Chapter Eight Book Club

Chapter Eight are an established book club, set up in 2008, they were ahead of the trend, and there are eight members, which is how the club got its name. Though they are currently one member down, as one of the eight is living and working in Florida, the club manages to get through a wide range of books in the fiction genre with the occasional non-fiction or memoir title added in for good measure.
They meet on the first Friday of every month, taking it in turns to host the meeting and provide the food. This started off as just a few nibbles but they’ve noticed it has become more of a gourmet feast each month as time has gone by! Each member brings a bottle of wine which somehow disappears during the evening mysteriously! So popular are the meetings that even though one of their members moved from Roscommon to Galway a few years ago it doesn’t stop her from coming back to all the meetings each month and, to facilitate her, the rest of the group travel to Galway for their Christmas book club ‘special edition’.
To facilitate life, kids and busy times, the book club take the summer off and regroup again in September by all going out for a meal. Last year they took the regrouping even further… all the way to Bunratty Castle for the weekend.
Their most recent read was Life of Pi by Yann Martel, and they have read dozens of other books over the years – their favourite so far was Pride and Prejudice which earned a score of 9 out of 10; nothing else has beaten that yet! Other popular books were We need to talk about Kevin, Lonesome Dove and Cutting for Stone.