pickI really liked this book. An actress decides to go to Ireland where she lives and alternate version of her life. It‘s a way to deal with the trauma and grief that she never dealt with. I was going to be so mad but the book had a pretty good ending.
pickI unexpectedly loved this!
Rachel‘s a 20-something Irish college student & bookstore employee, who makes the best friend of her life… & a big ol‘ mess. Seeing how these characters change & evolve, while drifting & maintaining loyalty, is a somehow a profound & genuine salve during our era of disconnectedness. I‘m thrilled with how this ends.
The author thanks Dolly Alderton in the acknowledgements & YES; the connection became immediately clear.
We'd been playing for the best part of an hour....
Our private bet was that the loser would organise the funeral. Cormac had sent me a link the week before to an article from the Irish Times. 'Funeral Costs Survive Recession's Deflationary Grip'. The cost of funerals had gone up over three hundred percent in a decade. It might as well have read: 'Despair! But Don't Do Away With Yerselves. "Tis Dear!"
pickMy 2025 Book Bracket!! Next year I am going to do 2 brackets. One for my Bookspin reads and the other for the Mark Twain Awards. I promised my 9 year old granddaughter that I would read all 12 nominees with her this year. I‘m so happy she loves to read.
Thank you so much for this (not so) little box of #naughtylistholidayswap treasures, @KT1432 ! I haven‘t read any of these authors before, so I‘m especially excited about the opportunity to discover some new favorites!
pickSo good! This short holiday novella packs a punch. Thoughtful with beautiful, spare prose, I will be thinking of this for awhile-what makes a person rich and fulfilled and what isn‘t as important as you might think.
In American history, Paul Revere got the word out and helped win the war. If it had been Irish history, his horse would have been struck dead by lightning. 😂
