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Book Club reads “Things Fall Apart”
13/12/2024 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The December read for the book club is “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe. “The novel chronicles the life of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo community, from the events leading up to his banishment from the community for accidentally killing a clansman, through the seven years of his exile, to his return, and it addresses […]
Read moreBook Club reads “Enter Ghost”
15/11/2024 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The November read for the book club is “Enter Ghost” by Isabella Hammad. “Isabella Hammad’s Enter Ghost centers a West Bank production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet; Sonia, a Dutch Palestinian actress, leaves behind a messy relationship in London to visit her sister in Haifa, a city she hasn’t seen since childhood summers, and finds more than […]
Read moreBook Club reads “Morality Play”
18/10/2024 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The October read for the book club is “Morality Play” by Barry Unsworth. “The national bestseller: A medieval murder mystery full of the wonders of the time―and lessons for our own time―by a master storyteller. The time is the fourteenth century. The place is a small town in rural England, and the setting a snow-laden […]
Read moreBook Club reads “Beloved”
20/09/2024 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The September read for the book club is “Beloved” by Tony Morrison. “Beloved, novel by Toni Morrison, published in 1987 and winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The work examines the destructive legacy of slavery as it chronicles the life of a Black woman named Sethe, from her pre-Civil War days as a slave […]
Read moreBook Club reads “The Woman Who Walked into Doors”
21/06/2024 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The June read for the book club is “The Woman Who Walked into Doors” by Roddy Doyle. “The Woman Who Walked Into Doors is a beautifully written novel about a horrific subject, it tells the story of Paula Spencer, a middle-aged alcoholic housecleaner and beaten wife who finally finds the strength to escape her sadistic husband, […]
Read moreBook Club reads “Conversation with Friends”
17/05/2024 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The May read for the book club is “Conversation With Friends” by Sally Rooney. “Conversations with Friends follows Frances, a 21 year old college student, as she navigates a series of relationships that force her to confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time. Frances is observant, cerebral and sharp. Her ex-girlfriend, now best friend, Bobbi […]
Read moreBook Club reads “April in Spain”
19/04/2024 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The April read for the book club is “April in Spain” by John Banville. “On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax, despite the beaches, cafés and the company of his disarmingly lovely wife. When he glimpses a familiar face in the twilight at Las Acadas bar, it’s […]
Read moreBook Club reads “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”
15/03/2024 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The March read for the book club is “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” by Philip K. Dick. “Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter, plans to kill enough errant androids (replicants) so he can replace his robotic sheep with a real one. In the process of hunting down these slave pseudo-humans, Rick Deckard falls in love […]
Read moreBook Club reads “The Secret Life Of Bees”
16/02/2024 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The February read for the book club is “The Secret Life Of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd. “When Lily’s fierce-hearted “stand-in mother,” Rosaleen, insults three racists in town, they escape to Tiburon, South Carolina—a town that holds the secret to her mother’s past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily finds […]
Read moreBook Club reads “Foster” and “Small Things Like These”
19/01/2024 @ 3:00 pm-4:30 pm – The January read for the book club are “Foster” and “Small Things Like These” by Claire Keegan. Foster : It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas’ house, […]
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