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  • December Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    had since childhood (one of whom was the inspiration for the song "Bad"), to exploring "growing up in Ireland

  • March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    coast of Australia, and Gil, an eccentric Australian boy living three hundred years later on the same island In Claire Keegan's slim novel Foster, a young girl in Ireland is taken by her unreliable, frequently

  • Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year

    For my full review, see Call Your Daughter Home. 06 The Pull of the Stars ​ Set in Ireland in 1918, The

  • Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year

    had since childhood (one of whom was the inspiration for the song "Bad"), to exploring "growing up in Ireland

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2025 Reads

    You can find Bossy reviews of other novels set in Ireland here  and more reviews of literary fiction Wild Dark Shore  immediately ticked several of my reading-interest boxes--the setting is an isolated island When a mysterious woman washes up half-dead on the remote island of Shearwater, home of the world's largest shifts between details of a life of moneyed ease and an abandonment on an unforgiving, uninhabited island their relationship is discovered, Roberval cruelly punishes them by abandoning them on an uninhabited island

  • ICYMI: My Very Favorite Reads from the First Half of 2021

    and Connell, a popular athlete whose mother cleans Marianne's house, grew up together in small-town Ireland

  • My Very Favorite 2021 Reads So Far

    and Connell, a popular athlete whose mother cleans Marianne's house, grew up together in small-town Ireland

  • Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West

    01 Inland by Téa Obreht Much of Téa Obreht's Inland is centered around Nora, an impulsive, hot-tempered For my full review of Inland, please click here. 02 Whiskey When We're Dry by John Larison In 1885, Jessilyn

  • My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books

    book, please see The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. 11 The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue ​ Set in Ireland

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/10/25 Edition

    the recently published Red Dog Farm , Nathanial Ian Miller's fiction about a young man growing up in Iceland 01 Red Dog Farm by Nathaniel Ian Miller Young Orri has grown up on his family's cattle farm in Iceland

  • My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books

    book, please see The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. 11 The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue ​ Set in Ireland

  • Six Captivating Nordic Stories

    a beautiful, haunting story inspired by the true events surrounding the last person put to death in Iceland

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