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Good heavens, how did I not know about this at the time? Maybe because in the early ‘ 70s I was in high school? Anyway, this book is horrifying yet compelling story of the IRA during “the troubles” in Ireland/ Northern Ireland at the time.

Carnivore is not the same as omnivore.
So much ageism!

Reminiscent of Steinbeck’s”East of Eden,” this book makes me unsure of quite where we’re going

Such a big deal is made of the fact that Patch has only one eye. Such a Big Deal. And yet the author apparently forgets: “He walked with his eyes cast down…”

DNF 30% This whole family is way too cringey

This woman cries during sex because, “This is how we made the babies!” Okaaaay…

“Marriage is a mysterious institution, even from the inside. Sometimes it can feel like a softly furnished minimum security prison.”

“… mow-ah tahnish on da ahmah…”
(More tarnish on the armor?)

This audiobook narrator’s idea of a Chicago accent is killing me!

Once again, an audiobook that is not well served by being “narrated by the author.”

Oh honey…

How does one “stroll furtively?”

What adult sticks their tongue out at another adult?