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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Lost and Found

The Searcher by Tana French

October 12, 2020 by Jake 5 Comments

A hallmark of Tana French’s incredible body of work is how she will always use spaces in a critical and often harrowing way to her narrative. Wooded forests, the basement of an abandoned building, a rustic home for young academics…there’s always something mystifying and foreboding about how she can take the banal and make it come alive in ways one wouldn’t expect. Here is no exception. Playing with the familiar English/British countryside mystery, French uses rural Ireland set against the mountains. And as might be […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: Ireland, mystery, Tana French, The Searcher

Jake's CBR12 Review No:156 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Ireland, mystery, Tana French, The Searcher ·
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Tana French is back with a vengeance and a penchant for Wild West-isms, and I am HERE. FOR. IT. 

The Searcher by Tana French

October 11, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

This is a safe review; I’ll give you no spoilers and I’ll give you no major plot points- but I will let you know that no, we have not returned to the Dublin Murder Squad. While I found the departure disappointing in The Witch Elm, I found it thrilling here; the idyllic landscape filled with the insidious creep of small town communities. While we have not returned to the Murder Squad, we have returned to having a protagonist on the searching side of the law- and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Western Tagged With: crime, Ireland, justice, return to form, rural life, Small town, Tana French, thriller, throwback, violence

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:108 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Western · Tags: crime, Ireland, justice, return to form, rural life, Small town, Tana French, thriller, throwback, violence ·
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Are you Longing for some Longing?

Normal People by Sally Rooney

September 1, 2020 by Wanderlustful 1 Comment

This was one of Faintingviolet’s top reads of 2019, and I also desperately wanted to watch the Hulu show, especially after Dustin’s review.  They were both right- this book was great. If you haven’t seen the Hulu trailer, this is a teenage/college age lovestory, set first in Sligo, northwest Ireland, and later in Dublin.  The two main characters are flawed but compelling- Marianne is smart, witty, not particularly pretty and uninterested in what other people think about her.  She also has the fortune/misfortune of being […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Cannonballer Says!, cbr12bingo, Ireland, Longing, Normal People, Sally Rooney

Wanderlustful's CBR12 Review No:48 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Cannonballer Says!, cbr12bingo, Ireland, Longing, Normal People, Sally Rooney ·
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The Troubles

Say Nothing: A True Story of Memory and Murder in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

July 5, 2020 by Jake Leave a Comment

Read as part of cbr12 bingo: Pandemic! I’ve wanted to read this one for a bit and it doesn’t really fit in any other category. Few books have had the kind of hype that Say Nothing has been getting the last 12-18 months. It wound up on dozens of “Best Of” lists in 2019. It was recommended by Barack Obama. Friends who read it gushed about it. Given that’s a history tale (yes) about a subject I know little about but am curious of (uh-huh), I knew […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, cbr12bingo, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing, The Troubles, true crime

Jake's CBR12 Review No:109 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, cbr12bingo, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing, The Troubles, true crime ·
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The Other American Dream

American (And the art of getting over it) by Luke Healy

March 24, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

American (And the art of getting over it) by Luke Healy can be slow in a few places. A few times I was feeling as if I was hiking a long, hot and sometimes repetitious trail. But overall the novel-graphic novel memoir is an interesting look at another American Dream. Luke grew up in Ireland with a tight family, quirky and during a time when many young Irish people were leaving Ireland for work in other places. And he had a dream. A dream to […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Canada, hiking, Ireland, Luke Healy, Pacific Crest Trail, West - Pacific (CA//OR/WA)

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:129 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Cooking/Food, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Non-Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Canada, hiking, Ireland, Luke Healy, Pacific Crest Trail, West - Pacific (CA//OR/WA) ·
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Murder at an Irish Wedding has too many annoying cozy clichés

Murder at an Irish Wedding by Carlene O'Connor

March 4, 2020 by pixifer Leave a Comment

Murder at an Irish Wedding is the second book in the Irish Village Mystery series. I absolutely loved the first book, Murder in an Irish Village, when I read it a few years ago. I wanted to continue the series but my local library only had the subsequent novels as mass market paperbacks. I have lupus and its most enduring gift is perpetual hand pain, so I simply can’t hand open mass market paperbacks. Anyway, I was thrilled to discover the entire Irish Village Mystery […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Carlene O'Connor, cozy, Fiction, humor, Ireland, murder, mystery, Romance

pixifer's CBR12 Review No:18 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Carlene O'Connor, cozy, Fiction, humor, Ireland, murder, mystery, Romance ·
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