With St. Patrick's Day around the corner, here are some books with an Irish theme that you may want to read.
Last May I read The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne. It is rated 4.47 out of 5 stars on Goodreads. This book is fiction and follows the main character, Cyril Avery, throughout his life. It also tells the story of Ireland from the 1940's until present time. John Boyne also wrote The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
Yesterday, I started listening to Carnegie's Maid by Marie Benedict. I have previously read her other two novels The Only Woman in the Room about Hedy Lamarr and The Other Einstein, about Mitza Maric, Albert Einstein's first wife. Carnegie's Maid is about Clara Kelly, an Irish immigrant in the 1860's who becomes employed by Andrew Carnegie. I'm listening to it, and am enjoying how the narrator goes from an American, to an Irish, and to a Scottish accent.
I have never read Angela's Ashes, but it is a book that I want to read. It is a memoir of author Frank McCourt and it is rated 4.09 stars out of 5 on Goodreads. This book won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. There are two other books in the series, 'Tis a Memoir and Teacher Man. Angela's Ashes traces Frank's childhood, first in his birthplace of Brooklyn, New York and then in Limerick, Ireland.
I hope you enjoy these books! And, may the luck of the Irish be with you!
Last May I read The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne. It is rated 4.47 out of 5 stars on Goodreads. This book is fiction and follows the main character, Cyril Avery, throughout his life. It also tells the story of Ireland from the 1940's until present time. John Boyne also wrote The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
Yesterday, I started listening to Carnegie's Maid by Marie Benedict. I have previously read her other two novels The Only Woman in the Room about Hedy Lamarr and The Other Einstein, about Mitza Maric, Albert Einstein's first wife. Carnegie's Maid is about Clara Kelly, an Irish immigrant in the 1860's who becomes employed by Andrew Carnegie. I'm listening to it, and am enjoying how the narrator goes from an American, to an Irish, and to a Scottish accent.
I have never read Angela's Ashes, but it is a book that I want to read. It is a memoir of author Frank McCourt and it is rated 4.09 stars out of 5 on Goodreads. This book won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. There are two other books in the series, 'Tis a Memoir and Teacher Man. Angela's Ashes traces Frank's childhood, first in his birthplace of Brooklyn, New York and then in Limerick, Ireland.
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I hope you enjoy these books! And, may the luck of the Irish be with you!
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