pickThe first in the Sean Duffy series (#SeriesLove2025). Duffy is a Catholic detective in Protestant N. Ireland during The Troubles. This was a great start to the series and Duffy is a complex character. I look forward to more in the series. Gerald Doyle was a fabulous narrator of the audiobook.
My first finish for #14Books14Weeks2025
pickPRK is an amazing writer. So much I didn‘t know in this one.
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pickSp good! Was worried it was gonna be super dry history but absolutely loved. Has great pacing and follows characters in a really readable way. Fascinating history and comes right up into the 2010s, demonstrating how this history is still reverberating.
pickIn a small town near Belfast, during the Troubles, Cushla juggles her teaching job, bar keeping at the family bar at night, a perpetually drunk mother, the man she‘s having an affair with, and giving her heart to a young student whose poor Protestant family is barely making ends meet when the father is beaten so badly he can no longer function. There‘s a lot going on yet this short book moves at a snail‘s pace. We are given intimate details ⬇️
I love how Cushla is reading out loud the misspellings on the menu!
#Ireland #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
pickI‘ve had this book on my wishlist for a while. “Killing Thatcher” is a very exciting, but still impeccable researched political thriller about the very long plot of killing Prime Minister Thatcher, by the IRA. I highly recommend it if you‘ve ever been to Ireland and/or are interested in Irish history.
I‘m way behind reading this book for #Ireland #foodandlit. But geez when I started this chapter, I decided NOT to try this allegedly Irish meal: “a fish-finger sandwich soggy with melted butter and malt vinegar”
No thanks.
Very fun using one of my bookmarks from #Ireland (from our trip there last summer) for my #foodandlit books this month! @Catsandbooks
I‘m starting this book for #Ireland #foodandlit @Catsandbooks
