what book you reading at the moment? (incl poll)

[Matlock]

The Amendments - Niamh Mulvey. It had the bones of a good novel, but it used a device where it shoehorned in events from the characters lives around the various abortion amendment referenda. It didn't work for me, and I felt it took from the novel as a whole 5/10

Someone knows- Michelle McDonagh. Crime fiction, a bit ridiculous but enjoyable all the same. 6/10

Exhibit- RO Qwon. Beautifully written, but for whatever reason I found myself not really caring about any of the characters. Has some lesbian S&M, which may sell it for some folks! 6/10

Just started Claire Keegan's "Antarctica". Too early to tell.

 

[Carmona]

Reading a novel called Close to Home by Michael Magee. Grand, but it's been done loads of times. Belfast based, young lad is bright but held back by family and friends.

 

[Matlock]

Reading a novel called Close to Home by Michael Magee. Grand, but it's been done loads of times. Belfast based, young lad is bright but held back by family and friends.

Read it awhile back and thought the same.

 

[Carmona]

Great minds, M8, innit. Innit though.

 

[Chara021]

Reading ' This much is True'. Miriam Margolyes Autobiography. It's as expected. I can hear her voice and way she speaks as I'm reading it. Lol

Interesting if you like hearing someone's inner thoughts as only one can with Miriam Margolyes. Not to mention some cringe stories of her exploits.

Half way through it at the moment. I reckon from what I have read I will give it an 8/10. Enjoying it tbh. Light reading.

 

[Great-Bit-O-Stuff]

Reading ' This much is True'. Miriam Margolyes Autobiography. It's as expected. I can hear her voice and way she speaks as I'm reading it. Lol

Interesting if you like hearing someone's inner thoughts as only one can with Miriam Margolyes. Not to mention some cringe stories of her exploits.

Half way through it at the moment. I reckon from what I have read I will give it an 8/10. Enjoying it tbh. Light reading.

She was down in the Maritime recently. Saw pictures of it

 

[Crisp Sandwich]

That's the book that put Banville on the map. He has a similar middle-aged, tweed and cords-wearing, vaguely ascendancy-associated, somewhat self-loathing male character as a main player in many of his subsequent classics. It's interesting how many of them can be traced back to his depiction of MacArthur in this book.

Enjoy the prose CrispY - his writing is top-drawer

The prose was delicious indeed. Very enjoyable but I'm not sure that I'm pushed to read anything else of Banville's in the near future. I might come back to the next book in the "Frames" series at some point.


Started reading "Ultra Processed People" - I'm a chapter or so in and already worried that I might be too thick to understand this.

 

[El Guapo]

Holiday reads from this year.

1. Martyr - Kavel Akbar
It's about an American Muslim fella. It's not at all what you presuppose it to be based on the title. Kind of a story of living up to your history and not wishing your life away in fantasy, Kind of a story of living as a foreigner i despite being from the place.but that hardly does it Justice. Unlike much I've read before. It's something of a critics favourite this year and its very good.

2. A Boy in the Water - Tom Gregory
He holds the record for youngest ever to swim the channel he was 11 years and 300 or so days old in 1988. They banned attempts by U16s almost immediately after it so his record is frozen in time. A lovely memoir of a time and place that no longer exists and a tribute to his Coach and the legacy he left. Unexpectedly touching book. Worth a read.

3. Red Rising - Pierce Brown
Sci-Fci job with a list of characters explaining whos who and a map of where shit is in the front cover. One of those.
Its set on Mars and the Galaxy has been terraformed..Society has been split into a colour coded caste system based along classical (Greco-Roman) stylings. Reds are slaves, Blacks are warriors, Golds rule etc etc. it's a romp about a red fella imitating a gold in an attempt to spark a revolution. Its Good fun, I haven't taken on a big series since a song of ice and fire but will definetly finish this one (unless it goes to shit on book 5 or something). I have already started on the second one. HBO have already optioned it and you can see why. Good entertainment.

 

[King Silkbeard]

Book on Spanish Flu.

 

[Matlock]

Baumgartner- Paul Auster. Beautifully written, but from about half way through it just loses the plot (literally!)