Life
6 BooksLove
The book is slow to start. It is also hard comprehend initially—is a book length dialog with interspersed timelines and characters, and few names. Yet, by the time the key characters start getting drink, so did I start getting hooked on the slow, bubbling conversation.
The book is nothing special. It’s just two nearly 60yo men spending an evening drinking and talking, jumping back and forth over 30 years. Still, if there wasn’t a pandemic around, I’d inviting friends over for a catch-up in Dublin tomorrow.
Of mice and men
Moving, honest story of friendship, life, mental disability, and hard decisions.
The red pony
A simple tale of a boy’s year on a farm—of learning some good and some bitter faces of life.