Book Salad

Book Salad meets on the last Tuesday of every month. To make a salad you put together lots of different things you'd like to eat, and we do the same. So every month, instead of reading one kind of book, we mix genres. We tend to read mostly imaginative fiction but occasionally we pick non-fiction, even more occasionally a graphic novel, by authors from different ages and backgrounds.

For our August book, we will read 'Ghost Mountain' by Ronan Hession, which I heard of when Leanne put a copy into my hand a few months ago. It is an unusual book that has stuck with me, and which I found funny and profound, after initially suspecting I might not enjoy it. - David

Ghost Mountain's publisher is Blue Moose Books, whose blurb describes it like this:

"Ghost Mountain is a mountain that appeared yesterday, changing the lives of the local people; the town drunk, a retired teacher and her dog, a young soul and his wife, an old soul.

It is a story about all that is unmistakenly present yet never truly fathomable in our lives."

And, in the The Irish Times: "We are very lucky there are novels like this being written in Ireland today."