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Thank you. I have a lot of time

I have started : Witchcraft and Witchraft Trials in Orkney and Shetland (I had family in Orkney when I was growing up who never mentionied this!), I don't know if that counts as folklore and mythology but it's only 96 pages long so I'm reading it anyway, and Celtic Mythology, which is helping with the Tuatha De Danaan, mentioned in Shauna Lawless's Gael series set in Ireland in the first millenium.

I bought The Passenger and Stella Maris (on e-book) and I have No Country For Old Men, The Road and The Border Trilogy (paperbacks) in the house. I will get to the other novels too, eventually.

Just bought The Fourth Wing.

Currently reading Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? Jeannette Winterston

Yes and it won't be the last.

Just finished my 11th book for the month. Never done that before!

I bought this one too. Simenon is one of my favourite authors.

Sounds good to me, I have plenty that I can read on this topic!

Have abandoned Jesus' Son - too close to the recently read McCathy's God's Child and without McCarthy's lyricism and it's short stories albeit related short stories - and started reading The Lost Ancestor, Nathan Dylan Goodwin.

I read this too and it's fabulous!

The Child of God, Cormac McCarthy This is a short book or novella, only 190 pages long. It's worth reading, though. McCarthy's prose is superb, very lyrical and he is describing some horrific things in a way that makes it clear what is happening but not in a grotesque horror fiction way. Fortunately fictional but they could be true because they are very possible. 1960's Tennessee. Lester Ballard is a young backwoodsman who is very violent, introverted and voluntarily solitary. He is wrongly accused of rape and when released goes on to commit some appalling crimes in the backwoods. He does not have a permanent home and there is no way of tracking him. He does get caught eventually and I won't spoil the ending but it's not what you'd predict. McCormac's prose is breathtaking in places and utterly sublime in others, despite some of the grotesque things that are described. I've never read anything like it. The characters are utterly real, the plot is believable and the story is of it's time (i.e. no mobile phones or for that matter, much in the way of land-lines). I also got the feeling that the fact that Ballard is capable of committing said crimes is also unheard of in the backwoods of 1960's Tennessee. Very recommended.

Currently reading Jesus' Son, Denis Johnson

I'm currently reading The Child of God by Cormac McCarthy and he is indeed a superb writer. Still not sure about whether or not he surpasses Faulkner, imho, but it doesn't really matter. And I didn't realise that he passed away in June 2023. I still have the rest of his books to look forward to.

Currently reading Child of God, Cormac McCarthy

Finished this and loved it!

Currently reading this and enjoying it immensely.

It's chilly here but dry.

Currently reading The Faerie Hounds of York, Arden Powell

Rainy and rainey, so far. Yesterday it was rainy and sunshine interspersed. My father managed to get the bin in without getting soaked but he did get frozen so it was pretty chilly too, as it is today.

Just bought this. Not available on Kindle but it is available second-hand.

Currently reading The Turn of the Screw: The Original 1898 Unabridged and Complete Edition, Henry James.

May I suggest that you read the Acknowledgements at the end of the book? I found them very interesting (not all thank-yous, btw). I hope that you enjoy it as much as I did and look forward to your review.

Currently reading Fyneshade, Kate Griffen

Currently reading Dreams of Fire, Shauna Lawless. A novella set a century before her Children of Gods and Fighting Men, first book in her Gael Song Series.