WANT TO REVIEW BOOKS FOR MWSG MAGAZINE BOOK CLUB?
Welcome to the first edition of MWSG Magazine’s Book Club. Each month we’ll offer books for review and select readers to be sent copies. Then the following month we share with you what they thought of the book and release the next collection of books up for review. Got it? Good.
Right then. This month we have books from two of my favourite funny ladies. The delectable Dawn French and a woman whose dry wit makes me laugh so hard, I need to make sure I have a Tena lady pad handy.
// OH DEAR SILVIA :: DAWN FRENCH
“Who is in Coma Suite Number 5?
A matchless lover? A supreme egotist? A selfless martyr? A bad mother? A cherished sister? A selfish wife?
All of these. For this is Silvia Shute who has always done exactly what she wants. Until now, when her life suddenly, shockingly stops.
Her past holds a dark and terrible secret, and now that she is unconscious in a hospital bed, her constant stream of visitors are set to uncover the mystery of her broken life. And she must lie there, victim of the beloveds, the borings, the babblings and the plain bonkers.
Like it or not, the truth is about to pay Silvia a visit. Again, and again and again . . .”
// DRINK SMOKE PASS OUT, AN UNLIKELY SPIRITUAL JOURNEY :: JUDITH LUCY
“At last, a book about life that discusses liquor and lovemaking as much as it does the point of it all.
Judith Lucy has looked everywhere for happiness. Growing up a Catholic, she thought about becoming a nun, and later threw herself into work, finding a partner and getting off her face. Somehow, none of that worked.
So lately, she’s been asking herself the big questions. Why are we here? Is there a God? What happens when we die? And why can’t she tell you what her close friends believe in, but she can tell you which ones have herpes? No-one could have been more surprised than Judith when she started to find solace and meaning in yoga and meditation, and a newfound appreciation for what others get from their religion.
In her first volume of memoir, the bestselling The Lucy Family Alphabet, Judith dealt with her parents. In Drink, Smoke, Pass Out, she tries to find out if there’s more to life than wanting to suck tequila out of Ryan Gosling’s navel. With disarming frankness and classic dry wit, she reviews the major paths of her life and, alarmingly, finds herself on a journey.”
// WANT TO REVIEW ONE OF THESE BOOKS FOR THE MWSG MAGAZINE BOOK CLUB?
:: Leave a comment below letting us know which book you’d like to review and why you love the author.
:: We’ll pick 2 readers on Tuesday the 11th to be sent the book of their choice.
:: The 2 selected readers have one month to read the book and send us a minimum 250 word review of the book to share with the March Book Club. You don’t have to be able to write a piece worthy of a Walkley award, we just want you to share your thoughts on the book with us. Straight up.
// Terms and Conditions
:: MWSG Magazine will only post books to addresses in Australia.
:: Being selected as a MWSG Magazine reviewer for the month, you agree to send us a 250 word mininum review of the book to share with the March Book Club.
I would love to be one of the lucky ones chosen. I love reading and read every single day, it’s been a passion of mine since I could read. I would be able to read this in 1 month and provide a 250 word review on the book.
My fingers will be crossed (ohhh – I also find both of these ladies extremely funny so it will make reading the bookes so much easier).
I used to read every single night as a child. Even after lights out at 7:30 {or 8:30 on the nights A Country Practice was on} I would take a torch under my doona to finish my latest Sweet Valley High
I would love to review the Judith Lucy book. I am a massive fan – love her straight forward candidness, and that she is not afraid to hold back and tell it like it is. Always has me in stitches. This book would be an interesting read – with lots of tear-streaming laughs
Judith doesn’t disappoint in her new book – it’s fucking fabulous! Have you ever seen her live? I got stuck in the cross fire of some audience participation about Nicole Kidman {Judith was agog that I actually liked the film Australia}. This has to be one of my favourite Judith moments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je_zk7ofmFU
But oh, then there’s this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFB0ZuKyle0
…and the other part in her spiritual journey series when she back strokes to the fridge for another bottle of wine.
And this is quite moving actually http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFB0ZuKyle0
Would love to read the Judith Lucy book but happy to do either. Love Judith’s dry take on life.
Judith always seems to make you feel better about yourself and not take things so seriously with her self depreciating humour. She’s one funny lady.
I would like to be chosen to review Judith Lucy’s book too. I heard her reading from it on the radio a few weeks back and chuckled all the way home. Plus I love writing and I’m on a massive money saving kick so free stuff is always welcome!
Wish I heard that – just listening to her voice cracks me up. Did you see her Nothing Fancy show as part of the Warehouse Comedy series the other week?
I’d love to read & review Judith Lucy’s book! Love the way she views the world and her “tell it how it is” attitude really impresses me
. She’s one very funny lady!
She’s a straight shooter that’s for sure. I loved her Spiritual Journey series – she’s got a lot of depth to her humour.
I would love to review Judith Lucy new book. Her shockingly truthful and always amusing takes of life are sure to make one hell of a good book.
It was a can’t-put-down-until-I’m-finished page turner that’s for sure
l love Judith Lucy – we could have been sisters, being the same age, and having grown up in suburbs right next to each other, in fact I may have danced with her at any number of nightclubs and shared a bevy or two or three. She would have been great to be related too…. so my many transgressions would have paled by comparison. Many memories of my teens and twenty’s are missing which is why I would love to read her 2nd book.
I am from Perth originally too, but now a Melbournite like Judith. I dare not mention some of the questionable Perth drinking establishments we may have visited
I want to know who does Judith’s makeup? It’s so dewy and skin looks like porcelain, and her eyes so shiny. Even if it’s been air brushed, I can spot a good makeup artist when I see one. And got to love Judith’s trademark red lipstick – she can rock that colour.
Reviewing Judith Lucy’s book would be just the thing to break me out of my Tara Moss Binge, I read as soon as I wake up, on the loo, breastfeeding and sadly at family meals. Reading this much violent crime fiction can’t be good for me. I think that Judith Lucy was one of the last live shows I saw many years ago. (My husband is also her biggest fan and thinks that mentioning this will help my application.)I haven’t been to a live show since our children were born (except Pirates of Penzance but I don’t admit that). So in conclusion sending me a book to review would be a great idea! Also, you can’t see it from here but I am totally wearing that shade of lipstick.
Love your work! I was the same as a child on the reading front, as was my cousin {she used to hold onto her mum’s trolley with her head deep in her book whilst her mum did the shopping}. We swapped our Babysitter’s Clubs and Sweet Valley Teens {she wasn’t allowed Sweet Valley High at that stage} until we went through both collections. My granny really nurtured my reading, and used to buy me the classics such as The Secret Garden, Pollyanna and Anne of Green Gables. She also introduced me to the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice. My other nanna had the whole collection of Trixie Belden {tell me you know Trixie – the original female sleuth} from when my aunty was a teen, and I used to read one every night with the cup of hot milo she made me before bed. Aaaah, the memories. So many of my fond childhood memories involve my grandparents and books.
Thanks for choosing me for the review!.By the way, I adored Trixie Belden (and Nancy Drew and a couple of others whose names escape me) and Pollyanna and Anne of Green Gables and the Secret Garden. I also have fond memories of my Grandparents and their books, my grandfather had the entire collection of PG Wodehouse so as a teenager I read every Jeeves book!
Well considering I get mistaken for Judith Lucy a bit (and even had a startling moment when we clasped eyes on each other years ago, where she was momentarily lost for words), I think I could do a pretty darn good review of this book. But that’s up to you of course.
She should have invited you backstage for a drink and then a stumble to the nearest bar.
Oh yes Judith please. Because she is Bat. Shit. Crazy.
Xxx
And don’t we just love her for it?
I would love to read Judith Lucy’s // DRINK SMOKE PASS OUT, AN UNLIKELY SPIRITUAL JOURNEY. I absolutely love her and having a good book to hide away from my four children is a good start to me becoming a much nicer person lol
Judith is the best. And yes reading this book is total escapism, because you won’t be able to put it down. Definitely a cover-to-cover sitch.
Congratulations to Jessie Fitzpatrick who will be sent Dawn French’s book and Jessie Reid who will be reviewing Judith Lucy’s book. Watch out for March Book Club for new books up for grabs to review. Pssst, Jane Green’s new book is one of them.