DCU Student Book Club

Connect with the DCU student community through the love of reading over a light lunch! 

This new book club series gives you the opportunity to discuss a book with like-minded people and to share your thoughts with the author in a relaxed and social gathering. There’s no cost to join; all you need are the books. DCU Office of Student Life will have a select number of books available to borrow from the SU, and the DCU library will also have books in stock. So whether you borrow a copy from the library, buy your own print copy, download it to your tablet, or access it via Borrowbox, the format is up to you! 

We'd love if you had a chance to read the book but you are more than welcome to come along if you haven't.

For this first book club series for students, DCU has partnered with the One Dublin One Book initiative 2024 to feature the book Snowflake by Louise Nealon. Louise will be joining us to have a vibrant discussion about the book.

About the book

Louise Nealon’s debut ‘coming of age’ story follows a young woman’s transition from a dairy farm in rural Kildare to the decidedly urban and relentlessly urbane surroundings of Trinity College in Dublin. Normally applied condescendingly by Baby Boomers to millennials, the term ‘snowflake’, according to the book’s blurb, refers to someone who is ‘sensitive, complicated, intense, flawed’. A startling, honest, laugh and cry novel about growing up and leaving home, only to find that you’ve taken it with you, Snowflake is a novel for a generation, and for everyone who’s taken those first, terrifying steps towards adulthood. Winner of Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2021.

‘Snowflake is clever, witty, wryly elegant and full of emotional truth’. (Irish Independent)