Bibliofemme Bookclub An Irish Bookclub

January 10, 2012

Pure Heart Enlightened Mind by Maura Soshin O’Halloran

Filed under: Bookclub Books,Biography — The Artist @ 3:07 pm
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Title: Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind Author: Maura O'Halloran Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Riverhead Books (Hardcover) Release Date: 1995-10-01 Pages: 311 Meeting: Saturday 8th June 2002

The diary entries and letters of a young Irish Woman Maura O’Halloran, written while she received Zen training and worked towards “enlightenment in Japanese Zen Monasteries. While not intentionally written to be read by an audience these personal accounts of one woman’s unusual and courageous life make a fascinating read. Maura

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Schopenhauer’s Telescope by Gerard Donovan

Filed under: Bookclub Books,Historical Fiction — The Writer @ 3:07 pm
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Title: Schopenhauer's Telescope Author: Gerard Donovan Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Counterpoint Press Release Date: 2004-05 Pages: 306 Meeting: Thursday 26th August 2004

Like most of the others I found it slow to begin. Donovan won me over from page one with his beautiful writing and description but the characters of the Teacher and the Baker left me cold until at least half way through. I would have been happy to put it down and never finish it until I got closer to the end, but now I’m very glad that I did.

For

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The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

Filed under: Bookclub Books,Historical Fiction — The Historian @ 3:07 pm
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Title: The Pursuit of Love Author: Nancy Mitford Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Vintage Books USA Release Date: 1945 Pages: 214 Meeting: Thursday 26th February 2004

I’ve long been interested in the Mitford sisters, although have been known to mix them up with the Langhorne sisters on occasion (James Fox’s book on that quintet of Virginians who cut a swathe through pre-WWI Anglo-American society is also worth checking out). Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Decca and Debo Mitford came of age in England

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Tell No One by Harlan Coben

Filed under: Bookclub Books,Thriller — Femmes @ 3:07 pm
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Title: Tell No One Author: Harlan Coben Genre: Thriller Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Release Date: 2009 Pages: 370 Meeting: Monday 17th March 2003

A riveting, fast-paced, suspense thriller.

A couple, two childhood sweethearts, revisit a childhood location, Lake Charmaine, for their thirteenth anniversary, with a tragic outcome. Elizabeth Beck is brutally murdered, while her husband, David, is left for dead. Eight years later, when Dr. David Beck has still not come to terms with his wife’s

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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Filed under: Bookclub Books,Classics — The DJ @ 3:07 pm
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Title: Things Fall Apart Author: Chinua Achebe Genre: Igbo (African people) Publisher: Penguin Classics Release Date: 2006-01-01 Pages: 196 Meeting: Friday 16th January 2004

My reasons for picking ‘Things Fall Apart’ are many. As with my other bookclub choices, I wanted to go for a different nationality (and in this case continent) to get us discussing literature from all over the globe. This book was recommended to me more than once and I’ve wanted to read it for a long time. I also wanted to look

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Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes

Filed under: Bookclub Books,General Fiction — The Artist @ 3:07 pm
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Title: Timoleon Vieta Come Home Author: Dan Rhodes Genre: Fiction Publisher: Harvest Books Release Date: 2004 Pages: 226 Meeting: Monday 26th April 2004

The protagonists of this tale are billed as an aged homosexual composer, his dog and a “mysterious Bosnian”.

Cockroft, a retired composer and socialite, moves in Umbria, rural Italy following ostracism in his native England. Surviving on royalties he lives lonely and secluded life filled with flings, affairs and his dogs. Tomoleon Vieta

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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Filed under: Bookclub Books,Literature — Femmes @ 3:07 pm
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Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God Author: Zora Neale Hurston Genre: Literature Publisher: Harper Collins Release Date: 2006-05-30 Pages: 256 Meeting: Friday 21st November 2003

As a first choice for the book club, I choose Zora Neal Hurston’s ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ because of it’s huge influence on other American writers such as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Maya Angelou. Hurston’s writing was not as well received by other authors of her time, such as Richard Wright (Native Son &amp

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Leviathan by Paul Auster

Filed under: Bookclub Books,General Fiction — The Artist @ 3:07 pm
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Title: Leviathan Author: Paul Auster Genre: Fiction Publisher: Penguin Mass Market Release Date: 1993 Pages: 275 Meeting: Thursday 18th September 2003

Benjamin Sachs’ story is conveyed through the eyes of his friend Peter Aaron, a novelist who discovers in the book’s opening pages that Sachs has died in a mysterious bomb explosion. Aaron sets out to write the definitive version of Sachs’ story before the FBI can formulate theirs. Sachs is a writer, a philosopher, a man with loyalties

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The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor

Filed under: Bookclub Books,Irish,Literature — The Historian @ 3:07 pm
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Title: The Story of Lucy Gault Author: William Trevor Genre: Cork (Ireland) Release Date: 2010 Pages: 227

Summer, 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to the glens and woods above Lahardane - the home her family is being forced to abandon. She knows the Gaults, as Protestants, are no longer welcome in Ireland and that danger threatens. She is headstrong and decides that somehow she must force her parents into staying. But the path she chooses ends

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The Outsiders by S E Hinton

Filed under: Bookclub Books,Classics,Cult — The Techie @ 3:07 pm
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Title: The Outsiders Author: S. E. Hinton Genre: Classics, Cult Publisher: Puffin HC Release Date: 2002-06-27 Pages: 218 Meeting: Friday 28th November 2002

I watched this film a thousand times as a teenager and had many a daydream that involved Ponyboy Curtis. So when it was my turn to pick a book it was an obvious choice. Written by S E Hinton when she was only 16, that knowledge in itself was enough to make me wonder at the abilities of others.

The Outsiders was written in 1967 and describes the world

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