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‘I Spy the Stranger‘ by Jean Rhys

Set in Ireland in 1994, The Coast Road follows two women coping with their unhappy marriages at a time when divorce is still illegal. Collette left her husband, but returned, and now her husband won‘t allow her access to her children and she lives in poverty. Izzy is frustrated and miserable, struggling to find autonomy within the confines of a marriage she cannot escape. Both are considering the high cost of personal freedom. An excellent debut.

Combination of 2 Little Free Library scores the last Thursday of the school holidays when I treated myself to a Stockton op shop. I caught the ferry over and had a lovely morning to myself.

This is a beautiful book.
It starts with a man lying on a battlefield who‘s lost all feeling in his extremities and his mind drifts off to memories. The chapters skip back and forth in time and places creating a fractured storyline. The connections in the chapters include generations of family and friends, photography, war, art weaving in and out right up to present day. It‘s poetically written and so lovely. AM is so talented

#Two4Tuesday 1. So far just milk chocolate pumpkin balls for household consumption- maybe the actual trick or treat candy this week 1. War, memories, dying. @AmyG @dabbe @Tamra wanna play ?

My library holds aren‘t really aligning with my October reading goals 🤷🏻‍♀️

The ideas and the bones of a great novel are here, but the execution felt somehow soulless.

This is a story about women's lives in the brink of the divorce referendum in Ireland, and about the men who deeply fear the loss of control that women's freedom of choices signifies. It should rage and burn, but it fails to ignite. Most of the characters feel like blanks, and I just could not bring myself to care.

This book follows the lives of three women in a small coastal Ireland town, Ardglas. It follows their broken lives in the year or two before Ireland legalizes divorce. I didn't realize that divorce wasn't legal in Ireland until 1996! Not the typical book I'd pick up - but it was beautifully written and a fairly easy and quick read. The families in this town lead sad lives and I was quickly drawn in by the descriptive writing. I enjoyed this book.

A short novel that covers several generations in a family and up until the halfway point, we followed along the family lines. Then started the time jumps and I also had trouble placing the different people in the family.

If it hadn‘t been for the Booker prize and that my library had the book, I never would‘ve read it. So I don‘t think I was the right reader for this one.

Hello,' he said and walked straight to the end of the table where he hung his anorak on the back of the chair.

Under the stairs, she thought, under the stairs. They had the same conversation every evening about him hanging his anorak under the stairs .... he pulled some letters and his diary and keys from the pocket of his anorak and piled them on the table. Say nothing, she said to herself, say nothing.