Women in Business Creating Profit and Lifestyle!

It is a regular Sunday afternoon in Brisbane and 8 women are gathered in Newstead Park for their monthly book group meeting.  The group has just read Veronica Decides to Die by Paul Coelho and are gathering to discuss the book and its merits.  They are surrounded by trees, beautiful weather and the table is full of wine, cheeses and assorted other treats.  What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon? In terms of female bonding, women joining book groups has become an increasing trend, not only here in Brisbane but throughout Australia.  For many years book groups were seen as high brow, literary affairs that to the quiet observer seemed fairly intimidating.   It was an activity that only literary people might participate in and unless you were very well-read and had a particularly expansive vocabulary, you may feel a little dippy attending such an event.

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