so-soThe plot didn‘t interest me, but everyone kept raving about it and then it won the Women‘s Prize. The narration took a while to get used to, and it‘s quite long. I‘ve also just read two YA novels about foster care & opioid epidemic, so it all felt a bit too much.
Good book, just not a book for me.
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Latest book club selection. Esther posing with my audio version. #DogsofLitsy #EstherFest #whpg #GriffDog #WomensPrize #BookClub
And the winner is... 🏆
#WomensPrize
Oh go on then...
https://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/features/features/watch-the-2023-winner-...
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The winner of the #WomensPrize will be announced today, and I am hesitant to attempt a prediction. Instead I present my personal top six. Four of them are on the official shortlist, and I'll be happy if either of them win. (Conversely there's a 1/3 chance that the announcement will make me a serious grumpy face 😒) I am, however, rooting slightly more for Fire Rush than for the others. 🔥🎶
I‘m putting my #womensprize wish out into the bookish universe. I‘d love to see one of these win on Wednesday (June 14).
I won‘t be too sad though if Trespasses or Demon Copperhead win instead. Both great. I‘m still waiting on the audiobook for Fire Rush. I wasn‘t feeling Pod.
Listening to Maggie O'Farrell last night (on catch up) talking about visiting the grave of her RL character in Italy.
The nuns said no one ever asked to visit the grave. 😢
I want to listen to all the other shortlist interviews now!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001mll9
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This is very well done. The writing, setting, characters are all rich and haunting. Set in Ireland during The Troubles Cushla and Michael are having an affair.
The book is dark - and some will not like it due to lack of quotation marks - alcoholism, affairs, civil war. But it is also a bit sweet as she tries to care for the family of a student and her ill mother.
It took me longer to read than it should have but 4⭐
I don't know why I've been dragging my feet so much on this one. It's not like I haven't read a 600+ page book before. It's not like I haven't read David Copperfield before. (Actually, that might be part of it.) It's not like I haven't read Barbara Ki... Wait, I have never read Kingsolver before. Anyway, I'm running out of time. The winner of the #WomensPrize will be announced in a fortnight. I'm going in.
