In my most recent booktube video, I talk about books published the year I was born and the year I turned 18.
https://youtu.be/3WdcLOW97v0
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In my most recent booktube video, I talk about books published the year I was born and the year I turned 18.
https://youtu.be/3WdcLOW97v0
A late dinner this evening, I got caught up in my reads for #SuperSeptember!! Tonight, it‘s a leftover quinoa “risotto” w/ garden veggies, basil & parmesan over penne pasta. I love how this dish transitions from summer to autumn w/ the tomatoes, zucchini & eggplant. It‘s making me long for autumn weather to really stick.🍂 I have about 40 pages left in this book, & then on to the next! I‘m enjoying this coming of age story, set in 1950‘s Ireland.
pick#booked2020 @Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage perfect excuse to pick up this classic for the #bannedbook thread. Incredible to imagine that this story of teenage girls moving from a country village to Dublin was banned in Ireland when today it is more interesting with great characters in caithleen + baba than shocking, but perhaps the idea of girls having sexual thoughts was too much. Will try the next to find out how they fare.
What if I don't have a house number? *shrug* I'd go by date house was built but we are not entirely sure when that was. I'll go with when my great-granddad bought it.
1890. That's a nice chunk of change.
Sometimes books just fall into my amazon cart and show up at my door 🤭🤷🏻♀️
pickDefinitely a pick and an important read, challenging some of the taboos of the 50s and 60s Ireland.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/07/edna-o-brien-pen-nabokov-award-cou.... Congratulations for lifetime Nabokov award!
#girlsjustwanttohavefun , well alright sometimes have fun😉. @batsy @Cinfhen #fiercefeb
pickI can‘t believe I waited this long to read Edna O‘Brien‘s brilliant first book. Caithleen, our narrator, is a fascinating, complex young woman, & her on again/off again friendship w/ the more middle class Baba is at times both frustrating & charming, a real portrait of young female companionship. Published in 1960, it was censored in Ireland (how dare a woman write about young women and desire, with humor). #readwomen Now on to #2 in the trilogy!
Went mad at a local book fair ! It was all for a good cause people , nothing to do with my " i just gotta have it " compulsion I loved " country girls , so i got that in big beautiful collection with other stories also met someone who said that he had met edna , he was a jolly irishman, it was great and i wanna go back tomorrow ? but will hav to hav some self control .
But it was soo good !! ???
Joanna: That is the thing about Irish people... all feast and then famine.
Kate: That's because we are all descended from kings and queens. #themorethingschange
#readingwomenmonth #classic
Ive tried to pick a few classics from my bookshelves by women. Hopefully it is a broad church on wonderful writing.
so-soI read this 2 1/2 years ago and will have to revisit it someday. I'm having trouble remembering too much about it except that I thought it was pretty good...I'll have to give it a so-so rating until I can re-read. 34/1,001 #1001Books
A classic Irish read while I was in Dublin for the week.
