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I've just spent 4 working days listening to one book, Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries (2013), 832 pp or 29 hours 18 minutes in audio form. This is the 20 something New Zealander's second novel and it won her the 2013 Man Booker. From where I was sitting, over those 4 long days, when not out...
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My reading for Buried in Print Marcie's annual MARM month has been both sporadic and minimal, to say the least, but this year I finally got to read a book that has been on my TBR shelves for a long time and that I have planned to read over the last few MARMs. It's Atwood's...
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Steven Conte burst on the scene in 2008 when he won the inaugural Prime Minister's Literary Award with his 2007-published debut novel, The zookeeper's war. I always intended to read it but somehow it never happened. Jump to 2020, and Conte's second novel, The Tolstoy Estate, was published. That's a big gap, but what he's...
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In 2013 I had the pleasure of booking Terri Hooley for a music festival I was running to do a Q&A before a screening of Good Vibrations - the movie of, well, his life! If you've never heard of Terri, he's a music loving, one-eyed, record shop owning, Unde rtones discovering Belfast legend. In...
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