Stewartsreadingcircle's Blog

This book even looks like Christmas with its silver shiny cover. Get ready to read a book that takes on a challenging subject and gives it back to us in a unique and unusual style. Perfect for this year when Christmas distractions will be few and far between.  Zoom details will be sent prior to our next meeting on 5th January 2021. Happy Christmas to all and thanks for bearing with all the zooming this year. Hope to see you all in person soon.

  Apeirogon was longlisted for the 2020 Booker prize. “Colum McCann crosses centuries and continents, stitching time, art, history, nature and politics into a tapestry of friendship, love, loss and belonging.”

“Eilis Ni Dhuibhne’s candid and moving memoir tells the story of her thirty-year relationship with the love of her life, internationally renowned folklorist Bo Almqvist,……, …..a remarkable story about love, grief and time, shot through the wry and sharp observations on Irish life, culture and morality.”

Author visit***** Eilis Ni Dhuibhne will join us at 7pm through zoom. Details will be emailed to you day before the meeting.

On leaving New York for Moscow to look after his elderly grandmother, Andrei Kaplan returns all his library books. This book is going the right  way………….Zoom meeting at 4pm on 3rd Nov. Meeting ID and passwords emailed in advance.

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.