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3. Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games - teach teens so had to read this to see what they were all raving about.

4. Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart - been meaning to read this - such a seminal...

I'm Irish and there are the writers you all know - Yeats, Heaney, Joyce, Beckett, Stoker. There are more that I enjoy - John Montague, Patrick Kavanagh (poets), Colm Toibin, Sheridan Le Fanu, John...

Count me in - longtime absent poster determined to get involved again!

So far this year, 2 new authors:

Philip Roth (hangs head in shame at never having read him) - Nemesis
Hans Fallada -...

I LOVE that shop! Discovered it on a trip to NYC thanks to my cousin.

Love Hodges Figgis too - but they're pricing themselves out of it at the mo...

Des femmes de son âge, mariées, divorcées, plus jeunes.

Only twice - and I knew I was being shamelessly manipulated into blubbing but still couldn't help it!

I'd be hoping somewhere around 30 - 40 ...

So the shortlist for the Dublin Literary Impac Award is as follows:


Galore by Michael Crummey
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
Ransom ...

I came through John F. Kennedy Airport in a long necklace and an Afghan coat, carrying a torn copy of Howl.

Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann

Chest

So did you celebrate your birthday or mourn the author's passing?

That is a new bridge in our city called The Samuel Beckett Bridge - I think the shape of it is designed to evoke the image of a harp... Or am I wrong on that Niamh?

Loved that too - saw the film for the first time last weekend and it left me disappointed.

Though I mostly read prose, it's actually poetry that I turn to for comfort - the Romantics, Dryden (!) or Yeats or Heaney...

My comfort novel is Jane Eyre - a childhood favourite

Isn't that the Irish way at the moment? I'm very cynical!!

It's the kids who collected all the tokens on Rice Krispies for the Hughes and Hughes books that I feel sorry for!:incazzato:;)

What...

It's from the Irish Times on the 14th of April - can't find the link at the mo:confused5:..... I think maybe it's the paper's own awards but I'm not sure.

Really surprised by the range of books on...

Shortlist for the Irish Book of the Decade Award:

The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor
Winterwood by Patrick McCabe
Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle...

So sorry to hear this Niamh - I thought of you immediately after I heard they'd gone into receivership.... :grouphug:

Why not?

The Book Thief brought a tear to my eye but The Time Traveller's Wife got me at the very end.... I think I'm a little bit embarrassed to say it!:blush:

My condolences on the passing of your mother.

This is a quote I took from a short story "Matters of Life and Death 2: Visiting Takabuti" from the collection Matters of Life and Death by Bernard...

The fact that it was so obvious that Engleby was the perpetrator actually made me a little impatient with the novel for the first while. I wonder whether that was because the edition I borrowed from...

Finally finished this last night and as promised Scheherazade I'm going to let you know what I thought of it - but I'd also love to know how other people reacted.

(SPOILER ALERT!)
Obviously the...

Engleby Sebastian Faulks