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Amandakay

Acts of Desperation | Megan Nolan

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Raw… heavy… beautiful 🩵

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Gissy

Prophet Song | Paul Lynch

#SpringSkies Day 21 #AwardWinner

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Cool cover 🖤🤍 1d

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ChaoticMissAdventures

Ordinary Human Failings | MEGAN. NOLAN

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This was great. One of the better Women Prize books this year. The story of a troubled family slowly unravels. Each person is interesting and tortured in their own way. At the heart of the story is a horrible something, and a terrible reporter. The writing is solid and the book is heavy but intriguing.

BarbaraBB One of my favorites too. 5d

jlhammar I‘ve only gotten to three so far (hoping to start Enter Ghost next), but I‘d love to see this and Brotherless Night on the shortlist. 4d

ChaoticMissAdventures @jlhammar these are 2 of my favorites too! I just finished and loved

And Then She Fell: A Novel

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Suet624

Ordinary Human Failings | MEGAN. NOLAN

“If you had the bad luck to be from Ireland, it felt, you had to suck it up and never have sex or else have the baby.”

You could also include 21 states in the U.S. where this now applies as well.

Hooked_on_books I‘m disgusted by our country. Parts of it for fighting for this to happen and other parts for sitting back and letting it when the strategy was clear. I can only hope that, like Ireland, there‘s a popular uprising to restore women‘s reproductive rights. It took too long there and no doubt it‘ll take too long here, but hopefully someday. We‘ve certainly already seen that in the states where the voters were allowed to decide. 5d

Suet624 @Hooked_on_books you‘ve said it all. I agree 100%. 5d

vivastory This is what I found so frustrating when people talked about “it could never happen here.“ I'd always point them in the very recent history w/ Ireland 5d

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Amiable Ugh to all of it. It infuriates me. 🤬 5d

Suet624 @vivastory Ireland is better off than the US at this point. 5d

vivastory @Suet624 Yeah, I know things have changed there recently 5d

sarahbarnes Can‘t wait to hear what you think of this one. 5d

JenniferEgnor SCOTUS is hearing the EMTALA case out of Idaho this week. I‘m worried about how they‘ll rule. Hard to believe it‘s 2024 and this is where we‘re at. 4d

Suet624 @JenniferEgnor The Republicans didn‘t allow Obama his right to appoint a Supreme Court judge and then they proceeded to appoint three members who lied to Congress about a woman‘s right to choose as being established law. I have no use for people who vote for Republican candidates after witnessing just how often the Republicans lie and cheat. (edited) 4d

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Suet624

Ordinary Human Failings | MEGAN. NOLAN

I‘m sitting at Safelite getting a new windshield with a bunch of very quiet people. Thankfully they don‘t have a tv on. Suddenly I noticed that both my book and my sweatshirt have the same logo. A bit of overkill? If I‘m lucky the folks will think I work at Galaxy. 😊

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BarbaraBB

The Wild Laughter | Caoilinn Hughes

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It 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

jenniferw88

JenReadsAlot All the posts are exciting and distracting!! 1w

BarbaraBB @JenReadsAlot Right?! 1w

squirrelbrain I can‘t concentrate either… 🤣🤪 1w

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mjtwo

Prophet Song | Paul Lynch

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19 Mar-15 Apr 24
I cannot recall being as frightened by a book since ‘In Cold Blood‘, which aroused a similar feeling that this could just as easily happen to me. As the book begins, Eilish‘s life seems so normal.
Lynch‘s depiction of a totalitarian Ireland is literally gut-wrenching, particularly the final 100 pages which depict the fear and desperation that lead to millions fleeing for a place of refuge. The ending has left me absolutely shaken.

mjtwo I should add this is a completely different book to ‘In Cold Blood‘ and is quite a strange comparison - it has just given me a similar feeling of terror. 1w

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Jas16

Ordinary Human Failings | MEGAN. NOLAN

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A young girl is suspected of killing a younger child and an opportunistic journalist tries to gain information about the tragedy from her family. As he pries and cajoles we are given glimpses into their lives and realize there is was a string of everyday tragedies leading to the present day one. A well executed but bleak rumination.

vivastory I heard about this recently & thought it sounded interesting. 2w

Suet624 Just grabbed this from the library. 2w

sarahbarnes Just got this from the library too @Suet624 2w

Suet624 @sarahbarnes 👍🏻👊🏻👯 2w

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Leniverse

Ordinary Human Failings | MEGAN. NOLAN

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Gorgeously written.
I was worried about the subject matter of this book, dead child & child killer, but it wasn't at all what I feared. No trauma porn. Quite the opposite.
"Us Vs Them", gossip and finger pointing, unscrupulous tabloid reporters, and a very human family making bad decisions. Definitely shortlist material.
#WomensPrize2024 #womensprize

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