Read a book that has been featured in the BookBrowse Review.
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London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe
(No spoilers)
A captivating surreal story about a heart-wrenching event. The story unfolds in a nonlinear manner taking several tangents into various characters’ pasts therefore setting the stage for the main story line. The somewhat detailed histories were relevant to the current event so I found that I didn’t mind the detours.
This was the first book I have read by Patrick Radden Keefe but won’t be the last.
@kim.kovacs I believe you reviewed this one. Time to go and read your review.
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Gabi_J, I am with you 100%. I read this for my nonfiction and I was hooked. Radden Keefe came to my town earlier this year to promote the book. He was charming, funny and thoroughly engaged with the audience (even though I am sure he was exhausted from the book tour)
Did you know he was a J Crew model? Only one time and the photos are awesome…a writer as a model!
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This prompt led me to Land by Maggie O’Farrell. Her prose is remarkable. I thoroughly enjoyed Hamnet, and after its galaxy of success, it must be tough to write. I enjoyed the book, and it had me rethinking the Great Hunger and that those that survived had PTSD. When I first learned about this event, it was the Potato Famine, which truly oversimplified the politics and class distinctions of the time.
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Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon featured in September Edition
Sweeping story of Grace O’Malley. You won’t be able to put it down.
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I finished The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon late last night. I chose it because the author also wrote The Frozen River which was my favorite of 2024.
Your review is posted and I agree with you and the other reader’s comment. Yes, it was a long read and I am normally not a fan of Pirate reads, but the book did capture my attention. At first the three time periods intertwined in the plot was confusing but later I felt it gave the story more meaning.
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I am glad you enjoyed it Lynne. I have read several of her books and enjoyed them.
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I read LAND by Maggie OĘĽFarrell for my challenge book for the Book Browse Review discussion on Monday Sept 7. It was an historical fiction in 1865 and covers generations of a family surviving the Great Hunger, English colonization and family rebellion. The father is working for the Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The location is a peninsula in the Atlantic Ocean. The theme is about the separation and reunion of a family.
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I read Angel Down by Daniel Kraus for the challenge topic “Read a book that been featured in the BookBrowse Review”. It is the 2026 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction. The author tells the story of a misfit WWI doughboy, Cyril Bagger, who is assigned to head up a ragtag group of four other cast asides from Company P during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive to take care of a fallen soldier whose unremitting shrieks are intolerable to to those near and far’s sanity. The group, with tremendous difficulty, make its way through the hellish landscape to no man’s land between the German and Allied lines. When the group reaches the source of the shrieking, they find an angelic figure clad in a red dress and blue cape who is ensnared in razor wire. They then begin the journey with the angel back to command headquarters. The revelations that come about through this journey are totally unexpected and explosive. There are very few books that I can truly say will stay with me forever, but I think this one will.
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