A spotter's guide to Canberra book clubs

By Natasha Rudra
Updated July 31 2014 - 10:23am, first published July 25 2014 - 1:26pm
Existential crisis: One boor can ruin it for everyone.
Existential crisis: One boor can ruin it for everyone.

One of the things that everyone notices about Canberra is that we're a fairly well educated lot – and we quite like to read. Take a stroll down any bit of green grass by the lake on a sunny day or pop into a hip cafe and you'll always see someone tucked away with a book. And, this being Canberra, we don't just read. We form book clubs. In the same way that we don't just play a bit of soccer, we join a proper paid up league. Libraries ACT is trying to find out more about the city's book clubs and have been asking Canberrans to fill out an online survey about their clubs (you can find it at library.act.gov.au and it runs until August 8).