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Making up for 10 Lost Years

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  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    3. Esio Trot by Roald Dahl.

    4. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett.


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    5. A Beautiful Poison by Lydia Kang.


    6. The Conjurer by Luanne G. Smith.


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    7. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Ju.

    I couldn't put this down. I had no idea Korea ranked so lowly for gender equality.


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    8. Columbine by Dave Cullen.


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    9. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro.

    I loved this book. I couldn't put it down. It is set in a dystopian world where children have 'AFs', artificial friends and where society is more inequitable than today.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    10. Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan.

    Honestly, not an exciting read at all.


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    11. Jew (ish) by Matt Greene.

    An interesting read on what it means to be Jewish.


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    12. The Last Girl by Nadia Murad.

    Harrowing.


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    13. My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress by Rachel DeLoache Williams.


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    14. The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman.


    15. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 15,696 ✭✭✭✭y0ssar1an22


    you could give wheel of time a spin. think there's about 13 (pretty chunky) books in it.

    fantasy like LOTR, but moreso


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    you could give wheel of time a spin. think there's about 13 (pretty chunky) books in it.

    fantasy like LOTR, but moreso

    Cool, thanks for the recommendation! Will definitely give them a look!


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    16. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell.


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    17. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata.

    Very quirky!


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,322 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    A lot of Genocide & Childrens books on these lists so not sure who is reading this & if mine is appropriate :

    I’m reading ‘Devils Knot’ by Mara Leveritt. I’d seen a documentary on the subject a few years back but the book is just spine chilling.

    Its a journalist writing about her/his (Mara!?) investigating of the arrest, subsequent investigation or lack thereof and trial of 3 teenagers - some with solid alibis - for the murder of 3 other little boys in a dirt poor part of West Memphis where most of the people had little education, less employment, and righteous commitment to the Church . A $35,000 reward was offered for any information leading to arrests and the police and local juvenile officer put out a rumour there was witchcraft involved...

    True story and bone chilling. I’m going to need another kilo of chocolate or bucket of valium to try and get over it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 659 ✭✭✭bamayang


    You're burning through them! I really enjoyed Educated, crazy story. There are questions about the truthfulness of it, but for the sake of the read I just assumed it was all true.


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    18. The Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-hwan.


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    A lot of Genocide & Childrens books on these lists so not sure who is reading this & if mine is appropriate :

    I’m reading ‘Devils Knot’ by Mara Leveritt. I’d seen a documentary on the subject a few years back but the book is just spine chilling.

    Its a journalist writing about her/his (Mara!?) investigating of the arrest, subsequent investigation or lack thereof and trial of 3 teenagers - some with solid alibis - for the murder of 3 other little boys in a dirt poor part of West Memphis where most of the people had little education, less employment, and righteous commitment to the Church . A $35,000 reward was offered for any information leading to arrests and the police and local juvenile officer put out a rumour there was witchcraft involved...

    True story and bone chilling. I’m going to need another kilo of chocolate or bucket of valium to try and get over it.

    'Devils Knot' sounds interesting. I must add it to my list. I read about this story a few years ago and I did query the role of some of the parents in the murders.


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    bamayang wrote: »
    You're burning through them! I really enjoyed Educated, crazy story. There are questions about the truthfulness of it, but for the sake of the read I just assumed it was all true.

    I am very determined to try read as much as possible. I really feel I missed out over the last few years where I put work first.

    I was questioning the veracity of parts of it while reading it. Though, if even half of it is true, it is still crazy! I'm around the same age as the woman so it was mindboggling for me to think her life was like that as a child and teenager in the same era as me.


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    19. The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    20. The Darkest Flower by Kristin Wright.

    Fairly predictable.


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    21. Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman.

    It was a hard slog to get through the first 2 parts.


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    22. Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami.


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    23. Circe by Madeline Miller.


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    24. Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker.

    An interesting look at the Galvin family where there were 10 boys, 6 of which developed schizophrenia.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,102 ✭✭✭PMBC


    24. Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker.

    An interesting look at the Galvin family where there were 10 boys, 6 of which developed schizophrenia.

    That seems interesting although strange
    Ive just finished a re-read from 40 odd years ago Valley of the Squinting and on a more modern topic Saving Capitalism- for the many not the few by Clinton's Labour Secretary Robert Reich.
    When Im in full swing I read one a day or at least one per two days - never bored


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    PMBC wrote: »
    That seems interesting although strange
    Ive just finished a re-read from 40 odd years ago Valley of the Squinting and on a more modern topic Saving Capitalism- for the many not the few by Clinton's Labour Secretary Robert Reich.
    When Im in full swing I read one a day or at least one per two days - never bored

    One a day is very impressive!

    I have never heard of Valley of the Squinting. I must look it up.


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    25. Nowhere to be Found by Bae Suah.

    A Korean novella depicting poverty, suffering, existentialism.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,102 ✭✭✭PMBC


    Apologies - The valley of the squinting windows. Its based around Delvin in Westmeath and that caused a lot of issues at the time.
    From the Irish canon also but a totally different style is anything by Flann O'Brien - At Swim Two Birds, The Dalkey Archive and perhaps the funniest The Third Policeman.
    From USA 'A confederacy of Dunces' will keep you laughing. Sorry for going on ..


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  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    PMBC wrote: »
    Apologies - The valley of the squinting windows. Its based around Delvin in Westmeath and that caused a lot of issues at the time.
    From the Irish canon also but a totally different style is anything by Flann O'Brien - At Swim Two Birds, The Dalkey Archive and perhaps the funniest The Third Policeman.
    From USA 'A confederacy of Dunces' will keep you laughing. Sorry for going on ..


    Some great recommendations there. Thank you! I'm intrigued by 'Valley of the Squinting Windows'. Going to try get a copy in Chapters.


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