St Patrick's College (Kilbirnie)

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Lonesome Dove

By Larry McMurty

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Ulysses

By James Joyce

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This is not a review, but I have finally finished it
The Bone People

By Keri Hulme

5 stars
The New Zealanders

By Maurice Shadbolt

3 stars

This is a collection of short stories from early on in Maurices career. Its a solid set of stories the reads very much like a lot of his contemporaries. I think its best story was its first, The Womans Story, a coming of age story that follows Bridget from her young childhood in England, her travels to rural New Zealand through to the end of her adolescence, as she comes to accept the world around her and makes close bonds with her friends that she would not have found in NZ. I don’t know if I am doing this chapter justice. The other stories are fine, but don't expect anything to surprise you. Most interesting, I think, is how the stories are collected. The first third of stories are rural stories, the next third urban and the final third international. Over the course of the collection, we start in England, travel to rural NZ, then to Urban NZ and finally the collection ends in Europe, with characters looking back to NZ and contemplating its part in the wider world
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

By Shehan Karunatilaka

5 stars

Possibly my favourite novel this year, with definitely my favourite opening paragraph. Maali Almeida, war photographer during the Sri Lankan Civil War wakes up dead, and is given 7 days to find out how he died by bureaucrats in the afterlife. Over the seven days, we explore with Maali his life as a closeted gay man in the city far away from the violence, a war photographer who has witnessed some of the worst atrocities of all sides and a target of powerful figures who worry about what he knows. The novel oddly uses the second person which adds to the somewhat unreal feel of the afterlife. The writing style is probably my second favourite this year in how it reflects both its lead character and the world he occupies. Highly recommended

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St Patrick's College (Kilbirnie)

46,691 pages read and 2,872 team points

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