Books I read in September 2023

Sweaty Smith’s Fraud It combines together three storylines based on real events in the 19th century. Kokney’s butcher arrives in London from Australia, who claims to be Sir Roger Tihborne, the heir to Barnette, and was previously thought to have been lost in the sea. His sensational deception process in London attracts the attention of everyone, including Eliza lacqued, cousin for the marriage of the fruitful novelist William Einsworth, who sold Charles Dickens during the day, and Andru Bogel, a former Jamaic slave who believes that the plaintiff is indeed a tichborn, which is definitely not a significant evidence Smith, but in the end, I prefer her contemporary novels. This is an original absorption of a forgotten case with some humorous dialogue and parallels with more recent events in the United States. However, I believe that it was detained by its overly complex structure, scattered in very short heads, with the three threads never hanging together in a coordinated or satisfying manner (similar to my problem with Paradise from Hanya Yagihara). Thank you very much to Penguin UK, Hamish Hamilton for sending me a copy copy via Netgalley.

The people of the dictionary from Sarah Ogilvi is for the thousands of volunteers around the world who helped to make up the first English dictionary of Oxford in the second half of the 19th century. Ogilvie tells this impressive exercise for draining crowds in the most appropriate format: 26 heads of A for archaeologists to Z for jealousy. While some volunteers were of literary or medium-sized circles, usually related to dictionary, others originate in a more surprising origin, with Ogilvi identifying three killers, a collector of pornography and Broadmur refuge among the most dedicated to the task. Volunteers would read books around certain thematic areas and were asked to send paper slips with “an offer for every word that strikes you as a rare, outdated, old -fashioned, new, special or special way” by the editor of the dictionary James Murray, who worked at the Scriptor Scriptfo Scriptfo. The Dictionary People is a captivating mix of social history and lexicographic nervousness. Thank you very much to Penguin Random House, Vintage Books for sending me to a copy for review via Netgalley.

Thread of violence from Mark O’Connell He looks at one of the most famous cases of murder in Ireland and is completely different from the previous books of the Irish author, won with the Wellcome award to be a machine and notes from the Apocalypse. In 1982, a socialist in Dublin in financial issues called Malcolm Macautur planned to rob a bank and killed two people when his attempts to steal a car and buy a gun did not go to plan. He was arrested at the home of the then-Antoni, which led to the collapse of the government and MacArthur, which served 30 years in prison. O’Connell is eventually placed at the center of the story through his interviews with Macaron, but not in the independent way that can be expected. His approach to the true crime is more meaningful than most, recognizing the ethical complexities of how victims and perpetrators represent, although his pursuit of “told consistency” is destroyed by the evasive responses of Macuratur about what he is rejected as his “criminal episode”. O’Connell’s impressive account offers an original lens to see a truly bizarre case, even if it remains brief for the final answers to MacArta himself.

Skipi dies from Paul Murray It was on the Boker Prize list in 2010. Put in Dublin’s boarding school, the title event takes place in the first chapter when Daniel Skippy Juster died during a pipe -eating competition. The story then returns to the events leading to his death, followed by the last section set during the consequences. This is a comic novel full of ideas and scattered acting of characters, and while I could live without some of the deviations of the Skip Room on String Theory, Murray is very good in dialogue, especially in depicting how teens actually talk to each other. Murray was also included in the Booker Award list for his latest novel Bee Sting, which I will watch.