The QRRRWN Book Club is led by our Past President, Rosemary Burnett. We are incredibly grateful for Rosemary’s ongoing involvement and enthusiasm in leading the Book Club in 2020. The Book Club is open to all financial members of QRRRWN.
The Book Club was founded in 2019 by Dr Cecily Jensen-Clayton PhD, Frances Miller, Robin McConchie and Rosemary Burnett.
Background
Since 2019, the QRRRWN Membership Team has run a Book Club that shares reviews of the works of selected authors each month in the E-News. In 2020, we will also commence regular teleconference or on-line chats to discuss that month’s book and the review. We will also trial an email chat group and closed facebook group for QRRRWN members who join the Book Club.
We will send a reminder on the QRRRWN pages about registering for the Book Club teleconference or on-line chat.
Join the Book Club!
If you would like to join the Bookclub and are a financial member, please email Megan at eso@qrrrwn.org.au to join. Or become a QRRRWN member to enjoy our member benefits and access to the Bookclub here. https://www.qrrrwn.org.au/membership/
Be A Book Reviewer!
We are always looking for new book reviewers. If you are interested and agree with the guidelines below, please let Megan know at eso@qrrrwn.org.au.
Guidelines: book reviewers and approvers of book reviews
Books and their reviews do not need to fulfil on every one of the following points. They are to be used as a guide that align book choices and their reviews with objects of the QRRRWN constitution and recommendations made from contributors listed above.
A recommendation is that book selection and reviews align to at least one of the constitution objects.
Apply these guidelines when:
- selecting a book and reviewing it and
- when approving book reviews.
| Checkpoint | Book review guidelines |
| Title | |
| Author | |
| Place of publication: publisher, date of publication | |
| Number of pages | |
| Depending on the book’s purpose, if the author argues for a particular solution to a public problem, then the review should judge: · whether the author has defined the problem, · identified causes, planned points of attack, · provided necessary background information, · and offered specific solutions. | |
| Indicate the author’s professional expertise | |
| Cover the author’s main points | |
| Describe the kind of evidence the author uses to prove his or her points | |
| Describe how this book relates to other books on the same topic | |
| Critique whether or not the author has the necessary expertise to write the book | |
| Describe how successful/or not you think the author was in carrying out the overall purposes of the book | |
| How does this book create, promote and/or maintain networks amongst QLDs rural, remote and regional women? | |
| Does this book have a personal development or educational theme that could empower QLD’s rural, remote and regional women and their communities? | |
| Does this book raise the profile of QLDs rural, remote and regional women and, if so, in what way? | |
| Does this book create, promote and/or maintain networks between QLD’s rural, remote and regional women and local, state and federal governments, businesses and other organisations? |