This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

Joe_ Public

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

That's kind of how I feel about this one. Like I'm not overly invested in the characters but I don't feel the need to abandon it either.

What kind of bugged me a little about the first one was you have all these folk disappearing, just like that as Tommy might have once said, and nobody in the press or the Gardai seems to take much of an interest in it, or at least that we're told anyway. I guess that mightn't be a huge thing for most people, but I just couldn't get past it for some reason.

Callan57

House of Names by Colm Toibin

eire4

Finished Isaac Asimov's I Robot. Enjoyed it a fun introduction to his robot series.

marienbad

And Yet .... Essays - Christopher Hitchens

Earthly Remains - Donna Leon

Callan57

Finished House of Names ... truly superb

Next is When Light is Like Water by Molly McCloskey

Sheridan81

Netherland by Joseph O Neill.

Tis good.

Fathom

The Unseen World
by Liz Moore

Xofpod

Terrible title aside, this is some the best writing I've come across in a long time.

Xofpod wrote: »

Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood.

Callan57

Skintown by Ciaran McMenamin

accensi0n

Forces of nature by Brian cox.

Solomon Pleasant

I've just finished "Until Victory Always" by Jim Mcguiness, the man responsible for Donegal's incredible rise within the GAA landscape.

The book charts Donegal's rise from being regarded as little more than a joke within the GAA to being the most formidable and focused team in Ireland. It explains how McGuinness motivates players and implements tactics that result in toppling the superpowers of Dublin and Kerry.

This book is outstanding in every sense of the word.

lockman

Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy. Excellent.

Fathom

A Feast for Crows (2005)
by George R. R. Martin

(Started it earlier. Put it down. Now beginning again)

marienbad

The Irish Times : 150 Years of Influence Terence Brown

The Supreme Court Ruadhan Mac Cormac

Kurtosis

Reading Butcher's Crossing by John Williams, really powerful writing, finding myself getting immersed in the story.

Joe_ Public

Ian McEwan, Nutshell

Having fun with this, first McEwan book that has impressed me since On Chesil Beach, like him far better when he just has fun and writes as opposed to trying to master complex subjects and mostly failing.

Also a big fan of Annie Proulx but struggling a bit through Barkskins at the moment, can see why several of the reviews I read were less than glowing.

Fathom

Vision in Silver
by Anne Bishop

Callan57

Finished Homegoing ... wow! what a read


Next is The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen

lockman

The Lessons of History, Will and Ariel Durant.

LionelNashe

Absolute Zero Cool by Declan Burke.

The narration switches between two different first person narrators, which is unusual, I think, but there's a reason for it, and there's also another very innovative element to the story. About 80% of the way through it now.

Fathom

LionelNashe wrote: »

Absolute Zero Cool by Declan Burke.

The narration switches between two different first person narrators, which is unusual, I think, but there's a reason for it,

Two POVs? Interesting.

LionelNashe

Fathom wrote: »

Two POVs? Interesting.

Not just two POVs but two first person POVs. I've finished the book now, and while it was worth reading for what was different in it, the device was wasted a bit with an unsatisfying plot. The author does seem to be good in general, and I've seen him post some very good prose lately from something new, so I'll probably try one more.

Fathom

LionelNashe wrote: »

Not just two POVs but two first person POVs.

Will have to examine how he does it LionelNashe. Thanks.

EoghanIRL

Just finished reading 1984.

Blown away by how good this book is.

Is it worth reading his other books (other than animal farm as I already read that)?

Fathom

Handbook of Neuroevolution Through Erlang
by Gene I. Sher

(Heavy but cool. Coffee helpful)

Callan57

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

marienbad

Say Something Back - the latest poetry collection from Denise Riley , and quite outstanding it is too . A Part Song is a longer poem mourning the loss of her adult son Jacob , but that loss suffuses the whole collection . One of the best collections I have read in years and one I will return to again and again in the coming years .

Fathom

Fathom wrote: »

Handbook of Neuroevolution Through Erlang
by Gene I. Sher

(Heavy but cool. Coffee helpful)

Wading slowly page after page. Worthwhile.

autumnbelle

John Grisham The Confession

Thomas__

I finished "A diplomatic history of Ireland, 1948-49, by Ian McCabe" which was informative, had its lenghts though, but nonetheless interesting.


Started to read "Ireland's Invasion of the World: The Irish Diaspora in a nutshell, by Miki Garcia" which covers every continent where Irish people have settled, beyond the usual (Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand). Up to now, an interesting book.