Our book club resumed after the summer break. Our book choice was A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler. It was a popular choice. Feedback was very positive with all but one of the club enjoying the story and the language and pace of the story “beautiful lyrical prose” “overwhelmingly sad, sometimes unbearable” “ a good book to read after reading something tough”.
Following on from discussing the book we discussed what stops us reading, why we read and how to develop good reading habits.
Amongst the books club members had read during the summer break were Daisy Jones and The Six, The Cry, Miss Patch, Normal People, Crudo, heads of the Coloured People, Leonard Cohen poetry and Pat Barkers trilogy, Out Stealing Horses and Wheels within Wheels. So there are lots of recommendations for anyone looking for something new to read.
Next book club is 9th October 2019 at 2pm in the Side Door Café. All readers welcome!
Our next book choice recommended by Fidelma is Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. We are also going to complete readying Dubliners by James Choice.
Creative Writing Group
For the budding authors amongst us our Creative Writing group continues as part of our Health & wellbeing projects.
We invite everyone who loves to put pen to paper to be part of a very friendly and creative group,. We meet up every Thursday 11am.
To encourage you please enjoy reading Richard’s poem “When the Tide comes in”.
