Marco and Gerry are back – 19th May

by Orlagh on May 14, 2012

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Gerry Boland returns to The Reading Room to read from his new book in the Marco series:  ’Marco Master of  Disguise’.  Find out happens next on May 19th at 11.30am.

Entrance is free and all ages welcome.

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Book Club May

April 24, 2012
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Embassytown – China Mieville
Embassytown: a city of contradictions on the outskirts of the universe.  Avice is an immerser, a traveller on the immer, the sea of space and time below the everyday, now returned to her birth planet.  Here on Arieka, Humans are not the only intelligent life, and Avice has a rare bond with [...]

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Review of Mornings in Jenin

April 24, 2012
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This went down well.  Considered important for the information it imparted and it generated a good political discussion.  The literary quality was considered poor with the style and language a definite barrier.  However this did improve as the book moved on but it was the central character and the politics that made this worthwhile.

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John McGahern- A Private World DVD

April 16, 2012

Memoir forms the backbone of John McGahern – A Private World, which was filmed in late 2004 as part of RTE’s Arts Live series.  Through intimate interviews and extracts from his books, a strong and compelling sense of the man emerges, all the while offering rare insight into the creative process of one of Ireland’s [...]

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International Dublin Impac 2012 Shortlist

April 14, 2012
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The IMPAC DUBLIN Award  is the world’s most valuable (€100,000) annual literary award for a single work of fiction published in English. 
No Irish authors made the shortlist of 10 but my fiction pick for 2011, ‘A Visit from the Goon Squad’ is there – hiphip hurray.  Check the rest of the list at: http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/News.htm

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Dark Lies the Island

April 6, 2012
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Award winning Kevin Barry is back with a collection of unpredictable stories about love and cruelty, crimes, desperation, and hope.
Kevin has just been here, so signed copies now available – thanks Kevin.

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Book Club – April

March 27, 2012
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Mornings in Jenin – Susan Abulhawa
Mornings in Jenin is a multi-generational story about a Palenstinian family. Forcibly removed from the olive-farming village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel  in 1948, the Abulhejos are displaced to live in canvas tents in the Jenin refugee camp.  We follow the Abulhejo family as they live [...]

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Review of Les Enfant Terribles

March 27, 2012
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A difficult book to like and hard to truly pinned down for why.  Was it the translation?  It certainly didn’t appear to be very French.  The plot?  Unlikeable characters in an unoriginal story.  The philosophy? The what?    However on the flip side it was  reasonably liked by one member and well liked by another – describing [...]

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day

March 17, 2012
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Book Club – March

March 13, 2012
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Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
At home, Paul shares a private world with his sister Elisabeth, a world from which parents are tacitly excluded.  Their enchanted room is where the Game is played, the Game being their own bizarre version of life.  All that they do outside is effectively controlled by the rules of the [...]

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