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The Country Girls
The Country Girls | Edna O'Brien
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A classic title in Edna O'Brien's Country Girls Trilogy - the first volume It is the early 1960s in a country village in Ireland. Caithleen Brady and her attractive friend Baba are on the verge of womanhood and dreaming of spreading their wings in a wider world; of discovering love and luxury and liquor and above all, fun. With bawdy innocence, shrewd for all their inexperience, the girls romp their way through convent school to the bright lights of Dublin - where Caithleen finds that suave, idealised lovers rarely survive the real world.
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Lindy
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In my most recent booktube video, I talk about books published the year I was born and the year I turned 18.

https://youtu.be/3WdcLOW97v0

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catebutler
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A late dinner this evening, I got caught up in my reads for #SuperSeptember!! Tonight, it‘s a leftover quinoa “risotto” w/ garden veggies, basil & parmesan over penne pasta. I love how this dish transitions from summer to autumn w/ the tomatoes, zucchini & eggplant. It‘s making me long for autumn weather to really stick.🍂 I have about 40 pages left in this book, & then on to the next! I‘m enjoying this coming of age story, set in 1950‘s Ireland.

Palimpsest The book looks good and that dinner sounds so good! I love eggplant. 4y
catebutler @Palimpsest I‘m reading it for an IRL book club, even though we haven‘t meant in person since February!! 😢 And yes! I told myself tonight I really need to find more recipes that utilise eggplant, it‘s delicious!! 4y
Andrew65 Sounds good 👏👏👏 4y
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andrew61
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#booked2020 @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage perfect excuse to pick up this classic for the #bannedbook thread. Incredible to imagine that this story of teenage girls moving from a country village to Dublin was banned in Ireland when today it is more interesting with great characters in caithleen + baba than shocking, but perhaps the idea of girls having sexual thoughts was too much. Will try the next to find out how they fare.

Leftcoastzen Love your review and the old penguin. 4y
Cathythoughts Great review 👍🏻 I‘ve never read this , I must do. 4y
Cinfhen sounds like a perfect read! 4y
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deirdrebeecher
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What if I don't have a house number? *shrug* I'd go by date house was built but we are not entirely sure when that was. I'll go with when my great-granddad bought it.

1890. That's a nice chunk of change.

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emilyhaldi
The Country Girls | Edna O'Brien
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Sometimes books just fall into my amazon cart and show up at my door 🤭🤷🏻‍♀️

kspenmoll 🤣🤣😉 5y
TrishB Funny how that happens. 5y
Cathythoughts One of book club ladies loves this one 👍🏻♥️ 5y
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Megabooks Same here 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ 5y
Reviewsbylola That happened to me yesterday. 😅 5y
Mdargusch Ha! Me too. I need those little houses. 💛 5y
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LaviniaG
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Definitely a pick and an important read, challenging some of the taboos of the 50s and 60s Ireland.

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Tonton
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RowReads1
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#girlsjustwanttohavefun , well alright sometimes have fun😉. @batsy @Cinfhen #fiercefeb

batsy This challenge is reminding me of all the books I want to read and have not 😁 Cool vintage cover! 6y
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RachaelusGilkinius
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I can‘t believe I waited this long to read Edna O‘Brien‘s brilliant first book. Caithleen, our narrator, is a fascinating, complex young woman, & her on again/off again friendship w/ the more middle class Baba is at times both frustrating & charming, a real portrait of young female companionship. Published in 1960, it was censored in Ireland (how dare a woman write about young women and desire, with humor). #readwomen Now on to #2 in the trilogy!

cornfedwellread I remember reading about Edna O'Brien before an IAC book day and thinking her work sounded very interesting. Maybe I'll read this for the Reading Women challenge as well! 6y
RachaelusGilkinius I recommend it highly, and it‘s a pretty quick read, too. So smart and funny. 6y
RaimeyGallant Nice review. :) Welcome to Litsy! #LitsyWelcomeWagon Some of us put together Litsy tips to help new Littens navigate the site. It's the link in my bio on my page in case you're interested. :) 6y
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chapter_fifty2017
The Country Girls | Edna O'Brien
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Went mad at a local book fair ! It was all for a good cause people , nothing to do with my " i just gotta have it " compulsion I loved " country girls , so i got that in big beautiful collection with other stories also met someone who said that he had met edna , he was a jolly irishman, it was great and i wanna go back tomorrow ? but will hav to hav some self control .
But it was soo good !! ???

Cathythoughts Sounds great 👍 a great day out. Even though I'm on kindle I still love to go bookshops and java a look around. This jolly Irishman sounds interesting 😉 7y
chapter_fifty2017 It was a great day out and i hav a kindle too they are great for reading huge tombs and the convenience !!! Well that was an interesting Irishman story but thats where it ended so many people you had to move it or lose it !!! 7y
Cathythoughts @chapter_fifty2017 I haven't read Country Girls. Must give it a try 😉 7y
Laalaleighh I spy a Claire North 🙌🏼 7y
chapter_fifty2017 Thats right ! Have you read it ?? I know she has cred as a good author , thats why i grabbed it . Can you believe that pile of beloved books is still waiting for me to do something with it 😭 7y
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Onioons
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Joanna: That is the thing about Irish people... all feast and then famine.
Kate: That's because we are all descended from kings and queens. #themorethingschange

chapter_fifty2017 One of my most favorite books in the world , luv edna O'Brien 💓 7y
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andrew61
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#readingwomenmonth #classic
Ive tried to pick a few classics from my bookshelves by women. Hopefully it is a broad church on wonderful writing.

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AshleyHoss820
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I read this 2 1/2 years ago and will have to revisit it someday. I'm having trouble remembering too much about it except that I thought it was pretty good...I'll have to give it a so-so rating until I can re-read. 34/1,001 #1001Books

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SarahKat84
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A classic Irish read while I was in Dublin for the week.

Pagesflutter Yay, Edna O'Brien! She was the highlight of my Irish fiction class. 8y
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