I learned of O'Connor in my search to read more about Ireland. One review I read mentions it being the kind of book where you find yourself reading passages aloud to someone; reading and rereading sentences. It happened to me. Fiction but based on the noted Irish playwright and novelist J. M. Syn...
i gave this book four stars, but in all fairness i shouldn't have given it any since i did not finish the book. "ghost light" was for some reason extremely difficult to read and after avoiding it for almost a month, i decided for a compromise- i'll read the parts that seem interesting and skip th...
Mulvey roved out the following night, to a gathering of musicians at a crossroads dance near Glassillaun. Again he had sung, and had enjoyed the experience, though now for a different set of reasons. Girls seemed to find him attractive when he sang, though he didn’t know why and found such a fact...
Lads in Edwardian drapes and peacock-feather waistcoats and they eying me, a relic of the past. ‘Cosh-boys’, they call themselves. Look at that fellow there. Grease in his barnet and the aviator spectacles all black as a Sunday in Lent. But the street is crowded, Molly, there is nothing he could ...
SALVADOR DALI WE LIVE IN A CULTURE OF ACHIEVEMENT. All cultures give some people higher status than others. Sometimes this status is ascribed, on the basis of education, age, class, or gender. You get status by being who you are; ascribed status does not need justification. In most of Europe and ...