Random book from our personal library.
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#ARichLife Day 18: #Tradition
'Stand By Me' is the only song with its own fan club. It's true. There's a whole group of people who scour the world for different versions of the song and have meetings where they play newly discovered versions, discuss the lyrics and drink a toast to Ben E. King.
pickI knew a lot of poems from this one, some of my favourites of Heaney's. The one that will never leave me alone is 'Mid-Term Break', of course, and its final line:
“A four foot box, a foot for every year.“
#BirthdayBashReadathon
pickI couldn't point to a specific poem here that I loved, but I do enjoy Heaney's style. There's something solid about it; almost all of the poems have presence, forced me to take time to consider them.
pickGhost Mountain, by Ronan Hession (2024)
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Premise: Life for a small community is changed when a mountain suddenly appears in an abandoned field—but not as much as one might think.
Review: Hession has been one of 2025‘s great discoveries for me, but this one didn‘t quite live up to expectation or to its fascinating premise. ⬇️
A joke:
How do you know when there's a bodhran player at your front door?
The knocking gets faster and faster.
And there's a woman climbing over chairs, taking pictures of every conceivable object at every conceivable angle...so she's obviously American.
He's upset a few along the way too, as does anyone willing to put their head above the fray.
pickA family saga about Milly and Pip who drift in and out of each other's lives over the years. In many ways not much happens other than the daily life of these two characters and the close people in their life. However, the writing is so descriptive I found myself quite invested in the characters.
