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#73
Always nice to settle down with a good Maeve book. Very enjoyable

Cute!

My #doublespin for November.

I loved Nora Webster, so I expected to enjoy this more. Unfortunately I got really bored with it and stopped at about 70%, but I‘m going to try the movie to get the end of the story. I know bookworms, possibly a bit taboo, but I‘m just not into the book.

This is my mom‘s Zoey. She‘s staying with me while Mom travels for the holiday. Yes she has yogurt on her face😆. She‘ll be having a bath tomorrow.

Contrariness is a value I embrace when it is to help another human being. I may have to purchase as gifts.

Random book from our personal library.

Enright is a mystery to me. I always want to enjoy her books but they always end up being a muddle in my mind. This story revolves around a single mother and her daughter and the legacy left behind by the mother‘s father, a famous poet who has callously left all of them behind. Some of the writing was wonderful and yet I always feel removed from the emotion Enright is trying to elicit from me. It‘s a low pick. #offtheshelf #TenBeforetheEnd

My 5th #10beforetheend

This is my 2nd Enright title and I don‘t think she‘s for me.

The writing is excellent, but the story is fragmented, nonlinear and an example of the unreliability of memory.

Narrated by the middle-aged daughter in an Irish family of 12 children. When her brother dies, she has to reckon with her past, her grief, her anger… I‘m sure many readers will come away with a clear idea of what really happened, but I‘m clueless.

A soft pick. A coming-of-age story set in a small village in Ireland in the early 90s. Lucy is in high school, falling desperately in love with her girlfriend Susannah, and struggling to deny her sexuality and pursue the life expected of her. It is intense and full of angst, totally capturing the obsessive nature of those tumultuous teenage feelings. We see Lucy unable to embrace her authentic self and the toll it takes as she tries to fake it.

Siobhan is catering for parts of a 3-day wedding celebration up at the castle. In the 1st day the best man is found murdered. Lots of red herrings flare but she continues to fight for the truth. I thought I was crazy early on, but it turns out I was onto the murderer from the start.

This book was a relief after just finishing a long and tedious novel. A murder victim is found in the restaurant that is run by the main character and her siblings. One of the brothers is blamed. I enjoyed the characters and the pacing and brown bread is so often remarked upon that I really wish I could have some.