From the Great Blasket to America: The Last Memoir by an Islander
Michael J. Carney and Gerald Hayes
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Mike Carney, the oldest living native Blasket Islander, was born on the Great Blasket Island in...
The Best Beer in the World: One Man's Global Search for the Perfect Pint
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What's the best beer you've ever tasted? What's your favourite beer? Where can I drink your...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Travelers in Books
Sep 8, 2021
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The Travelers
By Chris Pavone
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It’s 3:00am. Do you know where your husband is?
Meet Will Rhodes: travel writer, recently married, barely solvent, his idealism rapidly giving way to disillusionment and the worry that he’s living the wrong life. Then one night, on assignment for the award-winning Travelers magazine in the wine region of Argentina, a beautiful woman makes him an offer he can’t refuse. Soon Will’s bad choices—and dark secrets—take him across Europe, from a chateau in Bordeaux to a midnight raid on a Paris mansion, from a dive bar in Dublin to a mega-yacht in the Mediterranean and an isolated cabin perched on the rugged cliffs of Iceland. As he’s drawn further into a tangled web of international intrigue, it becomes clear that nothing about Will Rhodes was ever ordinary, that the network of deception ensnaring him is part of an immense and deadly conspiracy with terrifying global implications—and that the people closest to him may pose the greatest threat of all.
It’s 3:00am. Your husband has just become a spy.
I can appreciate where and what the author was trying to do but this just didn’t grab me at all! It was a hard slog through. Two stars may seem a bit mean and I would encourage people to at least give it a go especially if you enjoy spy novels.
In My Room: The Human Journey as Encountered by a Psychiatrist
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'The room is a space for the mind, and a metaphor for the mind at the same time. Most of us will...
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ClareR (5603 KP) rated Conversations With Friends in Books
Oct 28, 2019
Frances seems to be a very unapproachable person. She doesn’t give OF herself, but expects everyone to respond towards her with love. Which must be hard work. Her youth really comes across when she talks about never wanting to work and not wanting or needing money - and then later her father stops paying her allowance. She realises then just what having no money is really like. There are other hints at her mental state. She talks about self-harming, and she seems reluctant to talk to either Bobbi or Nick about her feelings for them (my theory is that her parents separation is responsible for this). She’s not a particularly likeable character, and writing this has made me realise that I actually seem to like books where the main characters just aren’t particularly nice. Perhaps I just want to see why people are like this?
Anyway, I listened to this on Audible as I read along (when I could), and I really liked the narrator, Aoife McMahon. She’s engaging, has a really nice voice and there was never any doubt in my mind that she was a good choice. She really made this book for me.
I can see why there was such a buzz around this book when it first came out, because I enjoyed it too!
Diarmuid Lynch: A Forgotten Irish Patriot
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On Saturday night 22 April 1916, a tense meeting in Dublin went on into the small hours to decide...
Lugs Branigan
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Born in the Liberties of Dublin in 1910, Jim Branigan was, by his own admission, a shy, scrawny...