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Erika (17789 KP) rated A Long Long Way in Books

Mar 22, 2020  
A Long Long Way
A Long Long Way
Sebastian Barry | 2005 | Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics
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6.0 (1 Ratings)
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I got this nookbook on sale for $1.99. I'm glad I only spent that. I enjoy Great War fiction, and the added dynamic of the Easter Uprising of 1916 made me even more interested in it.
This book started out so slowly, and some of the descriptions felt completely unnecessary. I don't want to read about every time someone let their bowels go when they were scared literally and figuratively sh--less.
The one positive is that I felt like the dynamic of the Irish soldiers coming back to an Ireland they didn't recognize, and that they were considered traitors in some ways because they were fighting with the English.
Never expect a happy ending to a book (or any media) about soldiers in the Great War.
  
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ClareR (6129 KP) rated Brigid in Books

Feb 26, 2026  
Brigid
Brigid
Kim Curran | 2026 | Fiction & Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
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All of my favourite things in one book: historical fiction, fantasy, myth, retellings, Ireland and nuns!! What more could I want!!

Brigid is the daughter of a slave and a chieftain, and she narrowly escapes marriage to a man she doesn’t want, when a goddess hears her prayers. She helps her from this point on, and this is where the blurring between goddess/ paganism and catholicism starts - in a good way.

Brigid builds her sisterhood, cloaks it in religion and makes a safe haven for women in what would have been a brutal time for them. One of my favourite themes, found family, is prominent in this, along with sisterhood and religious politics.

I’m off to find The Morrigan, and I’m hoping that Kim Curran will continue to introduce us to the Irish folklore that I know far too little about.
  
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