Copies of An American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld are available in the library now. Promises to be a good read if the reviews are anything to go by.
“A powerful, utterly compelling and strangely moving fictional account of a First lady who bears more than a passing resemblance to laura Bush” Daily Mirror.
This years One City One Book book (Dublin city libraries)is Dubliners by Joyce. We are joining in at Palmerstown and reading it for our April choice. The meeting is on 1st May at 5pm. Some of us will attend the reading on The Dead at Bewleys on Thursday 12th April so anyone who wants to join in is welcome. Remember to book though. Don’t forget the Joyce and Chapelizod talk at Farmleigh on 29th April. Looks interesting..
Delighted to welcome a native of Palmerstown to our meeting next month! Nuala Ni Chonchuir, author of “You” will be here to talk about this book. Copies are still available to borrow. All welcome.
This months book is The Tiger’s wife by Tea Obreht. It was the winner of the Orange prize for fiction 2011. ”A genuinely exciting debut….a delightful work, as enchanting as it is surprising, and Obreht is acompelling new voice” The Sunday Times.
ALSO….date for your diary. Nuala Ni Chonchuir will visit the group on 3rd April to discuss her book “You”.
We are reading One Day for our next meeting on 7th Feb @5pm. Copies are availble now from the library.
“a totally brilliant book about the hearbreaking gap between the way we were and the way we are…the best love story since The Time Travellers Wife. Every reader will fall in love with it and every writer will wish they had written it. ” Tony Parsons
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.
Her name was Henrietta lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells-taken without her knowledge-became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine. Balancing the beauty and drama of scientific discovery with dark questions about who owns the stuff our bodies are made of, this is an extraordinary detective story in search of the soul and story of a real woman, whose cells live on today in all four corners of the world
Book club are reading “A type of beauty. The Story of kathleen Newton” by Patricia O’Reilly. It is a dramatised account of the life of Kathleen Newton (1854-1882) whose affair with the painter, Jacques Tissot scandalised Victorian society. The author, who is also a lecturer, a native of Dublin will attend the next meeting. Copies of the book can be borrowed from the library now
THREE IRISH NOVELS NOMINATED FOR 2012 INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD. 147 TITLES NOMINATED BY LIBRARIES WORLD WIDE
Three Irish novels are among 147 titles that have been nominated by libraries worldwide for the €100,000 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English. The 2012 Award was launched today, by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Cllr. Andrew Montague, Patron of the Award, at a ceremony in The Dublin City Library & Archive. The Irish titles are:
Room by Emma Donoghue, nominated by libraries in Ireland, England, France, Maldives, Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Canada.
Faithful Place by Tana French, nominated by Lincoln City Library, USA.
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray, nominated by libraries in Ireland and the USA
Welcome to our book club. The club is run from Stewarts Hospital in Palmerstown in partnership with South Dublin Public Libraries. We meet every month on the first Tuesday at 5pm in the library. The club was established several years ago and has members from the general public in Palmerstown and hospital staff. New members are always welcome.
