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Borrisokane Adult Book Club

September 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

Borrisokane Adult Book Club resumed last night after a what seemed like a long summer! Once everyone got acquainted the meeting got underway! Members shared their views of the summers books, others vowed to make notes on the books from now on!! We finished up within the hour with our new book for this month Icebergs by Rebecca Johns

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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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Borrisokane Adult Book Club Review

March 4th, 2010 · No Comments

McCarthy’s Bar by Pete McCarthy

Pete McCarthy was born in England to an English father and an Irish mother. His childhood summers were spent in Cork with his mother’s family and this gave him a sense of belonging in Ireland. In “McCarthy’s Bar” he recounts his travels from Cork Donegal via Lough Derg. He has many travelling “rules” the most often mentioned one being never to pass a pub with his name over the door. Pete sets off on his journey in a rickety old car and discovers a sense of belonging in a country that he’s adopted as his own.

“McCarthy’s Bar” is a funny and light-hearted book. It is an easy read with many “laugh-out-loud” moments. It is also a reflective and sometimes nostalgic book as he recalls the Ireland he experienced on his holidays as a child and compares it with the bungalow besieged Ireland of the 1990’s. This book is very funny and very easy to read.

Labryrinth by Kate Mosse is a grail quest tale which starts out in present day with Alice on an archaeolgical dig on the side of a mountain in Carcassonne in France where she discovers a cave filled with secrets. The story then turns to 13th centruy France where we’re introduced to Alais who is living through the Fourth Crusade which was launched against the Cathars who were charged with heresy. The Cathars are used in this novel to represent a kindly, antiracist, tolerant force and it not unitl three quarters of the way through the book that we are told that their heresy is based around the belief that the world was created by the devil and we are in fact living in hell. This is one of the only annnoying things about the book as the heresy is referred to throughout the text and the explaination comes quite late in the story. (more…)

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Borrisokane Adult Book Club

December 12th, 2009 · No Comments

“The Curious Incident of the dog in the night time” by Mark Haddon

This ia a very readable, almost unputdownable book. As the blurb says, Christopher is a 15 year old who knows alot about science and maths but very little about human realationships. He has Aspergers Syndrome and in this book, where he is the narrator, he gives us a very interesting and engaging account of how he views the world. He makes us reconsider our preconceived notions and we begin to see the world as he does.

His world can be very frightening and confusing, unable as he is to see the reasons for peoples’ behaviour. He has a very logical view and the conclusions he draws might not always be ours. (more…)

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