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Normally Ozzie won‘t model books for me but he‘s sleepy so I made it happen. 😂

My 10th from the Booker longlist was wonderful! I came in with no expectations and was rewarded with an inspiring story. A novel about an autistic boy who misses the mother he never knew, working out a device for perpetual motion; and a school teacher in a bad marriage exhausted by her dysfunctional all-boys school, yet fully committed to it. A novel of the children of missing parents, some grown, stumbling through life. Recommended! #booker2023

If you‘re looking for an excellent mystery with suspense, betrayal, and corruption, I highly recommend The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan. It‘s the first installment of the Cormac Reilly Mystery series. I purchased the audiobook from Audible. I loved the beautiful narration by Aoife McMahon. I could listen to her all day! 

Full review at https://abookandadog.com

#MotivationalMonday @Cupcake12
1 we may be getting a puppy! And I'm going gambling with my sister Friday, staying at a nice hotel and I'll watch her mostly, since I don't take much cash, lol😉
2 trying to finish tagged book. Listening to Secret book of Flora lea
3 compassionate, loyal

#Sharreadathon @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
I haven't finished this one yet, but I just wanted to post in honor of our friend💗, a special light we got to know through #litsylove and I'm grateful 🙏

A day late!!! #wondrouswednesday @Eggs
1 oh my gosh, I have so very many, miss them so much. But lately it's that my feet are always cold in this bitter weather, and my mom ALWAYS complained about this too! Lol
2 "she made a difference"
3 book 3 of the series!

The reader was great in this book! DI Cormac Reilly has transferred to Galway because of his girlfriends work. The atmosphere at the Garda is strange. He's assigned a cold case that he witnessed 20 years ago. Aisling's boyfriend Jack has committed suicide, his long lost sister Maude returns convinced it was murder. And the cold case revolves around Maude's mothers death.
A really good start to this series! I'll definitely read the next one!
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This was a very tender story of family and community that didn‘t veer too far into the overly mawkish and sentimental as I feared it would. Feeney‘s background as a poet is very apparent in certain bits as some of the language was really breathtaking. Funnily enough, my least favorite bits were the ones in which they actually built the boat. 😂

I could review this book in just one word: "meh". It's easy to read, neither love it nor hate it, things happen but characters lack depth so you don't care. Ironically the most boring parts are the ones where they explain how to build a boat. Not sure if the author knows how to do it, but she definitely doesn't know how to explain the procedure. In a week I probably won't remember I read it

Oh, I just loved this book.

It is by no means perfect, I wish some of the characters had been fleshed out more. But it is a beautiful, quiet book. At its heart, a book about empathy and community, and one which made me feel deeply.

Cont'd thoughts in comments.

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