Three Books, One Post
consistently reading more than i can blog (or do anything else)
Tag: Irish literature
The Sign of the Cross by Colm Tóibín
a book almost squarely aimed at me
The Blood Miracles by Lisa McInerney
a good but simpler follow up to The Glorious Heresies
Maiden by Karina Bush
poetry review PLUS why I am now a poet
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
We need to talk about how you wouldn’t get a literary novelist called Kevin in England
A Shorter Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, ed. Anthony Burgess
Can Burgess turn this tough novel into a frothy paperback? No.
Distracted Holiday Book Review: The Fields by Kevin Maher and Season One of Game of Thrones
Kevin Maher’s The Fields is a hilarious, moving and impressively broad coming of age novel set (mostly in Dublin) inContinue Reading
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín
Today I read Colm Tóibín’s 2013 novella, The Testament of Mary. It’s very short, 104 pages in this edition, with pretty bigContinue Reading
Shall We Gather At The River by Peter Murphy
I picked this novel up from a massive pile of free books offered by my university a few weeks beforeContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 