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Yikes this cover.

Recent acquisition for our personal library:

📖 Yeats (Writers and Critics) by Peter Ure

This book isn't in the Litsy database despite me adding it weeks ago so I tagged my favourite Yeats collection.

#yeats

My #roll100 picks for August - both library borrows. I‘m going to skip No. 41 since I read it this month already. 🙊

3⭐️ An autobio, this presents a balance between life and death. The title caught my interest, and I selected this for my bookclub. As usual, I wouldn‘t know about this author if not for NYRB Classics collection. This publisher really pushes me to explore more ✌🏻

Random book from our personal library.

2020 review: ★★★★★

First found McCabe as the author of a short story in the liner notes for one of my favourite albums, Gavin Friday's Shag Tobacco. Found The Butcher Boy through the 1998 film, directed by Neil Jordan, whose 1995 film, Michael Collins, is one of my favourites. Finally read this decades later. I love modern Irish art.

Recent acquisition for our personal library.

Every once in a while, you find something good at the dollar store.

Claire Keegan delivers here quite a sad, but not uncommon tale of an unhappy marriage.
Quite atmospheric, it's a well-written short story.

https://youtu.be/ZakTsw5MTzM

Introduction
Mystery guest
The Pornographer by John McGahern
A welcome interruption
The Pornographer by John McGahern (continued)
Hope Never Knew Horizon by Douglas Bruton