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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!

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

Oh! HI! *pounces* (Sorry, I read this book four years ago and have basically made it my mission in life to get everybody to read it.)

SO. "At Swim, Two Boys" by Jamie O'Neill. It's incredible. Buy it. Read it. :D

(It takes a bit to get into the language -and the prologue is way harder than the rest of the book- but it is so worth it, and it is so, so beautiful.)

[jamethiel]

*snigger* That's okay. I want everyone to read P.C. Hodgell's "Chronicles of the Kencyrath", from which I take my lj name. Anyone who's ever read it sees my name and squees "OMG Hodgell!!!!" while the rest of the world looks blank.

And woot! It is available from Dymocks. So I can order it. And will. Now to see if Dymocks is less evil about orders than Borders or Angus and Robertson...

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

Heee! So, you totally know how I feel! *g*

I hope you enjoy it. If for nothing else, at least for the gayness. ;) (Another random quote: "As if a dick up the arse really could make a man of you.")

*cough*

[croupier.livejournal.com]

Oh, God. NEVER ask that question around her.

[kasche.livejournal.com]

*LAUGHS* I had the same, exact reaction. :D

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

Oh, what, are you complaing? ;)

[kasche.livejournal.com]

Nah, I was too busy sniggering ;D

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

BLOW ME.

(Lovingly.)