Reading Circle: Strong Personalities

What actually defines a strong personality? That question is the focus of this reading circle at Arden Library, where we read books with distinctive main characters at the centre.

The characters span time, gender, and life situations, but share the quality of standing out in their own way - some by breaking with norms, others by holding true to themselves under pressure. Strength appears here in many forms: as stubbornness, vulnerability, integrity, or the will to live on one's own terms, not only as action or physical courage.

Some of the book's main characters are easy to love, others may seem off-putting - but all of them provide material for discussing what strength really means. Certain characters stick with you long after you've closed the book.