The Sleepless Reader | The search for the book thatll keep me awake at night

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I m not sure if this post is spoilerish or not. I m not giving away anything on the crime resolution, but I have Thoughts on the way the book ends. Many reviews on Goodreads that aren t hidden make similar references.This has been in and out of my wish-list for ages I d read a review and add it, then I d read another and would take it out. It happened at least 4 times. But I found myself at the airport, having finished my book during the previous flight and with another 5-hour flight ahead of me (yes, I know, how could I have planned it so badly?!!). In the Woods was the only title in the airport s small bookshop that rang a bell.I enjoyed it, but the resolution was extremely frustrating, bordering on the insulting.It s a mystery novel that uses the recent plot trend of one mystery forcing the protagonist to go back to his/her childhood neighborhood/small town, the scene of another mystery, that remained unsolved for 20 years.Thumbs up for the the Dublin setting and the insight into Irish police procedures. The book became famous because it s more literary than your usual crime novel. The language is elaborate, and care is give to description and character building. I m completely behind French on that, and though she was very successful but the ending Maybe she took the literary angle too far. In literary fiction I m ok with unsolved mysteries, unanswered questions, and bad guys that are known but not brought to justice but it s SO frustrating in a crime novel. Especially if the book is part of a series clearly marketed as crime, vs. for example, a stand alone novel that bridges genres, like The Collector.A different ending would have made In the Woods a very near-perfect mystery novel for me.I d be very interested in your thoughts on this, especially if you ve read it!***Other thoughts: Fyrefly s Boom Blog, Rhapsody in Books, Joyfully Retired, Literate Housewife, Always with a Book, Belle Wong, BooksPlease (yours?) I ve always loved this Goodreads stat on read books publication date. What does yours look like?I try not letting myself be completely taken over by new releases, but there s still a trend towards the top of the graph year on year, which increased after I started blogging.In 2018 I want to read more broadly, time-wise. A good start is the A Century of Books challenge (are you joining?) I ll try to read 1 book per decade between 1918 and 2018. To compliment it, I ll also add a couple of Shakespeares, and at least 6 other classics (re-reading Downton Abbey, read my last Brontë Shirley).If you know of any buddy reads or read-alongs of older books, please let me know! A disclaimer that Lyndsey (@teadevotee) is a friend from my early book blogging days, and one of the few bloggers I actually met in person. So please don t think me biased if I say this was a great book, both as a biography of one of the most prominent British suffragettes, and a brief history of the movement itself.As Lyndsey pointed out, Lady Constance was an unlikely suffragette a top-echelon aristocrat, introvert, devoted to family and mother, for whom she sacrificed a budding career. Her path towards becoming a militant suffragette is remarkable and, even after finishing the book, still a mystery.Lady Constance is not an easy person to understand, so I enjoyed the parts where Lyndsey explored her contradictions, intentions, tendency towards martyrdom and obsession, and relationships with the people around her. The book gives you the facts, and asks you to look at them from different perspectives. For instance, Lady Constance disguised herself as a working-class suffragette to experience what prison was like for women that didn t receive special treatment because of their class. She paid dearly for that experience but did she do it to make a point about class, or to prove herself to the movement s larger-than-life leaders?The history of the British suffrage movement in general is fascinating and led to hours spent on Wikipedia. (Do you know the difference between a suffragist and a suffragette? Now I do!) The description of the movement s escalation of violence, is especially relevant considering ongoing discussions about terrorism, and its causes.If I met Lyndsey again for tea and waffles I d shower her with questions, but the one that s still haunting me days after finishing the book is: what do you think would ve happened to the suffragette movement and its cause if World War I hadn t happened?Any good recommendations on the women s suffrage? ***Other thoughts: Fingers and ProseClick to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter2015 (Opens in new window)Click to share on RSS (Opens in new window)Click to share on Goodreads2015 (Opens in new window)Click to share on Bookcrossing (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pin (Opens in new window) Things have been quiet over here, so wanted to pop in and just say hi. I ve been reading and commenting on other blogs and vlobs, tweeting, but lazy about writing my own posts.Still, I ve had read a really good book life lately. May s readings ranged from a Russian historical mystery to Southern family drama, from a Swedish suburbia tearjerker to non-fiction about British early Renaissance. In between I squeezed in some feminist essays and superhero comics.Also started re-reading Dorothy Dunnett s Lymond Chronicles. This time around I m determined to get every single obscure reference. I even got a dedicated notebook. It s been great in a history nerd kinda way.I gave into the hype and started The Raven Cycle. No regrets except about wishing there was more Blue in it. Also worth mention the amazing River of Stars audiobook narrated by Simon Vance. Guy Gavriel Kay recently released Children of Earth and Sky also read by Vance and set in an past Dubrovnik-like city (get out of my brain!). It ll be the perfect beach audio. I m almost afraid to start it, the expectations are so high.Also in May I went back to Brussels for a friend s birthday and bought some comics in French (they re double the price here in Geneva).I m especially curious about La Dame à la licorne, a collection of stories by different authors (art students) inspired on The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries. Re-read Tracy Chevalier s book about them recently and last year finally had the chance to see the tapestries live at the Musée de Cluny in Paris. I was mesmerized. In turn, they (and the whole museum, really) made me want to read more Dunnett. And that s the way life and books intersect and complement each other

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