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Carry me Down by MJ Hyland


2009
08.20

“Shortlisted for the 2008 Booker prize. Sadly not for me as good as her new novel. If I’d read this first I’d never have read This is How.
This is a family story set in Dublin. We have a traditional dad, neurotic mother, and an odd adolescent son, the later is the protagonist.
It is absorbing and hard to give up un, it plods along, one expect things to happen, but then it ends abruptly and without interest (guess I missed the point).
I’ll read her next.

Score 5/10

Date read August 2009

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The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters


2009
07.20

“Described as a chilling ghost story. It has had lots of positive reviews.
As for chilling, the ghost story left me cold. Every time you get the feeling the story is about to take off in classic ‘Water’s’ style she goes all rational on me and by using a lower middle class character who constantly analyses the super natural. So is the book become a story about the decline of the upper class at the end of WW2.
I expected so much more.

Score 4.5/10

Date read July 2009

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A story by Richard Bach


2009
06.20

“This my second reading of this book. I’m not sure I relate to its intended meaning, it seems so obvious that I’m looking for some hidden meaning!
Hey, give it a read and feel spiritually up-lifted.

Score 5/10

Date read June 2009

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This is How by MJ Hyland


2009
06.20

“Hooray a good book! Best this year by a country mile.
So why did I like it so much?
Told in the first person – Patrick has been dumped by his girl friend and leaves home for new start. He arrives in a seaside guesthouse. Things fall apart and poor old Patrick finds himself in prison. But this is not a mystery but a sinister story, which the pages fly by.
For me his voice is the key to its success.
Read more by her…Yes.

Score 8.5/10

Date read June 2009

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