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Big History in a Small Book | Small Things Like These Book Review | Booker 2022 Shortlist
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- Опубліковано 14 сер 2024
- This week I will be reviewing a book from the 2022 shortlist every day! Then on the last day I will be ranking all of the longlisted and shortlisted books and providing my winner prediction! This will lead us right into the day of the announcement of the winner.
📚Review Week Schedule📚
Monday: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Tuesday: Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
Wednesday: Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
Thursday: The Trees by Percival Everett
Friday: Glory by NoViolet Bulawayu
Saturday: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
Sunday: Ranking all Longlisted Books and Winner Prediction
⌚Timestamps⌚
0:00 - Intro
1:48 - Synopsis
2:22 - Magdalene Laundries
5:54 - Morality
7:31 - Bystander Effect
9:12 - Overall Thoughts
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Love how you did your post-reading research and processing. Wonderful review.
You might be interested in Philomena by Martin Sixsmith. It's also a film, with Judy Dench
I totally agree this book could be longer. For me it’s brevity was kind of it’s downfall. I couldn’t get emotionally attached and I think the background is really lacking, I don’t need everything explained but I do need to feel invested. And I didn’t. Though I think I’m very much in the minority.
Completely agree! I felt like by the end she had something going and then it was over 🙈 but yeah, the setting was almost nothing to me and I don't think I would have remembered that it was even winter if the synopsis didn't say it was in the days before Christmas lol
I love this book, & it has made me want to read everything else Claire Keegan has written. It was the ultimate show, not tell story, with a wonderful sense of time and place, and there is very little I would have changed about it.
I'm glad you enjoyed it so much!
I really liked the book and loved the writing. I just feel that the Booker is about something more than a fairly straightforward tale of 100 pages!
This little book had such a huge emotional impact on me, I loved it!
so helpful for my Leaving Cert thank u
I loved reading this little book last week and thought it had so much going for it: great writing, interesting historical background, setting, etc. But I felt like I got a book that stopped at the climax with no resolution... I really wanted to see how the main character would grow and change as a result of this choice- would he be able to stay on good terms with his family, his village, his own consciousness, with no regrets?
I agree! I like open ended endings, but not in such a small book! There was so much more that could have been explored
Have you heard Joni Mitchell's song, "The Magdelene Laundries"?
Great review of a superb novella. But...... arrrrgghhhhh..... "off of"!? "Off of" is both wrong and extremely ugly. I know in America people say "based off" rather than "based on" and that's weird, but OK. However the preposition is just "off" not "off of"; "of" is an entirely different word with an entirely different meaning. I suspect this has evolved from Americans saying "offa". Do you ever use "from"? e.g. 'This book is taken from the Booker shortlist' or 'I took the book from the table'?
Great review: have you watched the film The Magdalene Sisters (2002)?
I haven't! I'll definitely look it up though!