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In Her Own Land

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

February 25, 2024 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

I only became aware of Prophet Song when it won the Booker Prize over Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting, a big, important book about one of the defining issues of our time. I was selling Paul Lynch short. Prophet Song is more compact than The Bee Sting, but it’s also an important book about the world we live in. Eilish Stack is a middle-aged, middle-class Irish woman working in a science lab and raising four children with her husband Larry, a leader in the teacher’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Paul Lynch

jeverett15's CBR16 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Paul Lynch ·
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The Booker Prize Winner of 2023 – Not exactly a prize winner for me

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

January 22, 2024 by booktrovert Leave a Comment

Do you remember the movie A Time to Kill? This movie is almost 30 years old, which I think pretty much excludes it from the need for spoiler alerts, but in case you haven’t seen it, spoilers ahead: in this movie, Samuel L. Jackson’s daughter is brutally attacked by a crew of racist white men, and because he knows he won’t get any justice for his daughter from the legal system he takes his shotgun and openly murders the culprits (in a truly dramatic way, […]

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booktrovert's CBR16 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Paul Lynch ·
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