First days at the Room

The StillRoom opened.

Gillian and I had our first tea, one peppermint and one vanilla tea, on Monday evening during the first Library night of the Room and yesterday Sandra gave her first yoga class.

The Room is almost fully finished, I still want to add few details, but I believe that its feeling is already quite right: it feels warm and relaxing and I believe that the first person that came last night for yoga was quite lucky to have a one to one yoga class. I take this opportunity to thank her for being the first person to attend one of our classes. I hope there will be soon more people who will join us soon.

For the Library night, I’m thinking to start a book club and a writing club every second Monday and maybe if there is any interest starting some foreign language conversation.

For the book club, I’m thinking that it would be nice to choose to read books from authors around the world, a bit like a fictional journey “around the world in 80 books”, even though maybe to make it more manageable, our target could be maybe 10 books. This journey could start from East, maybe from big Russia then proceed to some northern European writer and continue to German speaking countries stopping in the Mediterranean area for a bit of sun, going to France and then across then the sea and the Ocean to land in the English speaking land. Then we could move down to the colourful and magic land of Latin America and again across  another Ocean to stop for a visit in the far east, to finally heading back towards what now is west, and, passing through India and the Middle East, end our travel in the hard and soulful African continent.

If anybody wants to suggest book from the different countries/language please send us your list, already choosing the books will be fun and exciting.

For the writing club, it would be nice to share short stories and fairy tales for our little ones, but this is just a brainstorming, so every new idea is welcome.

Our books

The selection of books is not very big, but we hope to expand it soon. Our books are mostly bought from Charity shops around Dublin, in this way we also help the community. We dream to have all walls of our Room full of books one day.

Here you can find the list of the books available at our second-hand bookshop, you can read this books in the Room during the opening hours of our library:
Book for sale - catalogue

Here you can find teh list of the books available for loan from our library, if you choose you can read this books in the Room during the opening hours of our library or you can bring them home:
Library - Online catalogue






If you wish to join our library you will just need to become a member, details of the membership will be detailed in a new post to come.

With your membership you will help us to eventually extend the time the Room is open to public and to continue to expand the selection of books available for sale and for consultation at our Library.

Our Second-hand Bookshop.

At The StillRoom you can find new and  like-new books either to buy or to take it on loan.

Our second-hand bookshop,

In our second-hand bookshop, we do our best to offer a small selection of interesting titles ranging from historical to general fiction, passing through crime, romance non-fiction and a bit of world literature. The books are all in a very good condition displayed in tidy, clean and orderly way. 

  

The books for sale are separated in different sections we call rooms:     

The yellow room - Non fiction

The blue room - General Fiction

The red room - Classics and historical fiction

The White Room - International Autors

The rainbow room - Children and Fariy tales

The rose room - Romance

The dark room - Crime and thriller fiction

 

From the link below, you will be able soon to open the list of the books currently available in our bookshop.

(link not available yet)

 

If you feel that we have misclassified anything or that we should add any titles please contact us, we always welcome any advises and critics given in a gentle way. We are aware that we are not experts and that we make mistakes, we do not try to be perfect but we love books and we would love to be able to offer the best services we can, so we need your help.

Why books.

There are books we love;
books we hate;
books we could not stop reading and books we could not finish no matter how much effort we put into it;
books that remind us a special moment;
books that we read and re-read and everytime they tell us something new and different;
books whose stories appeal to us, but we end up not reading it because we do not like the writing style;
books, we thought, were not worth the effort, which, instead, surprised us;
books we read during some holidays and we then forgot;
books which we won't ever forget;
books that will teach us something;
books which will make us furious and bitter;
books which will give us hope;
books which will make us laugh aloud like silly or cry like babies;
...
and then there is sometime  a very special book, that might change our life, the way we look at the world and at ourselves and which will enlighten us.

Books can be our companion,
they can be our fantasy and reality,
they can be mystery and discovery,
they can be safe and dangerous,
they can give us freedom to create something different.

This is why books are so important to me and are part of "The StillRoom" vision.
Because, I believe that they can create the right environment in which our life can blossom.

I hope we can share and enjoy them, I hope we can learn about new ones we didn't know about and rediscover some that were forgotten .

I will publish soon the list of books that are available for sale and the list of books which will be available for loan once "The StillRoom" will be open. If you have in mind some special book you wish to add please send me a note and I will see if I can find it at a reasonable price.