Described as a “happy hour for introverts” on its website, the Silent Book Club (SBC) has over 1,000 chapters in 50 countries. ... At Letters, the silent reading hour began earlier this year.

While the other letters chattered and cracked jokes, she was silent as the morning breeze, observant and introverted. Not a single word in Turkish can start with this letter. She can be written ...

I approached ‘Silent Letter’ – a work of historical fiction by Yitzchak Mayer (Mosaic Press) with a certain caution – but I soon was won over.

Silent letters appear in many commonly used words. For example, the ‘K’ is missing from the pronunciation of words like knife, knee, knock, knowledge, and more.

Read ‘em and weep: Albemarle CiderWorks in North Garden offers a book club for the rest of us. The cidery’s Silent Book Club meets from 12:30 to 3 p.m. Sunday in the Orchard Room.