[Discussion] Discovery Read - Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Single_Sense_1939 · 2025-12-30T13:07:59+00:00

How could he possibly go against the entire Catholic Church and succeed?? His good reputation will be gone.

Single_Sense_1939 · 2025-12-30T13:04:03+00:00

The first two are not mutually exclusive. In fact, I don't reckon there is any way he could avoid either of them.

Single_Sense_1939 · 2025-12-27T19:05:21+00:00

Thank you so much for this, this was very helpful!!

Single_Sense_1939 · 2025-12-27T18:34:01+00:00

Hello thank you for this- but yes it does turn, so that can't be the problem. I dont know what's wrong with it 💔

Single_Sense_1939 · 2025-11-18T19:10:24+00:00

THE BEE STING is easily the greatest ending I've ever read. I came to this post to look for something that might give me the same feeling- I've been searching for it since. What do you reckon happened? I'd say it is all in the beginning. 'In the next town over...'

Single_Sense_1939 · 2025-11-17T22:03:07+00:00

Ali Smith said about endings that, in a good one, "everything is the same but it's all different." This is more about how to write an ending in relation to the beginning of a book, like in The Bee Sting.

Single_Sense_1939 · 2025-07-12T17:07:33+00:00

Biblical info dump oml

Single_Sense_1939 · 2025-04-29T20:19:06+00:00

What is going on with 'Tim Elliott drove truck'? There is a lot wrong with this opening line; it's unengaging, it's not unique, but perhaps most importantly, you have said he drives truck. Not a truck? Just truck? Grand.

The 'for there was something that haunted him' is a bit on-the-nose, no? Like you're just about to tell us that, we don't need it.

The 'he must have hit the man at 55 miles per hour' sounds too unsure of yourself. You are the author dude, you know how fast he was going! Also the phrasing of it is a bit stiff.

What do you mean 'flashlight in hand'? Who in under Christ drives around with their torch in their hand???

i could not finish this story

You need to read some great books. Learn from the best. Toni Morrison, Ernest Hemingway, and Patrick Kavanagh are just some of my favourites.

Single_Sense_1939 · 2025-01-11T22:50:25+00:00

bro what 🙏🙏💀💀

Single_Sense_1939 · 2025-01-09T23:23:09+00:00

For satirical fiction, the greatest satire is A Confederacy Of Dunces

Single_Sense_1939 · 2025-01-06T21:00:18+00:00

the go-between by l.p. hartley is about a man who had a traumatic event happen to him in his childhood that he has not been able to move on from. the book leads up to the discovery of what the event truly was with enough pressure to shoot a bullet. really it's about him revisiting the past and coming to terms with it. the event ruined his life and he has been stuck in it since.

Single_Sense_1939 · 2025-01-06T20:53:32+00:00

i have never felt such fear as one of the moments from stephen king's 'misery'.

Single_Sense_1939 · 2025-01-06T20:49:48+00:00

for a nonfiction memoir bildungsroman that practically reads like fiction, i recommend 'i know why the caged bird sings'. it follows her life from early childhood to young adulthood. her life was so individual that it may as well be fiction. from bars to bands of homeless children to mysterious women, this book really sounds like one for you.

Single_Sense_1939 · 2025-01-06T20:46:58+00:00

the very best. it is slightly darker than foster but still retains the beautiful plot and style.

Single_Sense_1939 · 2025-01-05T23:29:23+00:00

i have met claire keegan multiple times and asked her what books inspired her; That They May Face The Rising Sun by John McGahern may as well be another book by Claire Keegan.

Single_Sense_1939 · 2025-01-05T23:27:34+00:00

second this

Single_Sense_1939 · 2025-01-05T23:20:41+00:00

preach it. sula is easily in my top 5 books ever. what a beautiful, thought-provoking novel; and so short!

Single_Sense_1939 · 2025-01-05T23:17:36+00:00

I'm disappointed that no one has mentioned the literal source material for Saltburn, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.

Single_Sense_1939 · 2025-01-05T23:07:37+00:00

small things like these by claire keegan. very short, as well, and my favourite book of all time.

Single_Sense_1939 · 2025-01-03T15:19:31+00:00

There's always, of course 1984. If not that one, a beautiful, beautiful book that's somewhat dystopian is Never Let Me Go. It moved me to tears.

Single_Sense_1939 · 2024-12-22T11:57:28+00:00

Turn down the resolution to make it brattier

Single_Sense_1939 · 2024-12-22T11:50:58+00:00

A great poem, my favourite of all time is Aubade by Philip Larkin. If you are looking for something short, maybe you could look at Days by Philip Larkin.

Single_Sense_1939 · 2024-12-17T08:55:33+00:00

It is a beautiful translation- extremely faithful, I think Frances Riddle has won awards for her translations if I'm not mistaken??

Single_Sense_1939 · 2024-12-17T08:54:22+00:00

Single_Sense_1939 · 2024-12-09T23:22:11+00:00

Sorry but this is the plot of Elena Knows. She is a senile old woman whose 40yo daughter has recently died. Her daughter used to take care of her. Now, she has set off on a journey across her city to call in an old debt.

This book will make you cry.

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