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> Tag: Claire Keegan

“Was it possible that the best bit of him was shining forth, and surfacing?”

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

February 14, 2023 by Ellesfena 2 Comments

The book: Bill Furlong owns a company that delivers coal to the residents of a small town in Ireland in the 1980s. Furlong (as he’s mostly referred to in the book) is married, has 5 daughters, and had an unusual upbringing (an unmarried mother, he was raised by her and her employer and doesn’t know his father–not an easy childhood in mid-century Ireland). One day, when he’s delivering coal to the local convent, Bill finds something that disturbs him and forces him to make a […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Claire Keegan, Ireland

Ellesfena's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Claire Keegan, Ireland ·
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Claire Keegan (1)

Foster by Claire Keegan

January 27, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

“Early on a Sunday, after first Mass in Clonegal, my father, instead of taking me home, drives into deep Wexford towards the coast where my mother’s people came from.” This is a novella published by Claire Keegan, who was nominated for the Booker Prize last year for other short novella Small Things like These. Both novellas are good, but then one I liked better for its general tenderness. The other one is a Christmas story and I read it in the summer, so I might […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Claire Keegan

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Claire Keegan ·
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Two beautiful stories about family

Schmuel's Bridge by Jason Sommer

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

November 12, 2022 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

It is quite an undertaking to excavate our parents sorrow. To do so with a parent who has been through one of the worst tragedies in history, is something enormous. This was a fascinating experience for me to read about a man who I know only as a father to share what it is like for him, only as a son. The author’s son is a student at my school, and I have had the pleasure of having meetings with Jason and his wife (I […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction Tagged With: Claire Keegan, Jason Sommer

booktrovert's CBR14 Review No:109 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction · Tags: Claire Keegan, Jason Sommer ·
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“to each was given days and chances which wouldn’t come back around”

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

September 17, 2022 by tiny_bookbot Leave a Comment

CBR Bingo: Cold Well, the semester started, and away with it went my brain, or at least the part of it I use for writing. Still! I’ve been reading! So time to eke out a review or two before I crumble. Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These came to my attention along with Audrey Magee’s The Colony when it was long listed for the Booker Prize. Magee didn’t make the shortlist, but Keegan did, and Small Things Like These has the honor of being the shortest novel to ever […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr14bingo, Claire Keegan

tiny_bookbot's CBR14 Review No:25 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, Claire Keegan ·
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Some

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Rizzio by Denise Mina

This way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski

Being There by Jerzy Kosinski

Hits and Misses by Simon Rich

Proto Zoa by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Last Days of August by Jon Ronson

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: Or, How Capitalism Works - and How It Fails by Yanis Varoufakis

August 3, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR14Bingo – Shadow – In the novel, even though it’s ostensibly about the “Buffalo Bill” killings, Hannibal Lecter is always there and always present in mind. – Silence of the Lambs – 3/5 Stars This is a book that for some godforsaken reason my seventh grade English teacher not only let me read for a class assignment but also let me make a stick-figure puppet theater for key scenes. The early 1990s were the Wild Wild West truly. It’s an interesting book that is mostly […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, cbr14bingo, Claire Keegan, denise mina, elephant, Jerzy Kosinski, Jon Ronson, lois mcmaster bujold, shadow, simon rich, Tadeusz Borowski, Thomas Harris, Yanis Varoufakis

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:430 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Antoine de Saint-Exupery, cbr14bingo, Claire Keegan, denise mina, elephant, Jerzy Kosinski, Jon Ronson, lois mcmaster bujold, shadow, simon rich, Tadeusz Borowski, Thomas Harris, Yanis Varoufakis ·
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  • Flimflamingo on When You Don’t Know What To Do, Sometimes a Cup of Tea Is the Right Place To Start.I read the title and was sure you were writing about Becky Chambers' Robot and Monk novellas. LOL. I have a feeling I'm adding this...
  • MsWas on When You Don’t Know What To Do, Sometimes a Cup of Tea Is the Right Place To Start.LOVE this book title, will have to look for it. Are you doing a tea-themed CBR15?
  • Suzi on For such a warm title, this one left me coldI totally agree with your synopsis! I am a die hard fan and was looking SO forward to this book!! It was so disappointing; it...
  • narfna on The Velveteen Rabbit, Unanticipated Puppet Gore, and The Stages of GriefYeah, I read it back in January! And you did comment on it. I feel like it is a comfy book! Um, sort of. Minus...
  • Flimflamingo on The Velveteen Rabbit, Unanticipated Puppet Gore, and The Stages of GriefDidn’t you just read it too? I think I commented on your review (I’m too lazy to check rn!). I ended up just wanting something...
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