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What Are You Reading Now? : Your BEST BOOKS of 2009		86	avaland, I dag 7:27am
Literary Snobs : Best Books of the '00s		52	bobmcconnaughey, tisdag 10:52pm
50 Book Challenge : AMQS' 2009 Challenge		202	sydamy, tisdag 6:44pm
What Are You Reading Now? : Your BEST BOOKS of 2008		175	newlifecoming, tisdag 4:24am
100 Books Challenge for 2009 : torontoc's Books Read in 2009		203	torontoc, måndag 3:08pm
50 Book Challenge : christiguc's 2009 reading catalog		263	christiguc, söndag 11:36pm
50 Book Challenge : citygirl in 2009		85	citygirl, söndag 5:44pm
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Sanddancer's 2009 Reading		218	alcottacre, lördag 5:06am
50 Book Challenge : Wonderlake @ 2009		78	wonderlake, december 17
25 Books in 2009 : CalamityK books for 2009		70	CalamityK, december 16
50 Book Challenge : Anisoara's 100 book challenge!		70	anisoara, december 15
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : BeSerene's 2009 Book Challenge		207	beserene, december 15
List Five Books Parlour Game : Use five titles to tell a story		119	kelisha94, december 11
50 Book Challenge : Mark's (MSF59) Part 2		299	msf59, december 1
50 Book Challenge : kathrynnd's 2009 challenge		16	kathrynnd, november 5
999 Challenge : WGWalter's		13	WGWalter, oktober 11
Reading Globally : Sanddancer's List		38	sanddancer, oktober 8
999 Challenge : RidgewayGirl's		277	RidgewayGirl, oktober 4
999 Challenge : Jules' (Bookworm Jules)		56	bookwormjules, september 30
999 Challenge : bonniebook's 999 challenge, Turn to Chapter 2		115	RidgewayGirl, september 13
Club Read 2009 : Kidzdoc's 2009 Goals #3		207	kidzdoc, september 12
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Kidzdoc's 75 Book Challenge for 2009 #4		253	kidzdoc, september 9
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Cait86's Reading, Take 2		312	Cait86, september 6
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : lppn38 Challenge: Part II		71	lppn38, september 5
Book talk : Another Silly Game Part 27		336	moibibliomaniac, augusti 31
Girlybooks : ORANGE JULY 2009		171	mrstreme, juli 30
BookMooching : A Book Search Among Friends		428	infiniteletters, juli 29
What Are You Reading Now? : The Clunkers of 2008		180	DMO, juli 19
What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of July 11, 2009?		268	FicusFan, juli 18
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : SqueakyChu's -		301	SqueakyChu, juli 11
50 Book Challenge : AuntyCaz 09/10 50 books		5	nannybebette, juli 1
Club Read 2009 : Polutropos's Polyphony		204	polutropos, juni 29
50 Book Challenge : bonniebook's 50 book challenge 2009		313	billiejean, juni 25
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Torontoc's Books Read in 2009		308	torontoc, juni 8
What Are You Reading Now? : I need a recommendation		19	arubabookwoman, juni 8
Girlybooks : What Women's Books Are You Reading - May 2009 ?		106	lindsacl, juni 3
What Are You Reading Now? : What You Are Reading the Week of 23 May, 2009?		242	Breez, juni 1
999 Challenge : jessicawest's 999 challenge		22	cmbohn, maj 30
What Are You Reading Now? : Books Brought Home, April 2009 #2		160	elliepotten, maj 12
The Prizes : Irish Book Awards		9	amandameale, maj 6
What Are You Reading Now? : What books are next on your reading list? Part 2		155	pologal, april 29
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Wederbrand´s 2009 try for 75		25	Wederbrand, april 9
What Are You Reading Now? : What You Are Reading the Week of 21 March 2009		224	Storeetllr, april 3
Literary Snobs : Critics vs. Readers: 100 Best Novels		92	kswolff, april 1
What Are You Reading Now? : What You Are Reading the Week of 14 March 2009		196	porchsitter55, mars 24
1001 Books to read before you die : Least Favourite 1001 Book of 2008		30	actonbell, mars 11
The Prizes : The Orange		91	Nickelini, mars 6
Club Read 2009 : If everybody's reading it, can it be that good?		103	Nickelini, mars 1
What Are You Reading Now? : What You Are Reading the Week of 31 January 2009		201	FicusFan, februari 8
Hogwarts Express : What are you reading in January?		361	Espeon200, februari 2
Nederlandstalige lezers : Wat lees jij nu?		238	divinenanny, januari 23
Girlybooks : YOUR BEST GIRLYBOOKS OF 2008		26	lkernagh, januari 19
50 Book Challenge : englishrose60		253	englishrose60, januari 10
50 Book Challenge : kambrogi in 2008		197	kambrogi, januari 5
888 Challenge : Ivy's 888		23	billiejean, januari 3
50 Book Challenge : Sanddancer's Book Challenge, starting July 2008		54	sanddancer, januari 3
50 Book Challenge : Donna828 is feeling challenged in 2008		101	Donna828, januari 2
50 Book Challenge : lindsacl's 2008 read-a-thon		217	kambrogi, januari 2
250 book challenge : Dyrfinna's 2008 Reading		36	Dyrfinna, januari 2
50 Book Challenge : jfetting's 50 book challenge - 2008		176	jfetting, januari 1
50 Book Challenge : Ivy's 2008 list		64	ivyd, januari 1
75 Books Challenge for 2008 : lenereadsnok joins the challenge		59	dihiba, januari 1
50 Book Challenge : Judylou's at it again in 2008		245	merry10, januari 1
Hogwarts Express : What are you reading in December?		287	Kerian, januari 1
50 Book Challenge : MarianV		32	MarianV, december 2008
75 Books Challenge for 2008 : TrishNYC's Attempt at the 75 book Challenge		248	Fourpawz2, december 2008
50 Book Challenge : cabegley's 2008 challenge		105	mrstreme, december 2008
50 Book Challenge : Goanna's 2008 Challenge		29	goanna, november 2008
888 Challenge : Sanddancer's		27	sanddancer, november 2008
Book Nudgers : Nov.12 polutropos needs a nudge		20	avaland, november 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today?--October 2008, #2		224	IaaS, november 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : What books are next on your reading list?		355	stevetempo, november 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : What books came into your home today? - OCTOBER 2008		287	mckait, oktober 2008
The Prizes : The Booker		210	Nickelini, oktober 2008
Science Fiction Fans : Why I Don't Like Ender's Game		126	bluetyson, oktober 2008
Girlybooks : What books by and/or about women are you reading Sept.		98	urania1, oktober 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : Setting up a book club		44	cameling, september 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - FEBRUARY 2008		262	kstutz, september 2008
Awful Lit. : 10 years of awful books my Bookclub has read		37	bostonbibliophile, september 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : The Clunkers of 2007		222	theduckthief, augusti 2008
Girlybooks : What books by and/or about women are you reading May-August 08?		253	TerrierGirl, augusti 2008
The Green Dragon : July's New (or Used) Books		89	WillSteed, augusti 2008
Girlybooks : An Orange July		210	urania1, juli 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 19 July 2008		216	msf59, juli 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 12 July 2008		315	cameling, juli 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - #1: JULY. 2008		270	teelgee, juli 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 5 July 2008		264	Whicker, juli 2008
The Prizes : The Best of the Booker		36	Cariola, juli 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : Top Five Books, 2008, Q2: April - June		110	Medellia, juli 2008
50 Book Challenge : warda's 50 books: 2008		20	warda, juli 2008
Early Reviewers : 'The Master Bedroom' by Tessa Hadley		11	kiwidoc, juli 2008
888 Challenge : OK, I'm in.... my "starter" list		5	whoot, juli 2008
50 Book Challenge : 3m3m's 80 books in '08		23	AMQS, juli 2008
Girlybooks : The Orange Prize and Other Awards		78	almigwin, juli 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : Top Five Books first quarter of 2008		119	rachbxl, juli 2008
What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - May. 2008		236	annatapl, juni 2008
Girlybooks : A Dozen Years of Nominees		84	avisannschild, juni 2008
Reading Globally : Where in the world are you now? May 2008		98	avaland, juni 2008
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... aiman Anathem / Neal Stephenson True history of the Kelly gang / Peter Carey The inheritance of loss / Kiran Desai The gathering / Anne Enright The white tiger : a novel / Aravind Adiga Lavinia / Ursula K. Le Guin I know that I'm forgetting titles... what did I miss?

... Sittenfeld (tie) *4. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro (tie) 6. Fortune’s Rocks – Anita Shreve 7. The Gathering – Anne Enright 8. The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst 9. Burger’s Daughter – Nadine Gordimer 10. Rabbit Is Rich – John Updike 10. Rabb ...

... isn't bad, i know that... Blue Nude by Elizabeth Rosner.....as cold as it is here..the title is appropriate! The Gathering by Anne Enright...never read any of her work.. Unless by Carol Shields...i like her work.. ;-}

... re 9/11- "102 Minutes That Changed America" was especially powerful. ^ shortlisted for the Booker, 2007. Anne Enright's The Gathering won

... months. I would be interested in doing a group read on any of these: The Alchemist, Bingo Palace, Family Matters, The Gathering, A Mercy, Midnight's Children, The Road, A Thousand Splendid Suns.

... three years, but I didn't feel that The White Tiger was the best of the listed books last year, and I still haven't read The Gathering, the 2007 winner. Even though Brooklyn is second on my list, I seriously doubt that it will remain that high, but I still think it will be in my top five ...

... Anne Enright always name-checked - she has a sort of collected stories out this year, Yesterday's Weather. I haven't read The Gathering myself and it provokes extreme reactions. Siobhan Dowd - A Swift Pure Cry is wonderful, and she won this year's Carnegie Medal (UK children's award, ...

The Gathering, by Anne Enright (read 17 Nov 2007) (Booker prize in 2007)

... Hooper - 2 stars The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews - 3 stars The Gathering by Anne Enright - 3 stars The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff - 4 stars A Crime in ...

I think I'll switch to The Monsters of Templeton for my last OJ; it sounds much more fun than The Gathering.

I've got The Gathering and someday am going to read it, but have heard more "mehs" than excitement from other LTers.

72. The Gathering by Anne Enright Another for Orange July. It wasn't bad but I wasn't blown away (and I should have been with an Orange-listed and Booker-winner). 3/5 ...

Among other books I'm reading, my current Orange July book is The Gathering by Anne Enright.

... I read years ago with an Irish woman, who was able to shed quite a bit of light on the dynamics of the Irish family. I have The Gathering on my TBR pile, and am hoping it's equally good. On a more frivolous note, Soho Press (sometimes called Soho Crime) publishes translations of foreign crime/ ...

Book #47 The Gathering by Anne Enright * This book came across flat to me, and the author uses WAY too many words to get her point/idea across. Just too verbose; I finished the book, only barely. There were moments of inspiration and words finely put together, but overall I was disappointed.

... at them again. I'm going to be reading Yesterday's Weather by Anne Enright for my bookgroup, so will probably read The Gathering at the same time.

... the 50 book challenge now in June - but better late than never, eh? So far this month, June, I have read the following: The Gathering by Anne Enright White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Fallen Skies by Phillipa Gregory The Cure for Death by Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz ...

... and The Granny). They are set in Dublin, and are very funny, touching, and a bit irreverent. I did read and enjoy The Gathering, so I second kidzoc's post #3. I also enjoyed In the Castle of the Flynns, an Irish-American family story by Michael Raleigh.

... of the Year award last month and was shortlisted for last year's Booker Prize, is very good. And Anne Enright's novel The Gathering won the Booker Prize in 2007 and is set in contemporary Ireland.

The Gathering - Anne Enright. Why: I recently discovered the Booker Prize. This was 2007's winner. An odd book that deserves a nice review, which I will spin out later and leave on my reviews page. But for now: brilliantly written rumination of a 39 yo Dublin woman, Veronica, the eighth of ...

... it's not gooey and romantic, more relatable. This week I'm rereading LotR trilogy, on The Return of the King and also The Gathering by Anne Enright. It started off slow for me, but has been gathering steam and I am almost done. I would like to read The White Tiger next but have misplaced ...

The Gathering by Anne Enright. The prose is stunning. One member of an Irish family muses on her family history when one of her numerous siblings dies. "The seeds of my brother's death were sown many years ago. The person who planted them is long dead -- at least that's what I think. So if I want ...

... by Joseph Garber ** #45 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak **** #46 Loser's Town by Daniel Depp ***1/2 #47 The Gathering by Anne Enright * #48 Doomsday Book by Connie Willis **** #49 Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner *** #50 The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes by Diane Chamberlai ...

My list of books to look at/buy is now in my library under, appropriately enough, Wish List.

01. Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson (12/23/08) 02. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lin See (12/24/08) 03. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga (12/26/08) 04. Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery (12/30/08) 05. Strange as This Weather Has Been - Ann Pancake (12/31/08) 06. T ...

... you are reading, Cyrel. I also enjoyed The Outcast and I think Lovell is a good writer too. I did not enjoy reading The Gathering much, but seem to be in a minority group with that one. I was also not too impressed with the O'Faolain memoir (again in the minority), but this doesn't ...

May
18) I am Hutterite by Mary-Ann Kirkby. 212 p.{memoir}
19) The gathering by Anne Enright. 260 p. {book club}
20) The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels. 341 p. May, three books, 813 pp

From B&N: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery From BookMooch: The Gathering by Anne Enright From a sweet 2nd hand shop inside the "Ben Franklin Store" in Oberlin, OH: The Yellow Rain by Julio Llamazares The Double by Jose Saramago In Praise of the Stepm ...

... This very good and honest memoir seems to have a lot in common with the family ( except for the sexual abuse ) of The Gathering. Certainly the author traces her upbringing and the damage her parents and that 1950's society inflicted on her sense of self. I seem to read in themes and ...

... This very good and honest memoir seems to have a lot in common with the family ( except for the sexual abuse ) of The Gathering. Certainly the author traces her upbringing and the damage her parents and that 1950's society inflicted on her sense of self. I seem to read in themes and ...

I'm one of those who thought The Gathering was just OK, probably because it was overhyped and I was expecting more. It was finely written but just didn't engage me.

I am adding The Gathering to the Continent, too. I have heard mixed reviews of the book, so I will give it a try and decide for myself :)

Link to previous 999-2009 thread here Well, when it came to sticking with my original 999 categories on my first thread, I was definitely a "Cheater, Cheater, Pumpkin-Eater!" I would like to say that I'm 'turning over a new leaf' ...

I've got The Gathering on my tbr pile and hope to get to it at some point this year

Hi Linda I remember that some people on LT last year didn't like The Gathering- maybe because of some of the subject matter- sexual abuse- but I think that it is handled well.

Cyrel I've had the Gathering on my tbr pile for a year. I must get to it, especially after reading your wonderful description. I'm currently reading The Reader.

48. The Gathering by Anne Enright. This book about a woman and her narration about her family history as she buries her brother ( who has committed suicide) is excellent. Enright's use of language is well chosen although she is writing about child abuse and maybe lost memories. The Irish ...

48. The Gathering by Anne Enright. This book about a woman and her narration about her family history as she buries her brother ( who has committed suicide) is excellent. Enright's use of language is well chosen although she is writing about child abuse and maybe lost memories. The Irish ...

#s 141, 143, I also love Jim the Boy. Last night I finished The Gathering by Anne Enright. I came to appreciate the book more after I was about halfway through. Now I'm reading The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery.

... enjoyable and great to read on the train. More short stories and letters from now on. 12. Read another Booker winner The Gathering and loved it. It was so much more engaging than The Sea. I picked it up because I'd read some of Anne Enright's columns in the weekend paper and was a fan ...

16. The Gathering by Anne Enright. I appreciated this book much more after I was about half-way through. A very bleak look at a large Irish family after the death of one of the siblings, with the sinister shadow of abuse creeping like bindweed through the generations and the memories.

... Gunter Grass 8: The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa 9: The Bad Girl: a Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa 10: The Gathering by Anne Enright 11: If on a winter's night a traveller by Italo Calvino 12: Among Women Only by Cesare Pavese

I am about 1/3 of the way through The Gathering by Anne Enright. It's going pretty quickly, which is good, because I'm reading it for book club later this week. I'm not wild about it, though. Another member of my book club warned me that she (the author and/or the main character) seems to be ...

Nice review of The Gathering! Those were pretty much my thoughts about it, also. The strange thing about this book, though, is that I read it more than a year ago, and it keeps coming back to me, and I seem to remember it more clearly than other books I read then (and liked better).

Finished Twilight last night. Next up is The Gathering by Anne Enright for book club on March 27. Also, The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery is waiting for me at the library.

Hi anisoara. I have The Gathering gathering dust in my TBR pile. Did you enjoy it?

What did you think of The Gathering? It looks pretty interesting. Have a great weekend! --BJ

... Gunter Grass 8: The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa 9: The Bad Girl: a Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa 10: The Gathering by Anne Enright

... th 6 Svensk maffia by Lasse Wierup 7 Grisfesten by Leif G. W. Persson 8 Smuts by Katarina Wennstam 9 The Gathering by Anne Enright 10 Before You Sleep by Linn Ullmann 11 Den vidunderliga kälekens historia by Carl-Johan Vallgren 12 De vlieger by Maart ...

... and I have never even bothered to pick it up. Hype I believed and was disappointed: The Road by Cormac McCarthy and The Gathering by Anne Enright.

#31 LouisBranning, thank you for your endorsement of The Gathering. You're right, of course -- I should actually read it before I make up my mind not to like it. I am encouraged!

snash, just finished Wild Swans only a month or so ago, and couldn't agree more. AMQS, the tepid reviews of The Gathering shouldn't put you off it at all, it's strictly an LT thing, but the book drew raves both here and in the UK, and for all the grim circumstances of its heroine, has an ...

... savor. After that I think I'll read Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner before I need to tackle my next book club read, The Gathering. After tepid (at best) reviews of The Gathering here on LT I'm not particularly looking forward to it.

Trish - completely agree about The Gathering - the best thing I can find to say about is at least it wasn't very long, so it was over fairly quickly. Another pair of books read. I was going to describe this pair as from the sublime to the ridiculous, but actually I think they were probably ...

>23: she does teach creative writing herself so this does smack of being a little ungrateful... I still haven't read The Gathering, but I thought What Are You Like? was breathtakingly good. One of those books with staggering coincidences that somehow contrive to make you believe in them.

... chime in and say that I agree with you and Alcot that the people who chose the Booker prize are from another planet. I read The Gathering last year and it was one of the most frustrating books I have ever had the misfortune to read. Lets just say I was so glad when I turned the last page.

... It's in the title: The MAN Booker Prize. OK, checked it out, turns out they get funding from the "Man Foundation." And Anne Enright won last year. She's as much a woman as George Eliot ;) I was mistaken. Sorry.

I will look for The Gathering at the library, I saw they have the translation :-)

Fantastic review of The Gathering- thanks! I will need to be in the right mood to read it though... it's been staring at me from the shelf for months. She sounds ghastly.

You've convinced me that I must read The Gathering. Thank you for the insight (and to her personality too)

... his overpicked history, will appreciate it as a solid introduction to the man behind the bard. Heartily recommended. #6:The Gathering by Anne Enright Oh, Anne Enright, how I wish I could hate you. Let me share a little story: about two or three years ago (well before she won the Booker ...

Regarding aliens on judging panels, I'd particuarly like the MIB to take away whoever gave the Booker Prize to The Gathering by Anne Enright.

... Patrick McCabe (February) 2. Erinsong, Diana Groe (May) 3. Murphy's Law, Rhys Bowen (September 4. The Gathering, Anne Enright (September) 5. This Charming Man, Marian Keyes (September) 6. 7. 8. 9.

... Kinky. Perhaps if the writer wasn't from the Freud family it wouldn't be so highly regarded? Socialpages - I hated The Gathering too. Arukiyomi - I've tried One Hundred Years of Solitude twice now and it keeps putting me off reading whenever I go near it. But I know other people love ...

... of books on the go simultaneously. Here is the current list: Poor Folk – Dostoevsky The Double – Dostoevsky The Gathering – Enright The Year of the Frog – Simecka Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories – Lawrence Ishmael – Quinn Mademoiselle Victorine – F ...

... el The Heaven Tree trilogy Edith Pargeteer best re-read Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset best modern fiction: The Gathering Anne Enright Sitting Practice Caroline Adderson Leaving Brooklyn Lynne Sharon Schwartz Best classic fiction Emma Jane Austin Enchanted April Eliza ...

That's on my list of must reads polly! I've started it once... I'm currently reading The Rotter's Club. I gave up on The Gathering for a bit. It was like wading through mud.

The Luck of the Irish 1 - Ireland - Frank Delaney 2 -Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth 3 - The Gathering - Anne Enright **My Review** 4 - Further Under the Duvet - Marian Keyes 5 - Ulysses - James Joyce ...

I didn't like The Gathering or The Body Artist but at least they were fairly short reads. Don't under why this book was on the list: The Red Queen A hard slog to finish: The Red and The Black. Didn't hate it just found it boring.

... & well-written. The March by E. L. Doctorow. Actually I was a bit disappointed in this but it was still a good story. The Gathering Ann Enright. A subject that hit maybe too close to home, but a well written book.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Grim, without any real depth The Gathering Like other people said, offputting and charmless; made me feel like there was something literary I just didn't get Sister Carrie I recognize that it is an important work of early 20th-century realism, but, goodness it ...

71 - That's maths I can't do. I settled on reading The Gathering before starting on World without End. Sort of regretting it at the moment, but I'm sure I'll get something out of it, and then I'll be really pleased and ready to tuck in to the Follett. Right. Bed time.

The books I've completed for my 50-Books Challenge are listed first in the order read. The remaining books include: Books I've bought and haven't read yet, some books I want to finish, plus books recommended by other LT-ers. I was going to wait until Jan. 1st to begin, but I got snowed in, so m ...

... od Subtleties today, and have just written a less than favourable review. I'm now trying to decide wether to read The Gathering before launching into more historical fiction with World Without End, which I've been putting off, while simultaneously champing at the bit to read... I' ...

... od Subtleties today, and have just written a less than favourable review. I'm now trying to decide wether to read The Gathering before launching into more historical fiction with World Without End, which I've been putting off, while simultaneously champing at the bit to read... I' ...

... Dishwasher - Pete Jordan (358) 131. The Thing about Life is That One Day You’ll Be Dead - David Shields (225) 132. The Gathering - Anne Enright (260) 133. Disarming the Narcissist - Wendy T. Behary (156) 134. The Perfect $100,000 House - Karrie Jacobs (291) 135. White Teeth - Za ...

#s 3, 10, 22, 52, 58 re: The Gathering -- that's one selected by my book club for Feb or March... I remembered inwardly groaning when we selected it (unanimous save for my vote), as I remember reading less-than-complementary comments about it here on LT. I'm hoping I see something you all don't ...

The Gathering, most definitely. I kept waiting for something to happen, for it all to be worth it. But alas. I found Lolita to be a bit mixed - loved the outset, thought the end was a bit strange and tacked on, but the road trip in the middle? Incredibly boring. The only thing that got me ...

I have to agree on The Gathering (read this year) and The Thirteenth Tale (read last year). But the worst one for me was Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks. I wouldn't have finished it, except that a good friend asked me to read it and The Player of Games (which was a little better), ...

... about. Digging to America -- I apparently am not an Anne Tyler fan. The English Major - eewwwww. Peony in Love The Gathering didn't do it for me either. Dismal, awful people. Garden Spells - another abysmal contrived mess of a book.

Thanks all, for the suggestions. Any more? I am currently reading Anne Enright's The Gathering, which won the Booker, and I am enjoying. Once I am done with that, it will probably be Master and Margarita. I would ceryainly welcome more nudges or denudges.

Another vote for The Gathering by Anne Enright. I found it unoriginal and boring, and not at all moving considering the subject. Can't understand why it won The Booker Prize.

The big one for me was The Gathering. Well written, but should have been a short story. I chose not to slog through the last 130 pages to get to the "big reveal," which wouldn't have been a revelation to me. I also abandoned The Last Tsar because I couldn't abide Radzinski imposing ...

... reads or if not great reads, unique in some way. Anyway, enough preamble my clunker list for 2008 would have to include The Gathering by Anne Enright and The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie. Both books are well written but disappointing and for me, a bit of a slog to ...

... Ha Jin 8.Charming Billy by Alice McDermott 9.Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett Man Booker Prize 1.The Gathering by Anne Enright 2.The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai 3.The Sea by John Banville 4.The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 5.Vernon God Little ...

... src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0802170390.01._SX140_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg"> #55 The Gathering by Anne Enright (November). My latest book, the 2007 Booker Prize winner, is one I have looked forward to reading for a long time. It was another one of ...

... Goddard Hungary - Under a Frog by Tibor Fischer Poland - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne Ireland - The Gathering by Anne Enwright and The Sea by John Banville South America Cuba - Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene Argentina, Peru, Chile, Venezuela, Ecuador, Co ...

... Encores is such a good idea, do you mind if I use it too? On the Booker winners: loved The Life of Pi, hated The Gathering and ambivalent The Sea. You can't go wrong with Margaret Atwood - don't think she's written a bad book yet. Looking forward to gossiping through BK.

... love it or hate it kind of book. I didn't mind The Sea although very little happens, but I didn't enjoy Saturday or The Gathering at all. Again just a personal preference thing and they weren't very long so not too hard to read. I loved Last Orders - really wonderful book, possibly ...

... inee 3. Last Orders - Graham Swift, Boooker Prize Winner (overlap) 4. The Sea - John Banville, Booker Prize Winner 5. The Gathering Anne Enright, Booker Prize Winner 6. Boy A Jonathan Trigell, 2004 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 7. Whatever - Michel Houellebecq, Impac award 8. Shipping ...

... vote. After voting I somehow found myself in the Friends of the Library Bookstore, and found I could not leave without: The Gathering by Anne Enright -- my book club will be reading this in a few months Mr. Timothy by Louis Bayard Case Histories by Kate Atkinson A Spot of Bother by M ...

The Gathering by Anne Enright and The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls arrived today (thankyou kiwiflowa, they both look great!).

The Gathering by Anne Enright and The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls arrived today (thankyou kiwiflowa, they both look great!).

Might the fact that The Gathering won last year count against The Secret Scripture - we can't have too many tales of Irish family misery cluttering things up.... maybe I'm being too cynical.

... making that one up. It was a rubbish book, I would agree with them on that one. It was either Bridge to Terabithia, or The Gathering, (two of my early high-school reads, both of which were rubbish) and if anyone wants to claim otherwise, I would be willing to hear their opinion. And how ...

... to feel connected with the world. The main character is lovely and it was a rare book that I wish had been longer. 38. The Gathering by Anne Enright Another Booker prize winner, and another disappointment. I didn't care about any of the family and struggled to really feel as if I knew any ...

... inee 3. Last Orders - Graham Swift, Boooker Prize Winner (overlap) 4. The Sea - John Banville, Booker Prize Winner 5. The Gathering Anne Enright, Booker Prize Winner Read so far: 5 To read: 3

... Cleft, which was amazing and very different from what I had expected, and now, with a few prior detours, I am now up to The Gathering. Judgement reserved so far.

AMQS--nice selection of books. I have Lace Reader and The Gathering. But will check out the rest of the books.

... by Amitav Ghosh Embers by Sandor Marai The Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War by Nathaniel Philbrick The Gathering by Anne Enright The Known World by Edward P. Jones The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry

I enjoyed The Gathering very much, but a lot of people didn't rate it very highly. I have just finished Good Behaviour by Molly Keane, an excellent book IMO. My next read is The Orchard on Fire by Shena Mackay.

... bull. Next up is either The Cleft which will be my first Doris Lessing, or last year's Booker winner, Anne Enright with The Gathering.

When The MasterButchers' singing club & The Monkey Wrench gang arrived at The Gathering the Ladies of the club hoped The Mammoth Cheese would last until Midnight Champagne

# 57 The Gathering by Anne Enright This was a Booker prize winner, and I ended up liking it. To me, it seemed more about the relationships among siblings, particularly among a close-in-age brother and sister, than about What Happened To Liam back in 1970ish (what actually happened to Liam ...

I'm in the middle of The Gathering, which is so far better than I expected. The narrator is being very mysterious about her brother's problems, which is helping to draw me in. Certain aspects of the author's style are beginning to bug me, however. I'm also just about finished with Finn, and I ...

Finished The Gathering by Anne Enright - I enjoyed this story of a dysfunctional Irish family.

62. The Gathering by Anne Enright - I enjoyed this book about a large Irish family on the suicide of a brother. The story is told from Veronica's point of view. Her fragmented memory of events from childhood is interspersed with details of her adult life including her marriage. She uses her ...

I just started reading The Gathering by Anne Enright since it's due back at the library soon and I can't renew. It's not bad so far. I've seen a lot of negative reviews, but I'm interested enough in Liam's secret to keep reading.

... Last Orders Graham Swift (Booker Prize 1996) 2. Disgrace J M Coetzee (Booker Prize 1999) 3. The Gathering Anne Enright (Booker Prize 2007) 4. Cloud Atlas David Mitchell (Booking 2004) 5. The Shipping News Anne Proulx (Pulitzer Prize 1994) 6. The Ro ...

... a trip to the library, I came back with: Justine by Lawrence Durrell Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse The Gathering by Anne Enright I think that everything else I am reading right now is going to be set aside for some quality time with Bertie and Jeeves.

I finished The Gathering by Anne Enright last night. Overall, I thought it was an adequate read. It wasn't a total time waster but it didn't knock my socks off either. Here is my official review. Up next: Alias Grace!

... Forest - Edward Rutherford The Grass Crown - Colleen McCullough The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCulluogh The Gathering - Anne Enright A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley And a few others ... I acquired 17 books in total yesterday.

... going back for a while with all these books! Among my finds today - When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro The Gathering - Anne Enright The Hours - Michael Cunningham An Equal Music - Vikram Seth all the Mary Stewart Arthur books The Thorn Birds - Coll ...

... (what I affectionately call my Orange July). I just finished Half of a Yellow Sun - a fantastic book - and will start The Gathering by Anne Enright later today.

... submit my review to Picador, too, Kihera. Do you have a contact address for that? Thanks. I liked this book better than The Gathering, which is not saying too much as I was not keen on Enright's book.

... books-read/">here. 40. Snow by Maxence Fermine (1999, 100 pp) 41. The Castle by Franz Kafka (1926, 316 pp.) 42. The Gathering by Anne Enright (2007, 261 pp.) 43. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling (1999, 435 pp.) 44. Blessings by Anna Quindlen (202, 226 ...

Interesting, I didn't even notice the format/style as unusual. This book kind of reminded me of The Gathering by Anne Enright. I think I've encountered other books like this too, though I can't remember which ones specifically.

... house of the spirits Isabel Allende The Proud Tower Barbara Tuchman The opposite of Fate Amy Tan The Gathering Ann Enright

... on par with the Kingsolver (4*'s, imo), it was by far the one that made the most impact on me. My other 4* reads were: The Gathering, The Well, and Small Island.

TrishNYC - I totally agree with your review of The Gathering. Like you, I finished it because of its celebrity status but thought it was one of the most depressing and morally unfocused books I have read this year. I know people raved about her prose style but I did not get it.

Wow, someone who liked The Gathering less than I did. I liked her style, but it was SO gloomy. I also had problems with the previous year's Booker Prize winner, The Inheritance of Loss. Not for the same reasons, but it just didn't grab me. I find I enjoy the non-winning nominees much more.

59. The Gathering by Anne Enright. I really did not like this book for the most part. When did an obsession with the male genitalia and sex and pubic functions become high art? The only reason why I finished this book was because I have a problem with never leaving anything that I started ...

17. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt 18. The Gathering by Anne Enright

... during his childhood and really struggles with some big life issues. Truthfully a more enjoyable and uplifting read than The Gathering despite a few choppy sentences here and there. A few too many dysfunctional events maybe marks it as a first book so perhaps her next book will be in line for ...

... to hear that McEwan's earlier stuff was more kinky. I am very much not into kinky literature. I just suffered through The Gathering and have no wish to repeat that experience again. Mamachunk-Glad to see you again. I've missed you around here. I was just looking over some stuff that ...

The Gathering by Anne Enright. An interesting story, well written but I thought there were a lot of extra flourishes & digressions that took away from the main story. Just my opinion. The book won a famous prize & I enjoyed reading it. The End of Iraq by Peter Galbraith. What sets this ...

... three of the last four to my wish list! I am a big fan of Erdrich, and so that was an easy choice. I am holding off on The Gathering, although perhaps I would like it -- sometimes I love depressing books, and other times they upset me so much that I can't finish them. Did you read Fall on ...

Just finished The Gathering by Ann Enright. It's a good book, but I don't agree that it was good enough to win a prize. The author embellished a lot & repeated too much, still it was good.

... Even if I did not love some of my recent reads, I thought they were decent. Unfortunately the book I am currently reading, The Gathering, is making me apprehensive cause the woman seems obssessed with the male genitalia. Lets hope that there is a reason for the insanity. We live in hope!!!

31. The Gathering by Anne Enright It won last year's Booker Prize, but it won't win a recommendation from me...unless you enjoy endless recountings of bitter memories of family wounds. I do think the writing was superb with a haunting style; I just found the themes too depressing. This ...

... Heart and Soul Thornley, Gerry 2 This Year it Will be Different: A Christmas Treasury Binchy, Maeve 3 The Gathering Enright, Anne 4 Padraig Harrington's Journey to the Open Harrington, Padraig 5 My Booky Wook Brand, Russell

#30 Thanks for posting this list! I've printed it. So many great reading lists posted here! I'm bummed not to see The Gathering on the Orange short list. I haven't read any of the finalists. Looks like I need to get to work

I finished The Gathering last night (whew) and started on Small Island by Andrea Levy.

... src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0802170390.01._SX140_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg"> 36. The Gathering by Anne Enright Review to follow. I was not fond of this book but she is a good writer. (3/5)

... Riverton by Kate Morton (this was the reason I went with my Borders Reward email in tow) Marley and Me by John Grogan The Gathering by Anne Enright I was only planning to get the first book, but I walked past the buy one, get one half off table, saw The Gathering, and couldn't resist. I ...

> 76 teelgee, Yes, I saw your explanation. Thanks. Also, I agree about The Gathering. I didn't understand what the big deal about it was either. I found it to be mostly slow and dull.

I'm reading The Gathering by Anne Enright. Not enjoying it a lot. Not understanding how it's prize winning material. A bit weary of reading so much about specific male body parts (can I say 'penis' on this message board??). I'd probably quit this one if it wasn't part of the Booker reading ...

I've just left the early 20th century forests of Wild Life in the Pacific Northwest and have found myself in Dublin in The Gathering, while still traveling around Russia in War and Peace.

I finished up a Molly Gloss book yesterday, Wild Life, which was very enjoyable. Now reading The Gathering. And That Tolstoy Book, still. #5 lindsacl - I enjoyed the movie version of Oscar and Lucinda; haven't read the book yet but I'm looking forward to that - I have a few Carey books ...

... The Outcast to arrive at my library. I've read and loved Monster Love. Lottery was good but a little too long and The Gathering was dreadful, I wished I'd given up on it. I'm about to start The Blood of Flowers in the next few days and I read The End of Mr Y last year. It was ...

... some books specifically to add to my BookMooch inventory. They include some highly wishlisted titles like Absurdistan, The Gathering, and Loving Frank. I'm going to go add them right now so mooch away. http://www.bookmooch.com/m/inventory/mcna217

NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2008 The Gathering by Anne Enright

... de zon bruin verkleurde huid weer blank te maken, door zijn redders met koffie wordt gewassen. Ben gisteren begonnen aan De samenkomst van Anne Enright, de aanloop tot het verhaal is wat rommelig maar na de eerste dertig bladzijden komt het verhaal op gang.

... investory, me too. All the books that came home today and yesterday were freebies though: Mooched from friends: The Gathering by Anne Enright Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris and from the library: In the Wake by Per Petterson (author of the brilliant Out St ...

... Wells-318p. 03/07/08 The bean trees -Barbara Kingsolver-246p. 03/09/08 Atonement – Ian McEwen- 351p 03/10/08 The Gathering – Anne Enright- 261p 03/11/08 Out stealing horses – Per Petterson –258p. 03/12/08 A gathering of old men - Ernest J. Gaines- 03/13/08 The road ...

... e): Lucky Girls The Accidental The Inheritance of Loss The Observations Afterwards The Blood of Flowers The Gathering And I have five more in my TBR stacks: On Beauty A History of Love The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox The Outcast The Septembers of Shiraz

... Abbott 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. D. AWARD WINNERS 1. March, Geraldine Brooks 2. The Gathering, Anne Enright, Man Booker 2007 3. A Woman in Jerusalem, A. B. Yehoshua (overlap) LA Times Book Prize 2006 . . . E. AUTHORS I LIKE TO ...

Lindsacl, I loved The Gathering. Enright's writing is so rich. I've just tossed a book back to the library after 100 pages, and am pondering my considerable TBR stack. I'm thinking proabaly Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. I loved Amy and Isabelle and Abide by Me. Is there anyone ...

Yes Lindscal, maybe I just was not in the mood for The Gathering as it was one of those books fixated on death and negativism (ie. paediophlia) which I have grown weary of. My new Rose Tremain book is much more to my liking.

I wrapped up my short visit to Ireland reading The Gathering. At the moment I'm en route via ship from London to Burma with The Piano Tuner. We're going to go tune some corporal's piano in the jungle. I'm not sure why, seems there may be more to this story than meets the eye.

>22: karenwardill, I've seen many different takes on The Gathering, and it is indeed fascinating! I just went back to your 50 book thread to re-read your comments. I agree with you about the "genital fixation" thing -- I, too, found that annoying. By the end of the book I decided that the ...

Lindsacl - I also just read The Gathering and had rather a different review to yours - as I think you know. I really appreciate reading your review after reading it - amazing how different our takes were. I feel that I am getting rather negative about all these prize-winners - but I guess ...

... src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0802170390.01._SX50_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg"> The Gathering - review, a novel about grief packed with intense emotion. Read because it was the 2007 Booker Prize ...

... Globally group. - I finished the month with Keri Hulme's The Bone People, which I really enjoyed. I just started The Gathering last night and was immediately hooked. Next up will be Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and then I'll be reading some male authors for a bit ...

I finished The Bone People and had a little time before bedtime last night to start The Gathering. I know this book isn't "enjoyable" in the traditional sense, but I have been looking forward to reading it.

... Nancy Mitford Arabian Nights and Days by Naguib Mahfouz The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block The Gathering by Anne Enright I only have two nonfiction from the first quarter that I think will carry to the end of the year: Ingenious Pursuits: Building the S ...

I've just left New Zealand with The Bone People. Last night I touched down in Ireland to read The Gathering, and I will get more immersed in the country later today.

I've read two from the Orange longlist: The Gathering. While it was good, I guess I was expecting something more after all the hype. The Blood of Flowers. Again, I enjoyed the book, but it was fairly run-of-the-mill historical fiction about a Muslim woman. The Septembers of Shiraz ...

#144 - LouisBranning - thanks for the support on The Gathering. I'm more than half through and still nothing has happened. I was just about to drop it. I'll soldier on and see if I agree with you that it's worth it.

whymaggiemay, my best advice is that you should hang in there with The Gathering, because late in the book there's a surprising, and very wonderful, resolution that makes it all worthwhile.

Finished Lolita last night, which I loved. Started A Gift of Wings this morning. Also reading The Gathering, which I'm very torn about. On the one hand, I like the writing, on the other, I don't like the character of the narrator and this story has absolutely no action. I'm character ...

The Gathering has been gathering dust on my bookshelf and just might a little longer, I've been reading mixed reviews. It could be in the timing. I loved Restoration as well and just acquired Music and Silence. I've been eyeing The Way I Found Her at my local used bookstore and I'm ...

The Gathering, of course, won the Booker Prize not so long ago. Linda Grant's earlier novel, When I Lived in Modern Times won the Orange Prize previously. >christiguc, I too love Music and Silence and Restoration, and I have Colour on the TBR pile. I have read and enjoyed Gail Jones's ...

Finishing off Lolita and also reading The Gathering. Finding The Gathering to be verbally very raw. At first I wasn't sure I was going to like it, but it's grown on me a bit.

Hi Avaland, The Gathering looks great! I'll definitely be picking this one up.

So many that seem interesting! I've had The Gathering on my wishlist for some time now. Also, I've read a different book by Rose Tremain (Music and Silence) which I liked. If anyone has some of these they particularly recommend, please share!

... read the ones bought last year because of returning to school. Still, I will need to check some of these out. I have The Gathering and The Septembers of Shiraz (somewhere around here...) Has anyone read any of these? (I love the title of the Liebenburg novel!)

... of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani The Room of Lost Things by Stella Duffy The Keep by Jennifer Egan The Gathering by Anne Enright The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant The Master Bedroom by Tessa Hadley Fault Lines by Nancy Huston Sorry ...

I've read reviews of six of them, but only read The Gathering, which could be a winner.

... of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani The Room of Lost Things by Stella Duffy The Keep by Jennifer Egan The Gathering by Anne Enright The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant The Master Bedroom by Tessa Hadley Fault Lines by Nancy Huston

16. The Gathering by Anne Enright (fiction, Man Booker Prize winner, 261 pages) Family history, which is for the most part oral tradition, relies on memory and is therefore changeable. The Gathering by Anne Enright (fiction, 2007 Man Booker Prize winner, 261 pages) explores the ...

Thanks Amanda. My next two books were from my massive TBR pile! 14. The Gathering by Anne Enright This is probably familiar to all readers, as it was the 2007 Booker Prize winner. So dutifully bought it to read, but honestly did not enjoy it. Enright has a piercing, honest, ...

30. The Children by Charlotte Wood This was similar in theme to The Gathering, last year's Booker winner, in that a family comes together after a tragedy and we see the interplay between siblings and their mother. A good story, well written characters and very Australian. Sometimes ...

... off one coupon at Borders and got 3 (how silly is that!): the Death of Vishnu, The Bonesetter's Daughter, and The Gathering (an LT recommendation).

I finished Anne Enright's searing howl of pain, The Gathering, and am now reading Tom Jones.

... Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Thursday, which I thought was a very good first novel, and started The Gathering by Anne Enright yesterday. Excellent gravestones, AnnaClaire!

... People's History of the United States, Ex Libris (duplicate copy b/c I'd given mine away), At Large and At Small, and The Gathering.

... Beauty 2005: John Banville - The Sea 2006: Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss 2007: Anne Enright - The Gathering Any thoughts?

... Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai The Gathering - Anne Enright Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides Vanish - Tess Gerritsen The Road - Cormac McCart ...

OK, you're starred. A review that makes me want to read The Gathering. Thanks.

4. The Gathering by Anne Enright. As I am capable of reading for content very quickly, truly great books fall into two categories for me - the ones I race through in eager anticipation of the next plot or character revelation, and the ones I slow down to a crawl through, luxuriating in every ...

Other than winner the prize, I haven't heard anything good about The Gathering. But tell us, why did you all dislike it? Did you think it was well written, but there was something about it you didn't like? Or was it poorly written? Or boring? Or ??

All seven people present at the first 2008 meeting of my book club disliked The Gathering

I too hated The Gathering. It did nothing except bore me. I didn't find Arthur and George interesting either.

I hatedhatedhated The Sea by John Banville, and the Gathering by Anne Enright- both of which won the Booker prize! I can't remember any of the books I didn't finish- I think I erase them from my memory as soon as they're out the door on Bookmooch!

4. The Gathering by Anne Enright 5. Someone to Love by Jude Deveraux

8. Contemporary Fiction -- completed December 1. The Gathering by Anne Enright (January, 3*) 2. Someone to Love by Jude Deveraux (January, 3*) 3. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (February, 4 1/2*) 4. Creation in Death ...

... atmosphere, but I just couldn't like it. I don't have much luck with Prize winners. I keep wondering if I should buy The Gathering but it's setting off my alarm bells...

I'm not quite done with it yet, but I expect it will be The Gathering by Anne Enright.

I finished The Gathering (loved it) and have started Those Faraday Girls by Monica McInerney - a bit lighter and easier than what I've been reading lately.

I just finished On Chesil Beach for a book group meeting on Tuesday... Last week I finished The Gathering for the same group, and then started Those Who Save Us for my other group at work. I absolutely loved The Gathering, was so-so about On Chesil Beach and am only about half-way ...

100. The Gathering by Anne Enright Woo Hoo !!! Made it to 100!! What a beautiful book this one is. A large Irish family comes together when one of the brothers commits suicide. The lead up to the wake and the funeral cause one of the sisters to start remembering their childhood. What ...

>125 Cariola and >126 SeanLong I have been sitting reading The Gathering all afternoon and have just forced myself to have a break with 20 pages to go. It is an exceptional book which portrays emotions superbly. >127 LouisBranning Looking forward to the end!

One of the things I liked best about Anne Enright's The Gathering was that, late in the book, after all the narrator's family angst had pretty much come to a head, there was this absolutely cathartic moment, an unexpected turn of the plot, that was as wonderful and as moving as any sequence I've ...

Still reading The Gathering and just finished listening to Shadow of the Wind, which I just loved. Now I'm listening to Gilead in the car.

Just started The Eyre Affair and then will go on to The Gathering, The History of Love and The Red Shoe because they are all library books.

I recently finished Anne Enright's The Gathering, and it's one of the best, if not the best pieces of fiction I've read this year. A very powerful, uncomfortable and angry book.

I am almost finished All the Pretty Horses and after that will have to read the Gathering, The History of Love or The Eyre Affair as they are from the library; but I have also borrowed four or five others from friends and family, so they have to be read soon too . . . . .

The Gathering touchstone earlier in this thread pointed to Lowry's book rather than Enright's. I've set this one because I was so intrigued, having not heard of the book before--I've read some of Enright's short pieces and I did meet her in Dublin a couple of years ago (I arranged for her to give ...

... End, finally on page 755, cause life's too short for wine this cheap. Right now I'm halfway through Anne Enright's The Gathering, and even though it's rather grim stuff, I'm liking it a lot so far.

... example), I moved the Man Booker prize from Anne Enright's (touchstone doesn't seem to be working) page to the page for The Gathering yesterday. All well and good, but someone's gone and put it back again... I don't like the idea of persistently re-editing other people's texts (a la Wikipedia ...

Sorry if this topic has already been started on another thread but I don't agree with the Booker Prize judges. The Gathering by Anne Enrightwas my least favourite of the shortlist! Is it just me?? My favourite was Animals people by Indra Sinha but I would have been happy to see ...

... the wikipedia page on the booker prize and it is reporting that Anne Enright won the 2007 booker prize for her book, The gathering.

This week I will be finishing The Gathering by Anne Enright and re-reading the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon.

... used to it soon. So this week I'm *still* reading Stardust by Neil Gaiman which is a wonderful faerie tale, and also The Gathering by Anne Enright.

... led me to get: Northern Lights by Philip Pullman which I have chosen to fill the void Harry Potter has left. The Gathering by Anne Enright which has been shortlisted for the Booker award. I took it to the cafe to have a look at it and before I knew it had read the first 50 ...

Hey, hasn't anybody posted the short list yet? Here we go: Darkmans by Nicola Barker (Fourth Estate) The Gathering by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape) The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton) Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (John Murray) On Chesil Beach ...

... ent. My 1 – 6 rankings (so far, and for what it's worth, and in case anyone is the slightest bit interested) are: 1. The Gathering – a dark and (I found) depressing novel, that was compelling and cringe-inducing in equal measure, and above all very well written. Enright has filled this ...

I am, for the most part, in Dublin for The Gathering, which is depressing the hell out of me...

... Barker (Fourth Estate) Self Help by Edward Docx (Picador) The Gift Of Rain by Tan Twan Eng (Myrmidon) The Gathering by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape) The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton) The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies (Sceptre) ...