He thought of Mrs Wilson, of her daily kindness, of how she had corrected and encouraged him, of the small things she has said and done and had refused to do and say and what she must have known, the things which, when added up, amounted to a life. Had it n... (展开) 0回应...
I really wanted to love Small Things Like These — I favour Irish storytellers and this opened with delightful prose and turns of phrase; eventually turning to deal with darker matter — and as ever, I feel a bit heartless when a book about important events, which other readers found ...
SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE is a small book. Literally. Its trim size is petite, and the story itself is told in 114 pages. However, as small as all the elements of the physical book are, the novel packs a terrible gut punch that readers won’t soon forget. A father of five girls ...
Small Things Like Theseis set in an Irish town in 1985 in the lead up Christmas. Bill Furlong, a father of five daughters is a coal merchant, raised by a single mother who was a housemaid for an upper class woman who allowed her to keep her son with her. The story recalls an event...
I feel like the journey began when I first started going to Catholic church as a kid. It began again when I had a spiritual awakening after a long period as some cross between agnostic and atheist (about seven years). It began for the final time when I started writing these poems, abou...
It seemed to work really well; boosting some of the weaker combos from the original game, and diluting the deck to an extent where you can’t — necessarily — rely on things like the deer/wolf strategy paying off. Which already seems like good reasons for this to be a permanent “must...
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We like this definition and especially its focus on crowd-based networks and the various ways things are blurring. The book nicely covers the topics of trust and regulation as they relate to the sharing economy. The chapter on blockchain is especially well done. It's a difficult technology to...
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