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[mrsronweasley]

I'm rereading At Swim, and every day I am tempted to quote the entire book, just read it out loud, from the highest mountain top I can find, to anyone who will listen, for years and years and years. Instead, I'll settle for quoting little bits, because if ever I was committed to anything, it is to spreading the love. And I get to use this icon almost entirely in context.

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"She made a difference to me, your mother did. I came across her one time and I heard her singing."

"She does always be singing, all right."

"I felt I might belong. I might, God help me, be" --irrational, irrepresible, irresponsible, iron-brained, irascible, irksome, entirely irresistible-- "might be Irish," he said.

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Comments

[jamethiel]

What is "At Swim"? Who's it by? Sounds interesting.

Because, yes. I just bought a new bookcase, and at present the amount of bookshelf space is GREATER than the amount of books in my house, therefore I must fill it and have books piled 3 deep on the shelves again! It's a rule!

[bathsweaver.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is nice.

[bluebrocade.livejournal.com]

My insane sister just demanded requested a christmas wish list by Friday so she can get all her shopping done. I put this book on my list per your earlier rec.

[entropical87.livejournal.com]

I need to have another go at that book, methinks. I got it years ago - on your rec, strangely enough. What a small world it is. ;)

I started it when I first got it, got a couple of chapters in, and gave up. A combination of it being a bit difficult with the dialect and me being too young for it, most likely. Well, I'm a bit older now and rapidly running out of reading material. Who knows what could happen. *g*

[shihadchick.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that bit you quoted? When I got to that, it just killed me DEAD. Ngggggggggh. (Am nearly finished now, will certainly be emailing you when I am to, like, flail and stuff. And then I get to share it with the Eire-ophiles in Hawaii in a month and a bit, too, so... yay.)