Stewartsreadingcircle's Blog

Welcome back everyone. Thanks to all who joined the Zoom meeting on Tuesday to chat about Jane Eyre. That series starts up on 16th September. I’ll post the details shortly. If you are interested in joining the series via zoom, leave your email with the library and we will organise the connection.

We start off with a book that has been months in the best sellers list in Ireland. I hope you enjoy it. If we can’t meet as a group physically, we will have to zoom again. It all depends on the numbers that are allowed to meet indoors.

What better time to read or reread a classic! we have lovely new copies of Jane Eyre to lend until 1st Sept. (introduction by Maggie O’Farrell). There is no meeting in August but there will be a few Bronte events popping up over August and September. Maebh O’Regan will talk about Charlotte Bronte’s Irish connection in an event that will be online towards the end of August. That will be followed by a fortnightly literary series in Sept in 3 parts. Details will be available soon. See you all in Sept. and happy reading until then.

“Hortensia and Marion are next door neighbours in a charming, bougainvillea-laden Cape Town suburb. One is black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers behind them………..both are sworn enemies, sharing hedge and hostility pruned with zeal.

Love thy neighbour? Easier said than done.”

Next meeting is planned for Tuesday 7th July at 4pm. As with our last few meetings, we will have to be mindful of advice on meetings at this time. I’ll be in touch before then.

A “Grapes of Wrath” for our times. Don Winslow.

We will try to meet on 16th June (Bloomsday) in as physically distancing way as we can manage. If the weather is good, the meeting will be outdoors in the grounds of Stewarts. If not, we will rethink it or postpone until July. Keep safe.

We had such great plans for this book in April, the one City, One book choice for Dublin 2020 but Covid 19 got in the way. Christine lives in Palmerstown and we are all hugely loyal to her as well as fans of all her books. She wrote Tatty in 2004 but it still resonates today. I quote Ann Enright……”Keeps getting better, long after you have put it down. In perfect, unassuming prose, Christine Dwyer Hickey conjures all our childhoods. This book is for anyone who ever wondered about the shouting next door”.

Meeting due to be held on Tuesday 5th May at 4pm but I will be in touch before then. Siobhan

Another best seller! it’s been a great year for the top reads for this book club.

“Utterly unforgettable….This is a as powerful a story about the transforming potential of education as you’ll ever read” Bookseller.

Meeting at 4.15pm on Tuesday 7th April in the library

“Olive , Again follows the blunt , contradictory, yet deeply loveable Olive Kitteridge as she grows older……..” This novel is a follow up from the much loved book “Olive Kitteridge”. Reviews tell us that it can be enjoyed without having read the first book but then again you may still want to…..Meeting at 4.15 on Tuesday 3rd March.