Port Library, Beloit KS
1718 N. Hersey
PO Box 427
Beloit, Kansas 67420
785-738-3936
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Staff and Board of Trustees
    • History of the Library
    • Contact Form
    • Employment Opportunities
  • Programs
    • Calendar of Events
    • Pre-kindergarten Programs
    • Children's Programs
    • Young Adult Programs
    • Adult Programs >
      • Past Adult Programs
  • Services
    • In House Resources >
      • In-House Public Access Computers and Wireless Internet
    • Genealogy
    • Friends of the Library
    • Reader's Advisory
    • BLOG - Port Picks, Reviews, and other Announcements
  • Policies
    • New Library Cards
    • Check out times, limits, and fines
    • Board Meeting Minutes
    • Policy Manual Selections
  • Collection
    • Catalog - Port Library's Online Public Access Catalog
    • Downloadable E-Books and Audiobooks
    • Databases via the State Library of Kansas

Tara Road by Maeve Binchy

2/15/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture
The rotating book van has visited us last week, so be sure to check out our new selection. Also, the library will be closed Monday for President’s Day. We’ll reopen Tuesday at our regular time. For the next few weeks I’ll be highlighting older books in our collection that are from non-American authors.  With the cold weather outside, now is the perfect time to do some arm-chair traveling to distant places.

Maeve Binchy is a popular Irish author, known for her books about relationships and women that reach into the heart of the reader. In 1998 she published Tara Road, a rather long novel that focuses on the lives of two women: Ria from Dublin and Marilyn from Connecticut. Ria is happily married to dashing real estate agent Danny and they have two kids together. Ria’s circle of friends includes several fun characters and Ria is blissfully unaware that life could be any different until Danny announces he’s leaving Ria for his pregnant girlfriend. A chance phone call from a woman named Marilyn Vine in the United States give Ria the chance and excuse to get away from her suddenly complicated life. Marilyn is married to a college professor and has her own career but spends her time trying to keep her prying neighbors and coworkers out of her personal life, shutting her husband out in the process. In an effort to find a chance at solitude, she leaves her husband to his summer work in Hawaii, instead following up on contacting a real estate agent from a vacation to Ireland long ago. Author Binchy does not skimp on the details of each woman’s summer exchange and by then end both have made new friends and realized what’s most important in their lives. This book was made into a movie of the same name in 2005 starring Andie MacDowell, among others. And if the plot sounds familiar The Holiday, another romantic comedy movie from 2006, was released starring Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet.

You can get more great titles to watch, read, listen to, or play with at the Port Library at 1718 N. Hersey in Beloit.
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Port Librarians

    We like books, movies, music, games, and more and would like to tell you what you can get FOR FREE at our library!

    Archives

    August 2020
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013

    RSS Feed