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Borrisokane Library Reading Tree Party!!!

September 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

Borrisokane Library Reading Tree Party will be held on Wednesday 8th September at 6pm, with Special Guests!!! Make sure and bring things to get them signed!!!!

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Secure your perfect job!

July 22nd, 2010 · No Comments

With quick tips and essential advice, Ultimate CV by Rowan Manahan shows you how to turn your CV into a successful pitch. In clear-cut language recruitment experts Rowan Manahan shows you how to;

- Avoid mistakes that land CV’ in the bin

- Understand what the employer needs using simple but effective techniques.

- Present and style your CV to best effect.

- Write your CV as a first-time job-seeker.

Available now in Killenaule Library

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Thurles: Launch of Tipperary Reads Festival

July 19th, 2010 · No Comments

On Saturday 17th July, Tipperary Libraries readers turned out in great numbers to hear Joseph O’Connor read from his wonderful novel ‘Star of the Sea’ which is the focus novel of this year’s Tipperary Reads Festival. Joe will be returning to Tipperary Libraries in November for a series of discussion sessions. To see more photos click on the following link in Flickr

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Thurles: Cool Reads Teenage Book Club

July 8th, 2010 · No Comments

Chill out with a cappuccino or hot chocolate once a month. We have an exciting range of books to suit all tastes. The next meeting is 22^nd September at 4.30pm in The Source Library. Places are limited so book now to reserve your place!

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One of the most beautiful novellas to read at one sitting.

June 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. Stories of immortality told tenderly and beautifully written.

Each chapter centers on a painting (and has a colour illustration of the painting) by the American born impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. The stories are told through the eyes of her sister Lydia as she poses for the artist and she reflects on her life, her lost loves and her family as they come to terms with her terminal illness.

Available through any library in Co Tipperary and a must read.

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The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards

June 4th, 2010 · No Comments

This novel was a great read enjoyed by all members of the Borrisokane Book Club.

The reader is gripped by the story from the very beginning. Once the snow starts falling and Norah goes into labour, this book is a real page-turner. Dr David Henry delivers the babies, a boy and a girl. On seeing that the girl has Down’s Syndrome (like his sister had and died prematurly), he decides to leave her in an institution. Caroline Gill, the nurse on duty at the labour is given the task for delivering her to the institution. But upon seeing the misery inside she decides to keep the baby and raise her as her own. Both of these snap desicions affect lives of all the characters in the book. David and Caroline begin to live lives of secrecy, while Norah’s grief seems almost unresolvable

It is remarkable to see how the characters evolve through the pages and they are, at all times credile and human.

A Great Novel - well worth reading

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‘The Elegance of the Hedgehog’ - Book Review Nenagh Book Club

May 11th, 2010 · No Comments

THE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG

Review by Austin Kenny

This novel has been a publishing sensation in France selling over two and half million copies worldwide and making a literary superstar of its author, Muriel Barbery. It is a curious and engaging story told from the perspective of two different narrators with the switches from one to the other marked by a change in typeface.

The first narrator is Renée Michel. She has spent half of her fifty four years working as the concierge of No. 7 Rue de Grenelle, a fine Hotel Particular in Paris, which has a courtyard and private gardens and is divided into eight luxury apartments. These are the homes of bankers, lawyers and politicians along with their pampered pets and offspring. Archetypal members of the bourgeoisie, they are selfish and arrogant. Some with phony concerns for the plight of the ‘lower’ classes belong to ‘The Caviar Left’. We know them as ‘Smoked Salmon Socialists’. They lead fatuous empty lives and are incapable of engaging meaningfully with life, be it human, plant or animal. When Rennée’s husband dies having been for many (more…)

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Borrisokane: Adult Book Club review

May 7th, 2010 · No Comments

The secret life of bees is not based on the life of bees but uses them to demonstrate some of life’s finer points to a young fourteen year old Girl ” Lily” who has lost her Mother and has run away with the BLACK servant “Rosaleen” of a rich peach farmer living in South Carolina in the 1950’s.
She has run away because of her fathers abusive nature and his lack of understanding of the female species. Lily has vague memories of her mother and the circumstances in which she died, Lily accidentally killed her with her fathers gun after walking in on her parents having a row because her mother “Deborah” had been away with some black friends ” the honey makers” and realised she could (more…)

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Nenagh - Book Review ‘The Elegance of the Hedgehog’

May 6th, 2010 · No Comments

‘The ‘Elegance of the Hedgehog’ by Muriel Barbary

Reviews were decidedly mixed for this book in our Nenagh library book club but certainly this reviewer would encourage the reader to persevere with it.

‘The Elegance of the Hedgehog’ by Muriel Barabary suggests a satirical look at French soiety through the eyes and words of 54 year old Renée Michel, a concierge working in a upscale Parisian apartment building, and Paloma, a 12 year old student. Renée is judged to be an uneducated, dull caretaker by the residents of the building but in fact she is a deeply intellectual and philosophical woman, well read and cultured. She lives with a tragic secret from her youth which she finally reveals to Paloma, thereby changing Paloma’s disillusioned view of the society and family in which she lives. (more…)

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