOOKCLUBS GEN-XYZ BOOKCLUB
THURSDAY 01 MARCH 7.00PM _ 2230 BAR THE FAULT IN THE STARS by John Green
MIND BODY SPIRIT BOOKCLUB
WED 7 MARCH, 9.30AM
ASK and IT IS GIVEN
by ESTHER & JERRY HICKS
'Esther and Jerry Hicks' first book presenting the teachings of the non-physical entity Abraham has drawn an extraordinary collection of
** PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE WON'T BE A NIGHTTIME MIND BODY SPIRIT BOOKCLUB DURING MARCH AS KYMBERLEY WILL BE AWAY ON HOLIDAYS...
NIGHT-TIME BOOKCLUB
WEDNESDAY 14 MARCH, 6.00PM _ 2230 BAR / RESTAURANT (next door) THE SNOW CHILD by Eowyn Ivey"
Despite the tumour-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has
endorsements from people keen to draw attention to the message that Abraham has to convey. Endorsements have been received from Neale Donald Walsch, John Gray, Wayne Dyer, Louise L. Hay, Jack Canfield and Christine Northrup. This book explains how our relationships, health issues, finances, career concerns are influenced by the Universal laws that govern our time/space reality and describes powerful processes that will help people manifest their desires and live the fulfilling life you deserve.
never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.
John Green is the best-selling author of Looking for Alaska; An Abundance of Katherines; Paper Towns; Will Grayson, Will Grayson.
The reviewers say:
'A novel of life and death and the people caught in between, The Fault in Our Stars is John Green at his best. You laugh, you cry, and then you come back for more.'
- Markus Zusak, bestselling and Printz Honor-winning author of The Book Thief
'An electric portrait of young people who learn to live life with one foot in the grave. Filled with staccato bursts of humor and tragedy, The Fault in Our Stars takes a spin on universal themes-Will I be loved? Will I be remembered? Will I leave a mark on this world?-by dramatically raising the stakes for the characters who are asking.'
- Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Sing You Home'
John Green writes incredible, honest truths about the secret, weird hearts of human beings. He makes me laugh and gasp at the beauty of a sentence or the twist of a tale. He is one of the best writers alive and I am seething with envy of his talent.'
- E. Lockhart, National Book Award Finalist
In Eowyn Ivey's magical debut novel The Snow Child, a couple creates a child out of snow. When she appears on their doorstep as a little girl, wild and secretive, their lives are changed forever.
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for a couple who have never been able to conceive. Jack and Mabel are drifting apart—he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone, but they catch sight of an elusive, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.
This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and leaves blizzards in her wake. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who seems to have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in the Alaska wilderness, life and death are inextricable, and what they eventually learn about Faina changes their lives forever.
Eowyn was inspired to write the novel after she discovered the classic Russian fairy tale of the snow maiden. She was shelving books in the children's section of Fireside Books when she happened across a copy of Freya Littledale's retelling of the fairy tale with illustrations by Alaskan artist Barbara Lavallee. The story haunted Eowyn with its loneliness and magic in a landscape so similar to the one she grew up in. She spent the next few months researching the original tale, and depictions of it in Russian art work, before she began writing.
The Snow Child has been described as a "remarkable achievement", "stunningly conceived" and "enchanting from beginning to end."
RECENT BOOKCLUBS
NIGHT-TIME
FEBRUARY 2012
A COMMON LOSS Kirsten Tranter
JANUARY 2012
ANIMAL PEOPLE Charlotte Wood
DECEMBER 2011
OLD SCHOOL P.M. Newton
NOVEMBER 2011
AUTUMN LAING Alex Miller
OCTOBER 2011
CALEB'S CROSSING
Geraldine Brooks
SEPTEMBER 2011
GLISSANDO David Musgrave
AUGUST 2011
THE TIGER'S WIFE Tea Obreht
JULY 2011
BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP
SJ Watson
JUNE 2011
IN COLD BLOOD Trumna Capote
GEN-XYZ
FEBRUARY 2012
ERNEST HEMINGWAY NIGHT CIRCUS The Man, The Books & an Extraordinary Life
JANUARY 2012
THE NIGHT CIRCUS Erin Morgenstern
NOVEMBER 2011
VERNON GOD LITTLE DBC PIerre
OCTOBER 2011
ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY
David Sedaris
SEPTEMBER 2011
THE GLASS CASTLE Jeannette Walls
AUGUST 2011
LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN
Colum McCann
J ULY 2011
WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT
Sarah Winman
JUNE 2011
THE SECRET HISTORY Donna Tartt
SHORTSTORY PRIZE 2011 BLB SHORT STORY PRIZE
2011 SHORT STORY SCHOOLS WINNER
SHORT STORY PRIZE HISTORY
The BLB Short Story Prize began in 2010 as an opportunity for local writers to portray their literary and storytelling prowess. However, the 'localness' concept was shortlived as we began receiving entries from right across the state.
This year, the competition was expanded to include the BLB Schools Short Story Prize and we were really excited by the standard of entries received.
There are already plans afoot for The 2012 BLB Short Story Prize so stay tuned for details...
WINNER BLB SHORT STORY PRIZE
Congratulations to Leonie Howes, the winner of this years BLB Short Story Prize for her short story, 'One Long Road' ...
My eyes opened wide to the deafening silence, I survey my surroundings whilst recalling
the previous night. I remember being in a jeep with my Father and Brother, a vague
recollection of my Dad putting his forehead to mine, wishing me a safe journey then
nothing; I must have fallen asleep...
2ND PLACE : BLB SHORT STORY PRIZE
This years 2nd-Place winner is Maggie Arber for her short story, Invited.
3RD PLACE : BLB SHORT STORY PRIZE
And finally, our 3rd-Place prize winner this year goes to our 2010 Winner, Pat Simmons for Interview with the Cane Toad .
WINNER SCHOOLS SHORT STORY PRIZE
We're really excited to annouce that the winner of our inaugural BLB Schools Short Story Prize for 2011 is Alex MacRitchie for highly imaginitive short story, 'My Adventure In The Land Of Spirits' ...
I woke up, still lying in the kangaroo skin which I had hunted and killed with my spear. Looking around, I found that I was still in my damp, smelly cave in this damp, smelly land, in this damp, extremely smelly world. I spent a moment to relive the dream that I had been dreaming. I was in the middle of this country, with no weapon and nothing to defend myself with. Then I saw these things which looked like spirits....
JOINT RUNNERS-UP
BLB SCHOOLS SHORT STORY PRIZE
- Maddie Millett, 'A New Life'
- Coady Gillis, 'Zaki's Journey: A Refugee's Story'
PREVIOUS WINNERS
2010: WINNER
- Pat Simmons, 'Eva & The Bookshop Man'
2010: 2ND PLACE
- Su Reid, 'Alex'
2010: 3RD PLACE
- Krystina Pecorari, 'Anise, The Boy and the Bookshop'
LOTUS ROOMS MIND.BODY.SPIRIT BOOKCLUBS
LEANNE GRIFFITHS
PSYCHIC TAROT READINGS
Leanne works in the Lotus Rooms on Mondays, Thursdays & Sundays.
Leanne is a born Psychic Intuitive and works with your spirit guides and loved ones on the other side to bring you peace, guidance and answers you need.
10am - 4pm, Monday, Thursday & Sunday
$80 1/2 hour reading, $160 1 hour reading
To make a booking: call or text 0402254846, info_leannegriffiths.net
www.leannegriffiths.net
LOTUS ROOMS TIMETABLE
-MONDAY-
PSYCHIC TAROT READINGS
with Leanne
KELEE MEDITATION (BEGINNERS CLASS)
8.00 - 9.00pm
with Matt
-TUESDAY-
TRANSFORMATIONAL HEALING
with Nic, Soulcraft
KELEE MEDITATION (REGULARS CLASS)
6.30pm -7.30pm
with Matt
-WEDNESDAY-
HYPNOTHERAPY / HYPNOBIRTHING
with Fiona
(by appointment only)
KELEE MEDITATION (REGULARS CLASS)
7.30-8.30pm
with Matt
-THURSDAY-
INTUI T IVE READINGS
& LAW OF ATTRACTION
with Carmen
HYPNOTHERAPY / HYPNOBIRTHING
with Fiona
(by appointment)
-FRIDAY-
HYPNOTHERAPY / HYPNOBIRTHING
with Fiona
(by appointment)
-SATURDAY-
PSYCHIC TAROT
READINGS
with Melanie
-SUNDAY-
PSYCHIC TAROT
READINGS
with Leanne
FEBRUARY BOOK:
The Power of Intention by Wayne Dyer
UPCOMING DATES:
Wednesday 15th February, 6:30pm
'The Power of Intention' is a very interesting and inspiring read that will set the tone for the rest of the year. If you dont have the time to finish it, dont worry as we'll be discussing the main ideas during our time together and working on some exercises from the book.... ( click here for more info)
Fiona OBrien
Clinical Hypnotherapist
Holistic Hypnotherapy - Spiritual NLP
Freedom through Hypnosis
(Dip. CHt. Member AHA)
Cert. NLP Practitioner, Meditation facilitator
Cert. Childbirth Educator
Mob: 0422 124 744
fionaobrien_iprimus.com.au
www.ntpages.com.au/therapist/9845
MARCH BOOK:
Ask and It Is Given by Esther & Jerry Hicks
UPCOMING DATES:
Wednesday 7th March, 9:30am
Wednesday 21st March, 6:30pm
The teachings of Abraham will help you learn how to manifest your desires so that you are living the joyous and fulfilling life you deserve. As you read, you will come to understand how your relationships, health issues, finances, career concerns, and more are influenced by the Universal laws that govern your time/space reality - and you will discover powerful processes that will help you go with the positive flow of life. It is your birthright to live a life filled with everything that is good - and this book will show you how to mke it so in every way!
Carmen Seidel
Spiritual Life Coaching - Energetic Healing
E.F.T. - Meditation - Intuitive Readings
We all deserve to feel good
m: 0414-735-467
cseidelau_yahoo.com.au
By appointment only
Kelee Meditation Classes
Our purpose is to offer to all who are seeking, a way to improve emotional and physical health through understanding of a phenomenon known as the Kelee.
What is the Kelee? Kelee is a word to describe energy field that is within everyone. It is the vessel for your soul.
What is Kelee Meditation? It is a simple meditation practice focused on achieving stillness of mind thus, cultivating a true sense of peace and contentment in ones life. After the meditation students are taught to contemplate their own mind with the help of the teacher.
GUIDED KELEE MEDITATION
GROUP CLASS TIMES
Monday Beginners 8.00 - 9.00 pm $20
Tuesday Regulars 6.30 - 7.30 pm $20
Wednesday Regulars 7.30 - 8.30 pm $20
PRIVATE SESSIONS
Cost $80. Available on request
CONTACT: Matt Griggs m 0416 188 544
matt_thekelee.com.au www.thekelee.com.au
NIC TOVEY - SOULCRAFT
Transformational Healing provides a holistic framework in which you have the support and guidance required to discover, nurture and flourish as your Souls true expression. Using a combination of Transpersonal Counselling and Energetic Healing you are empowered to find and utilise your own inner resources to assist your own transformation into a state of joy and wellness.The CRAFT of the SOUL.
$120 for 90 min, $90 for 60 min
Enquiries or appointments: 0404 850 143
nic_soulcraft.com.au www.soulcraft.com.au
Melanie Hodsdon
Shimmering Hemispheres
Psychic Medium & Healer
Readings, Energy Healing, Guided Meditations
Spiritual Guidance, Personalised Meditations
m: 0410 46 77 56
hemispheres_optusnet.com.au
www.shimmeringhemispheres.com
