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Brian’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Brian’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Brian Keaney
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Have Yous All Gone Mad?
I spent the weekend after the British EU referendum at our house in Ireland, on the southern side of the border. I'd hoped to avoid discussing the vote entirely but it was all anyone wanted to talk about. Here's a snapshot of some of those conversations. You may notice a common theme emerging.In The Post Office
S: You're welcome home, Brian.
Me: Thanks very much.
S: So what do you think of the re Read more of this blog post »
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The Hollow People (The Promises of Dr. Sigmundus, #1)
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2007
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Jacob's Ladder
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2005
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12 editions
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The Cracked Mirror (The Promises of Dr. Sigmundus, #2)
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2007
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Los muchachos no escriben historias de amor
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1983
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5 editions
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The Resurrection Fields (The Promises of Dr. Sigmundus, #3)
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2008
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The Alphabet of Heart's Desire
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2017
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The Haunting of Nathaniel Wolfe (Nathaniel Wolfe, #1)
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2008
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Where Mermaids Sing
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2004
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Falling for Joshua
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2001
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Nathaniel Wolfe and the Bodysnatchers (Nathaniel Wolfe, #2)
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2009
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Brian’s Recent Updates
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| Nancy Mitford’s portrait of a British upper-class family in the period between the first and second world war is wonderfully witty, but it’s the kind of wit you find in Evelyn Waugh’s comic novels – sparkling but not particularly nourishing. Indeed, ...more | |
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| Peter Heather’s study of Justinian takes issue with the widely held view of the emperor as a visionary, setting out from the beginning of his reign to restore the glory of the empire by reclaiming the lost territories of Africa and Italy. Instead, he ...more | |
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| Hard to believe that this was published right at the end of the nineteen seventies. It seems like another age. Britain is still a significant player in Africa, the apartheid regime is still flourishing, the British intelligence service is still being ...more | |
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| The premise of this novel is a powerful one: Franz and Becky, two young people living in Argentina in the sixties, are in love and want to get married. However, when their parents meet, Becky's father, a holocaust survivor, recognises Franz's father ...more | |
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| Upon experiencing a seizure which leads to the discovery of a brain tumour and the reality of increasing memory loss, Holly Dawson embarks upon a memoir which investigates all the personas she has adopted and discarded during her lifetime. Written as ...more | |
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| Beginning with the arrival of a knight hoping to join the Round Table, only to discover that King Arthur has just been killed, The Bright Sword swings into its narrative with the same effortlessly engaging voice that Lev Grossman employs in his Magic ...more | |
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| Set in Northern Germany at the end of World War Two, Once The Deed Is Done examines the impact of the war’s aftermath on a small town as they wait for their menfolk to return from the front. The narrative unfolds primarily through the eyes of Ruth, a ...more | |
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| Good Behaviour is an excoriating portrait of life of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy at the beginning of the twentieth century. Representatives of a dwindling and deeply resented class, Molly Keane’s characters exist in a world set apart from the overwhel ...more | |
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| A foreign policy specialist who spent over a decade working in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Chloe Dalton was at a loss when covid hit the UK confining her to her home, a converted barn in the north of England until a chance encounter ...more | |
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There is so much to like about this book. In particular, there’s Kaliane Bradley’s prose which is absolutely fizzing with wit. She has a real gift for snapshot similes. They’re all over the prose: “He got out of the car and looked up and down the stre ...more |
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“It was all very well to pretend you were not afraid of death, Bea thought, but people only said that because they had not looked death in the eye. They had not understood that it meant everything you have always taken for granted and loved without even knowing it-the world around you, the memories you carry with you, your hopes for the future- all of this being extinguished like a candle flame that is blown out. And afterwards, there would be nothing. Not even emptiness. Not even loneliness. Not even pain.”
― The Resurrection Fields
― The Resurrection Fields
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“The worst part was that, as the years passed, these memories became, in the way you kept them in a secret box in your head, taking them out every so often to turn them over and over, something like dear possessions. They were the key to your unhappiness. They were the evidence that life wasn’t fair. If you weren’t a lucky child, you didn’t know you weren’t lucky until you got older. And then it was all you ever thought about.”
― The Marriage Plot
― The Marriage Plot
“To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole;”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“It was queer the way things crept: the night, and these feelings. One was brought up to scorn the tendency to despair. But it seemed that the darkness knew this, and found a way to reach one nevertheless. It was patient and subtle, gauging the heart’s output of light. Her confusion grew, the heart lucent and the mind lucifugous”
― Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
― Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
“The heart was a bicameral thing, both stoical and skittish. Who was to say that it mightn’t endure the years of separation and the abrupt reversals of fate, only to be repulsed by a misaligned vase, by a lipsticked tooth, by a hundredth of an ounce of ash?”
― Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
― Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
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Oh I see! Now that makes a lot more sense...thank you for answering my questions and now I'll have to go back and give "The Resurrection Fields" a 5 out of 5 stars since I understand it now! I am going to have to read some more of your books, for sure:)Thanks again for helping me out with my questions! And sorry it took me so long to reply hahaha:)
Hi Journey. Thanks for your email. I'm really glad you enjoyed The Promises trilogy. I enjoyed writing it, too. As to your questions, well when Bea rings the bell the world in which the story has taken place is dissolved and a new world takes its place, one in which Bea and Dante still exist but have different life histories. In this new world there is no asylum, just an old hospital that had been closed for years, Doctor Sigmundus is just a character in a book and Bea and Dante may or may not become friends, depending on how things work out
Hey I just wanted to say that I loved The Promises of Dr. Sigmundus books! The storyline was so fascinating! I do have some questions though about the ending of the last book: Did any of the things in the book actually happen to Bea or was she just reading it the whole time? And was Dante still a kitchen boy at the asylum on Tarnager or was that just in the book that Bea was reading? Or was it all just a dream...? I'd love to get some answers when you have the time, but I understand that time is a hard thing to come by these days. Anyway, I really enjoyed reading those books though, I really did:) Thank you for writing them!
Jeannie wrote: "Hi Brian and thanks so much for adding me as a friend! I have several YA authors as friends and love their work. I'll have to check out yours.Blessings,
Jeannie"
Thanks a lot Jeannie. Great to hear from you!
Best wishes
Brian
Hi Brian and thanks so much for adding me as a friend! I have several YA authors as friends and love their work. I'll have to check out yours.Blessings,
Jeannie
Hello Im Maddy And I Read Jaocbs Ladder A Few Weeks Ago. I Thought The Storyline Was Good And Interesting But Being Me I Got Confused Near The Middle Of The Book. There Were So Many Questions That I Wanted The Answers To Which Made Me Read On.What Made You Come Up With Such A Fasinating Story Line As It Is?
Thank-You
Maddy =]
Just like to say, I read your book a few weeks ago and i found it very interesting and i just couldnt put the book down as i just wanted to keep on reading to see what happend. Very well written From Lucy
Hi Journey.
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Brian