Tova’s Reviews > Dubliners > Status Update

↠ Clay
↠ 2 | ★★☆☆☆

A largely forgettable story, also, I am just ready to be done with this collection

↠ Counterparts
↠ 2 | ★★☆☆☆

I also have no thoughts

↠ A Mother
↠ 4.5 | ★★★★☆

The best story in the collection, the mother is kind of just a variation on my own mother, which is probably why I could relate to it. It absolutely gave the vibes of "YOU SAID SHE'D GET PAID AND YOU BETTER F*CKING PAY HER," and I love that

↠ Ivy Day in the Committee Room
↠ 3 | ★★★☆☆

A story with direct political connections to Irish history, interesting in the context of what I know of Charles Parnell

↠ Two Gallants
↠ 3 | ★★☆☆☆

No thoughts, just vibes.

↠ An Encounter
↠ 2.5 | ★★☆☆☆

Rather strange is all I can say

↠ After the Race
↠ 3 | ★★★☆☆

I know it's Segouin, but I keep hearing Saquon as in Saquon Barkley (Go Birds)

↠ The Sisters
↠ 3.5 | ★★★☆☆

Joyce's writing is growing on me, still don't entirely know what is going on, but his writing is very good.

↠ Araby
↠ 2.5 | ★★☆☆☆

Men...they are hopeless sometimes.

↠ The Boarding House
↠ 3.5 | ★★★☆☆

An interesting mother-daughter relationship and a lot of interesting things to consider. One of the more relatable stories so far.