Recent Reads Wrap Up | Including 3 New Favs!
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The town in The Coast Road ( which is unnamed) is modelled on Killybegs, Donegal. A famous fishing port. If you ever come to Ireland it should be on the road trip.
My favourite Claire Fuller book so far is
Unsettled Ground
It really spoke to me. I had a very rural poor childhood and it was as if the author was writing about people I knew.
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I also loved Unsettled Ground. It was excellent. 😊
The Coast Road is a favorite read of 2024 for me! So glad you enjoyed it too.
Always makes me so happy to see a new video uploaded from my favourite BookTube channel, thanks so much for making these Mercy ❤
Awww, thank you so much!
Happy fall everyone woop woop woop!!! 🍂💛
The Coast Road & The Road to Dalton were both 5⭐ reads for me!
😀💕xx thanks SO much Mercedes. A few more titles added to my ever expanding tbr! Lots of love 🥰
Thank you for watching 😊 I'm glad you found a few books to add to your tbr!
I have read all of Claire Fuller’s books and I think Unsettled Ground is the best, and I think it will most align with your reading interests as it centres around rural poverty. Regarding Bitter Orange’s conclusion, I can’t remember if I read this in an interview or she said it at an event I attended, but Claire Fuller doesn’t plan or plot her books at all - she just writes, sees what happens and does whatever feels most true to the characters as they develop! When I found that out I actually thought it was impressive that her books have as much momentum and cohesion as they do lol
I’ve had a stellar reading month, all based on your recommendations. At the moment I’m reading Evie Wyld’s The Echoes, and enjoying it so far.
That's so lovely to hear :) What have you read so far?
@@MercysBookishMusings Pet, SwanSong, Tell Me What I Am, Kala, Penance.
Kala was a 5*, and I love the protagonist of Swansong so much I might revise my score up on reflection.
@velmavlogs7693 now that is a banging reading month! I'm jealous 🤣
I'm currently reading 'Mrs Webster' by Colm Toibin, another irish author who wrote Brooklyn and Long Island
I haven't read any Colm Toibin but I definitely need to!
@MercysBookishMusings definitely do and Niall Williams is v good also, his descriptions of the west of Ireland are beautiful I think x
Really looking forward to reading ‘I died at Farrow Hall’. Some favourite reads of mine recently have been ‘Shy Creatures’ Clare Chambers, ‘Flatlands’ Sue Hubbard and a Persephone book called ‘Doreen’ by Barbara Noble. Thanks for the video x
I would like to recommend 'Four letters of love' by Niall Williams, think a movie is coming out about this book, loved the descriptions and story of this book..
Thanks for the recommendation :) I've also been recommended This is Happiness by the same author so I definitely need to give his books a try!
Yes and History of the rain@MercysBookishMusings
I finished I Died at Fallow Hall a while ago, and I agree with your review of it, so if you want to talk about a particular plot point (as you mentioned in the video), I would love to!
Finished My Good Bright Wolf just yesterday and read it all in one sitting. The opening few pages were my least favourite, I think they just threw me off because I was concerned about reading a memoir that was so fragmented but after the first 30 pages it became less so, and I really got into it. I loved the literary discussions!! The food talk in them was fascinating for me. I remembered things like the seed cake from Jane Eyre and the scrambled egg recipe from The Bell Jar so it was comforting to here those mentioned haha. I thought it was brilliant stylistically but I wish I could've known more about her progress as a writer in it. Is there more of that in the Iceland memoir?? Recently read Ghost Wall and Nightwaking and thought they were both excellent!
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Glad you enjoyed The Coast Road, have added The Road to Dalton to my list😊 I enjoyed Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller more than Bitter Orange.
Did you get the email I sent you?
I hope you enjoy The Road to Dalton 😊 Unsettled Ground is the one I hear the most people rave about!
No, I must have missed it! Did you send it to my youtube Gmail email?
@@MercysBookishMusings Yes I sent it to the email listed on your channel.
Some intriguing titles! FYI, Midsomer Murders is also very well known in the US!
Revival Season really sounds like the type of church I just got out of. I think I’ll buy it and possibly share with my kids over time. Thank you
That excerpt you read from the Sarah Moss book blew my mind
I really enjoyed I Died at Farrow Hall (and Bitter Orange too), I'm intrigued to know what the thing was that didn't quite gel for you? I have a vague recollection I also felt something didn't quite fit, but can't remember now what it was. Maybe your thoughts will jog mine! And what did you make of the lack of chapter headings or indication the story had moved to someone else? At first I found it a bit confusing but I quickly got used to it and found, if anything, it made me concentrate harder.
@lellymills yes, I'm so desperate to talk to someone about them both 🤣
So for Bitter Orange I thought it was weird that we never find out how the peephole got there? Plus it was never explained if someone had been in her bathroom when she kept hearing someone and finding a pillow in there. I thought maybe it was just an indicator of her feelings over how her mother died and she was imagining it all but I wasn't sure.
With Fallow Hall I didn't think her finding the skeleton made sense at all. The brother knew he was getting a gardener and that they'd eventually dig the body up so why not move it first? I know it would have been tricky but surely easier than waiting for her to find it. Oh, yes, I forgot to mention the lack of chapters. It was a bit odd, especially when a text message or email would just randomly be in the middle of the text.
Your videos are my favourite. Amazing reviews and so many added to my TBR ❤
Thank you so much ❤