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The mind is everything. What you think you become.
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Originally posted by dinny View PostRead "The Wonder" by Emma Donoghue over last weekend....was looking forward to it as it was her first book since the amazing "Room" which I loved......shouldn't have bothered reading it found it tedious , nothing much happened in this simple story about a child starving herself .....it's set in Ireland in a village outside Athlone in 1859...everyone in the village and surrounding area is a religious nut obsessed with nothing else only the church and bible...and trying to make a martyr or a saint out of a young girl that hasn't ate anything for 5 months........guessed the reason why she wasn't eating about a third of the way through the book ...I shouldn't have reading it
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Originally posted by KatieMorag View Postbought "The Wonder" today in a charity shop.......if it's as crap as you say at least it was only £1......also bought "The Secret Scripture" by sebastian Barry which is also set in Ireland. Never read anything by him before so don't know what to expect.
Sebastian Barry is a very good writer.....have read The Secret Scripture it's a good book.....based on his grandmothers life or a story she told him about as far as I can remember .....
His aunt is Mary O'Hara....well known Irish singer and Harpist....she was also a nun....who left the order and got married....The mind is everything. What you think you become.
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Originally posted by dinny View Postlol.....didn't say it was crap.....just disappointed that it wasn't as good as her last book.
Sebastian Barry is a very good writer.....have read The Secret Scripture it's a good book.....based on his grandmothers life or a story she told him about as far as I can remember .....
His aunt is Mary O'Hara....well known Irish singer and Harpist....she was also a nun....who left the order and got married....
Enjoying "The Wonder" so far.
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Originally posted by DAMNTHEWEATHER View PostFinally bought Dev by Tim Pat... I read T Ryle's one but I heard TP beats up on Dev big time....arrived t'day...Oil get startedin god i trust...everyone else cash only.
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Originally posted by dinny View PostThat's a wonder
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Same here found it a bit tedious and repetitive ...but enjoyed the fact that it was well written....I thought it gave a pretty accurate account of rural Ireland as it was then......seen the ending coming from a mile away.....and the feeding of the girl was unbelievable and hard to swallow as you say...lolThe mind is everything. What you think you become.
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