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The 10 Best Books of 2010 – New York Times List

Dec 14, 2010 |

The 10 Best Books of 2010 – NYTimes.com. I was happy to see my favorite book of 2010, Emma Donoghue’s Room, included in the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2010 listed below. William Trevor’s Selected Stories is there too. Here is the New York Times list: FREEDOM By Jonathan Franzen. Farrar, Straus &…

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I’d like these books for Christmas (if I didn’t have them already)

Dec 4, 2010 |

This is my half-dozen list of  books from Ireland or by Irish writers that I think would make great Christmas gifts.  And not a whiff of misery writing about the rise and fall of the Celtic Tiger or the sorry IMF/ECB bailout. Emma Donoghue’s Room  was my book of the year before it won the Hughes & Hughes…

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Fear, Grief and Unexpected Hope

Nov 22, 2010 |

This Irish Citizen found hope from an unexpected source in a week when four children died violently in rooms at their homes and the IMF and ECB arrived in Ireland.  My source of hope came from Emma Donoghue’s novel  Room. In a 12-ft square room where a sky-light gives the only glimpse of the outside world, a young…

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