A 220 km round trip to attend monthly book club meetings in Moree, soon lost its appeal when both my real life and writing workloads began to increase some years ago. I love talking about books and authors and film and art and… which is pretty much how our book club evolved into a melting pot of creativity. I miss such diverse discussions which arose through varied interests and new releases and the fact that a lack of reader’s notes found us wandering away from the original reason for our meetings. We often chose books for which there were no reader’s notes, simply because 7/8 years ago the closest thing to notes were the Cribb notes some of us recalled using at school as a study guideline for many of the great literary tomes.  Needless to say our merlot heightened discussions verged sideways… These day’s book clubs and avid readers love notes and as a reader it’s always interesting to delve a little further into a work that you have sadly just finished reading however are not quite prepared to leave. Reader’s notes can be as simple as a listing of generic points for consideration or as detailed as a CSI profiler building a picture of a crime scene. Either option serves the same purpose and hopefully leads to engaging conversation and a renewed appreciation for a book recently finished. Reader’s notes will be posted for The Bark Cutters within the next 10 days..