Events - 20 Apr 24
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It’s time for our next BIG, BIG BOOK SALE (BBB)! Come to the library and browse through thousands of second-hand books in English that we’ll have for sale. Whatever your reading style or level is, we’ll have something for you: children’s books, young adult fiction, crime thrillers, classic novels, non-fiction (gardening, cooking), biographies, autobiographies and many, many more! The cost is 2€ per book. If you buy 5 books, you’ll get a 6th book free! We will be open from 10:00 to 18:00, but we encourage you to come early before our hottest titles go! And that’s not all. We’ll also have an assortment of plants and baked goods for sale. You don’t want to miss out! This event is open to the public. The BBB is a bi-annual library fundraiser in which we sell books that have been generously donated to us by our community in order to raise money to fund our operations. It is an important event that allows us to continue to thrive and offer quality books and services. If you are interested in donating your gently used books, you may bring them to the front desk of the library before Saturday, April 13th. Thank you for your continued support of our organization!
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The library’s Garden Club will be selling seedlings from Saturday, April 20th through Saturday, April 27th during opening hours. We’ll have lots of vegetable and flower seedlings available to choose from…but that’s not all… The cherry on the cake (or the plum on the tree)…all proceeds help to support the library! |
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The Saturday Reading Group is for anyone who loves to read, socialize in English, and meet new people. For this meeting, the group will read “Normal People” by Sally Rooney. The feverishly anticipated second novel from the young author of 2017’s most
acclaimed debut Conversations with Friends. Connell and Marianne grow up in the
same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different
worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has
grown between them lasts long into the following years. This is an exquisite love story
about how a person can change another person’s life – a simple yet profound realisation
that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel. It tells us how difficult it is to talk
about how we feel and it tells us – blazingly – about cycles of domination, legitimacy and
privilege. Alternating menace with overwhelming tenderness, Sally Rooney’s second
novel breathes fiction with new life.
Meetings are once a month on Saturday afternoons starting at 3 pm. Open to all library members. To sign up please contact the group coordinator at bookgroup@ellia.org. |