A Year of Silent Book Club, Dublin
2024 marks a full year of Silent Book Club Dublin - a chapter of
- organised by myself and Zoë Coleman, and held every month in Mish Mash cafe on Capel Street (thank you Karolina!). We greatly enjoyed every meeting of our low pressure ‘club’, and it has been really wonderful to watch friendships being made - and even make some ourselves! - over the common love of the written word.During the year SBC Dublin:
Raised €225 for Irish Healthcare Workers for Palestine
Held a ‘Books for incarcerated people in Ireland’ drive, and are in the process of donating 75+ books to Mountjoy Prison Library.
For more information on SBC Dublin, follow our Facebook or Instagram pages. All are welcome to attend the next meeting, TBC in January!
Beating the January blues with some cosy reading.
Dark February days saw SBC gain record attendances :)
We were beginning to see the light in March.
April showers!
Those long, lovely May days provide a perfect setting for reading.
Aperols and outdoor reading in June.
We took a month off for July - gone swimming at Killiney!
Back to the books in August.
The evenings start to get darker in September - some excellent book choices here.
October vibes, hot drinks, crispy leaves.
Cosy Zoë reading in November.
Our last SBC for the year was a calm one: December.
Silent Book Club ® is a global community of readers, with more than 1400 chapters in 54 countries around the world led by local volunteers. SBC members gather in public at bars, cafes, bookstores, libraries, and online to read together in quiet camaraderie.
Silent Book Club started in San Francisco in 2012 with a couple of friends—Guinevere de la Mare and Laura Gluhanich—reading in companionable silence at our neighborhood bar. We loved books, and reading with friends, but most of our previous attempts at book clubs had fizzled out.
At Silent Book Club, there's no assigned reading. All readers are welcome—ebooks, audiobooks, textbooks, comic books... it's BYOBook. Our events are free and support local businesses. Friends and strangers gather at a set time and location, order food or drinks, share what they're reading, and settle in for an hour of silent, sustained reading. At the end of the hour, attendees can socialize—or not!
Silent Book Club is about community. Everyone is welcome, and anyone can join or launch a chapter. We encourage people all over the world to start their own Silent Book Clubs. All you need is a friend, a comfy public setting, and a book. We have active chapters around the world in cities of all sizes, and new chapters are being launched by volunteers every week.
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It's a gorgeous initiative! I've attended three or four times by now and it's always delightful ✨