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86% complete! people like books has read 26 of 30 books.

Paul Murray: Bee Sting (2023, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

An unhappy Irish family plumbs the depths of their unhappiness, each in their own way.

Soapy and enjoyable

The small town nuclear family setting made me feel so claustrophobic and a few hundred pages in, right when I was starting to wonder why I was still reading this weird family book, all the characters and the story started blowing open. Really well crafted, nothing revolutionary but a solid book to get wrapped into for a few weeks.

@astralstreeting yeah, I've been recommended him a few times, I'm very stoked to be reading this finally. I'm only ~70 pages in but I already get the feeling like it's gonna be incredible (albeit challenging)

Guadalupe Nettel, Rosalind Harvey: Still Born (2022, Fitzcarraldo Editions)

"Two best friends share an aversion to 'the human shackles' of motherhood, only to discover …

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Really simple prose and a kind of overdone premise made me feel like I knew what I was getting into, but the story sucked me in really quickly and I ended up finishing it in one sitting. Really appreciated the steady, almost omnicient presence of the narrator through lots of turmoil in the lives of the women around her.