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Chelsea.Poole
Wild Houses: A Novel | Colin Barrett
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After many starts and pauses, I have finished Wild Houses, a book that hit a few lists last year. A bleak Irish setting with depressing scenes and down on their luck characters made this a bit of a bummer but when the plot finally got rolling I was engaged and flew through the last quarter of the book. It‘s a pick because of the character development and the setting. Bad choices are made and the lives of several young people intersect. Low pick

BkClubCare It was good on audio, too. 7h
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Chelsea.Poole
Wild Houses: A Novel | Colin Barrett
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tpixie Perfect 3d
BittersweetBooks Cozy 💛 3d
Erinreadsthebooks Sounds lovely! 3d
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IuliaC 😻🤍 3d
Suet624 Delightful 3d
AnnCrystal Cozy 💕😻💝. 3d
Ruthiella 😻😻😻 3d
Leftcoastzen Yay!😻👏 3d
dabbe #perfection 🖤🐾🖤 3d
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AnneCecilie
Wild Houses: A Novel | Colin Barrett
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Late one evening Dev opens his door to find out that the Ferdias‘ brothers has kidnapped a young boy. They wish to stay at Dev‘s because of his remote location. The young boy‘s older brother owns the brothers money and they want them back.

We follow Dev, the young brother Doll and his girlfriend and mother, and his brother Cillian, and learn how they handle it and are willing to do.

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Chelsea.Poole
Wild Houses: A Novel | Colin Barrett
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Only on chapter 3, hoping it hooks me soon
#bookandbreakfast

TheKidUpstairs I just saw your name on someone else's post! Happy Litsyversary!!! I'm glad you're here :) 3w
Chelsea.Poole @TheKidUpstairs thank you! Litsy is the best place on the internet, so glad I found all of you readers here. 3w
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Suet624
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I see this only received a 33% rating on Litsy. I completely understand that people may not like it but upon finishing this book I immediately fell into a deep dive into all it had/still has raised within me. A love story, an escape into the deep woods of Montana, the writing, I was hearing the cadence of long lost relatives, the story-quick & to the point-has all the makings of a Western but it's completely Irish. Tom and Polly. The 10,000 (cont)

Suet624 Irish who left Ireland to work in the mines in Butte, the mystical connection Tom has access to.. something about this book and its lyrical writing has opened a portal to the past for me. Just shows that just because folks don't like a book doesn't mean you won't like it. :). A 5 star for me. (edited) 1mo
Suet624 If you'd like to hear him read some of the book, I enjoyed this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5agriAsyYo 1mo
Tamra I‘ll see if I can check out the audio. 😄 1mo
LeahBergen I‘m happy to read this good review as I bought it as a Xmas gift for a “literary western” loving friend! 1mo
Suet624 @LeahBergen I hope they appreciate it as much as I did. It was the Irish aspect of it that I really enjoyed. 1mo
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quietlycuriouskate
Wild Houses: A Novel | Colin Barrett
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A drugs-related kidnapping of a young lad: not a book I'd have picked up, were it not for its #bookerprize longlisting.
I enjoyed the characterisation (poor Dev, especially, and hapless Doll, and prematurely adult Nicky). There's something feels not quite complete about it though, and it could do with one more edit: not least to clear up the nonsensical imagery I kept tripping over (eg. the appearance of a distant building compared to an aspirin).

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Hooked_on_books
Wild Houses: A Novel | Colin Barrett
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Ostensibly about a drug-deal related shakedown, this is actually an exploration of the lives of people living at the margins and at risk. It‘s described as “darkly funny” and I don‘t agree at all—I found it to be an encouragement to look more deeply at quiet desperation. #TOBlonglist

BarbaraBB You‘re right, it wasn‘t that funny. I liked it a lot 1mo
Gleefulreader I thought this book was really good too. But I never understand why publishers insist on trying to make books sound lighter or funnier than they truly are. It just sets the author up for a potentially bad review through impossible expectations. 1mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 1mo
Hooked_on_books @Gleefulreader You‘re exactly right. And will a disappointed reader come back for the next book? Probably not. 1mo
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AnneCecilie
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It‘s doesn‘t seem like Litsy have the entire title: “Missing Persons. Or: My grandmother‘s secrets”. It‘s also interesting that the Norwegian title has switched the sentences.

So what is this about?
In her 20s Wills is told about a cousin she never knew about. Apparently her uncle Jack fathered a child in the 50s. Since he and the mother didn‘t want to get married, the mother was sent off to a home to give birth.

How could her family accept

AnneCecilie this? And the woman‘s family? And what does it say about the 50s society? Wills looks at the social changes from the Great Famine and how that changed the society. Poor people dying or living for America, increasing the church power. She also looks at all the bureaucracy that was involved. This was an eyeopener. And in the process, Wills also discover that her grandma had some secrets 2mo
BookmarkTavern Sounds very interesting! 2mo
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MatchlessMarie
Christmas Tree | Jennifer Johnston
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We put up my son‘s Crocsmas tree 😅 #HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024

dabbe 🤩🎄🤩 2mo
ShananigansReads My school's library has this tree. It's so cute.
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