The Wild Laughter | 
bailedIt might be the excitement around the nominations for #CampLitsy but I can't get invested in this book and am putting it aside for now. The language, the fact that nothing much happens in the first 100 pages.. I call it quits for now.
#ATY24 - Sound related word in title
#TopTenSummer2023Reads
Great idea @Cinfhen - love seeing everyone's recent faves, even as my TBR groans under the weight! 🤣
pickTW: suicide
Absolutely fantastic. Thoughtful, heart wrenching, with a healthy stab of sharp, dark humour. Following the country's economic collapse in the late 2000s, a family in Ireland faces an impossible choice. They love fiercely, but may not like each other (or anyone else) all that much. It's one of the best books I've read this year. Now excuse me while I go hunt down anything else Caoilinn Hughes has ever written....
"Le do thoil means please unless a woman like Nóra says it."
The humour in this one is sharp and quick and true. Used to cut through all the gritty frustration of reality. I'm absolutely loving it. Hughes is a writer to watch!
"The night the Chief died, I lost my father and the country lost a battle it wouldn't confess to be fighting."
#FirstLineFridays
pickantidote to sentimental novels on rural Ireland. bleak but lyrical novel about toxic masculinity on a sheep farm in a contemporary Ireland. Religion is here but its empty ritual masking the real blood sacrifice of generation after generation of farm men sacrificed to tradition & land hunger. humorous in a bitter way, and Hughes soars to the heights of lyricism at times. She's one to watch
