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... by Muriel Barbery
Really Liked:
The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Lienenberg
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Perhaps Should have Liked but Didn't:
Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
A Mercy by Toni Mo ...
... to one of Andrew's Barbara Comynses.
NO! Five things at a time = enough!
(Has anybody here read Sadie Jones's The Outcast ? I've been dipping into it a little and liking it.....It was on the Orange Broadband long list last year. AND when Wolf Hall, which was released today - and ...
The Outcast by Sadie Jones (UK, 2008)
34. The Outcast by Sadie Jones
35. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
... has an insightful interview with Sadie Jones , author of The Outcast . Her latest novel, Small Wars, will be released on Thursday.
'Even when we ...
... has an insightful interview with Sadie Jones , author of The Outcast . Her latest novel, Small Wars, will be released on Thursday.
'Even when we ...
I recently read and enjoyed Saide Jones's first book The Outcast , which takes place in England from 1945-57.
75> I just finished The Outcast and highly recommend it, with the caution that it's not a light summer read.
Personally, I just couldn't get into the two Booker winners, Half of a Yellow Sun and The Inheritance of Loss. (I tend to prefer the longlist titles.) And La Cucina is on my ...
... been getting very good reviews from most of you)
Paradise by Toni Morrison
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout (whose Olive Kitteridge was excellent)
or
La Cucina by Lily Prior
The Outcast has been on my tbr pile for awhile. After your excellent review, I'm moving it up closer to the top. And, like BDB, I gave your review a thumbs up.
I read The Outcast last year after Lois (avaland) mentioned it on her thread. I found the story totally compelling. Since it was Jones' debut novel, I cannot wait to see what she writes next.
I really enjoyed The Outcast when I read it earlier this year too - though I guess, like with so many "dark" reads, "enjoyed" doesn't really sound like the right word. I'm glad it has found another fan! Great review, Cariola!
I got caught up in The Outcast by Sadie Jones and was up until 3:30 last night finishing it. That says something for the power of the book--even though, in terms of content, it is probably the most depressing book I've ever read. If you're looking for a light summer read, don't pick up this ...
61. The Outcast by Sadie Jones.
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The Outcast by Sadie Jones.
I got so caught up in The Outcast that I stayed up until 3:30 last night finishing it. That says something for the power of the book--e ...
I am reading The Outcast by Sadie Jones. So far it's good (but probably the most depressing novel I've read in years).
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
1. It's an ARC that I got from a Book Moocher.
2. $0 (unless you want to count the shipping for the point I earned).
3. I'm reading it as part of the Orange July challenge.
4. Maybe six months.
5. The tone is reminding me of The Hours, a book ...
Got two at B&N yesterday, didn't realize until I got home that I had a theme running:
The Outcast by Sadie Jones (fiction)
Outcasts Unlimited by Warren St. John
#26 The Outcast by Sadie Jones was a great book. I really enjoyed the stroy. It was a little slow at first but by the middle of the book it was great.
... read. It is about a brother dealing with the death of his sister and how he has to get over that it wasn't his fault.
#26The Outcast by Sadie Jones, an interesting read so far.
So, I did end up buying another Orange book, yesterday, at Barnes and Noble. I bought The Outcast by Sadie Jones which was an Orange Shortlist selection.
Yesterday from Barnes and Noble:
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory by Lawrence Wright
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple by Deborah Layton
In a Dark Wood by Amanda Craig
... the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
The Monkey King by Timothy Mo
Evening Is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan
Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman
Levittown: Two F ...
... the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
The Monkey King by Timothy Mo
Evening Is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan
Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman
Levittown: Two F ...
... of the actual ending of the world, and more of The Man's wife, who was only mentioned in the book a few times. Oh, and The Outcast was one of those books that I almost bought a million times too - so I am glad I finally did!
#296, 297, 298 - Thanks for your comments! I really love ...
Congratulations on two hot reviews listed on today's home page, one for People of the Book, the other for The Outcast .
Blackdog books has a hot review listed today as well.
I always feel proud when I see that members of our group get so many hot reviews.
dianestm in 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Cait86's 2009 Reading (May 17, 2009, 7:08pm)
Thanks for another good review on The Outcast and another book for the TBR mountain.
#295 I have also seen the trailer for The Road and it does look really good. It will be one movie that I go to for sure.
The Outcast is a book I have picked up so many times, I thought I owned it. Now, it officially goes on the look out list. Of course, now I will not see it again for a long time. THat's the way of the used book gods!
By the way, I hunted up and viewed a trailer for The Road movie with Viggo ...
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
After two not-so-great reads, The Outcast was exactly what I needed to get over my reading slump. While definitely not a cheery book, The Outcast is emotionally moving, physically shocking, and beautifully written.
Sadie Jones' ...
Lots of interesting titles 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), ...
#215: I am adding Annie's Ghosts to the Continent thanks to your review!
#217: I thought The Outcast as very good when I read it last year and could not believe it was a first effort. Glad you enjoyed it as well, Cyrel.
53. The Outcast by Sadie Jones. This first novel packs quite a punch. Jones has created quite a disfunctional set of families that live in a small town with commuting distance of London, England in the just after World War II and the fifties. Lewis is the child, and later a young man, who has ...
53. The Outcast by Sadie Jones. This first novel packs quite a punch. Jones has created quite a disfunctional set of families that live in a small town with commuting distance of London, England in the just after World War II and the fifties. Lewis is the child, and later a young man, who has ...
I am reading The Outcast by Sadie Jones and Annie's Ghosts by Steve Luxenberg. I like both so far.
number 10 : The outcast by Sadie Jones. Nice book with a kind of suspense that is there but not really present, erupts now and then, goes away, comes back .... nice build up. Again violence on children as one of the central themes, scary. (see my review of Purple Hibiscus).
This one will ...
... of Sarajevo – Steven Galloway
All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy
People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks
The Outcast – Sadie Jones
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
All of these authors are new to me, except for Cormac McCarthy, who I discovered this year and love!
... Death when I read it last year, but she has got better. A great medieval whodunnit with a fabulous, feisty heroine.
16. The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Can people really be that broken and damaged, or worse, that blind to the emotional problems of their children while they keep up ...
I'm now in post-WWII England with Sadie Jones's The Outcast
... Fear and Trembling, Amelie Nothomb
9) A thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
10) French Milk, Lucy Knisely
11) The Outcast , Sadie Jones
12) The Whiskey Rebels David Liss
13) Twenty Chickens for a Saddle Robyn Scott
14) Kaffir Boy Mark Mathabane
15 Good Bye Chunky Rice Cra ...
Might only have been alcohol, but I was thinking of The Outcast by Sadie Jones. The whole collection of characters were royally screwed up, I forget exactly by what means. Others who have read it, might be able to step in here . . .
I read The Outcast last year and enjoyed it very much. I am glad you discovered it - and that it was a book you could finally enjoy!
8) The Outcast by Sadie Jones 441 pages
I finally found a book that I enjoyed!! This book was like a roller coaster of activity. It tells the story of a boy, Lewis, and his growing up process. This book makes me greatly dislike his father.
It finally worked out!! YAYYY!!
8/75 (10.7%)
2,6 ...
... Henning Mankell. If you have enjoyed Mankell I think you would enjoy this.
So far in February I have read:
The Outcast by Sadie Jones - This is interesting in the contrast between it and Revolutionary Road. Both deal with the fifties but The Outcast is written ...
Oh oh, more books for Mt TBR. I'm adding The Outcast and The Unconsoled, and probably Snow Country, and The Winners is moving up on my list.
... Orringer
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
... Award category winners for 2008 have just been announced:
2008 Costa First Novel Award Winner : Sadie Jones - The Outcast
Judges: "This books portrayal of pain makes it a riveting and heartbreaking read - it's rare for a first novel to be this assured."
2008 Costa Nove ...
... Orringer
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
That's 9; it was impossible to choose a 10th as there were so many it could have been (The Idea of Perfection, The Farming of Bones, N ...
... respectively.
Debut authors Jesmyn West, Sadie Jones and Jason Brown (their first books are Where the Line Bleeds, The Outcast , and Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work, respectively.
YA author Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, author of The Shadow Speaker (who just won a Wole Soyink ...
... Dutch)
3. The View from Castle Rock: Stories by Alice Munro (Read in August, in Dutch)
4.The Outcast by Sadie JonesThe Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Read in January, in Dutch)
6. Replay by Ken ...
... by women.
My awards:
Best debut novel/American - Where the Line Bleeds by Jesmyn Ward
Best debut novel/UK - The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Best reread - tie! Handmaid's Tale and The Idea of Perfection
Most Intriguing Poetry Collection: The Anatomy Theater by Nadine Meyer
Best ...
... particular order... (and tomorrow i would probably pick a different five)
Children of the New World by Assia Djebar
Outcast by Sadie Jones
The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi
Sorry by Gail Jones
Where the Line Bleeds by Jesmyn Ward
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
1st runner up - ...
... by Doris Pilkington (nonfiction, 136 pages)
90. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (nonfiction, 288 pages)
91. The Outcast by Sadie Jones (fiction, 345 pages)
92. No One Belongs Here More than You: Stories by Miranda July (fiction, 201 pages)
... historical and the second is contemporary – both are brilliant!
Books I Won't Want to Keep After Reading: The Outcast by Sadie Jones
I should have kept it!
Non Fiction: Agatha Christie: An English Mystery by Laura Thompson
A wonderful biography †...
... War by Assia Djebar, early novel by a favorite author - one day in the war in one town. Written when she was just 26.
The Outcast by Sadie Jones, another debut novel which made the Orange Prize longlist.
Pillar of Salt by Albert Memmi, a classic by the noted Tunisian author.
Nervous C ...
>Rachbxl (& Stasia), Glad you both enjoyed The Outcast . Your review, Rach, brought it all back to me. Such a well-done book (that was a debut novel, wasn't it?).
>212, 213 I think it is a fine balance. Clearly, some bluffing is necessary for a variety of reasons, but I would think the very ...
#209 - not about The Outcast but I I just picked up on your note on 1950s England... I'm reading The Golden Notebook at the moment, and I think that is one of the things I'm struggling with the most: it's set in the 1950s, but the characters are speaking and acting in a way that I would ...
Hi rachbxl.
Thanks for your wonderful review of The Outcast . I'm moving this up toward the top of the tbr pile.
#209 rachbxl: I read The Outcast earlier this year (also based on avaland's recommendation), and boy, was I impressed. It is a terrific book. Glad to see that you liked it as well.
81. The Outcast by Sadie Jones
I've been in a book slump for a couple of weeks, but this fantastic book, a recommendation from avaland (thanks, Lois!) got me right out of it.
Like On Chesil Beach, the backdrop to this novel is the stifling, oppressive atmosphere of 1950's England. T ...
... roses by Willem Elsschot (finished on 15 feb.)
3. Verstoten by Sadie Jones (finished on 14 april)
4. De eenzaamheid der priemgetallen by Paolo Giordano (finished on 13 june)
5. Een demon in Brussel by Kamiel Vanhole (fini ...
... for Premio Strega 2006 (finished on 15 feb.)
4. Verstoten by Sadie Jones , shortlisted Orange Broadband Prize for fiction 2008 (finished on 14 april)
5. De hekkenbouwers by Magnus Mills, shortlisted for the Booker prize 1998 (fi ...
#83 Porch Reader: I completely agree with you on The Outcast (which I stole of avaland's list, too). It is a very powerful novel and hard to believe it is a first book. I will definitely be on the watch for more books by Sadie Jones.
Thanks for the wonderful description of The Outcast by Sadie Jones...to the mountainous TBR pile it goes.
And, off to the library I go.
#64 - The Outcast - Sadie Jones - Finished October 1, 2008
Wow! I loved this book. Another great recommendation from Avaland.
This is a beautifully written first novel. The book begins as Lewis Aldridge returns home from prison at the age of nineteen. Through an extended flashback, we ...
Thanks, Avaland. I'm reading another of your recommendations - The Outcast - right now. Wow! What a great first novel. I'll post more when I finish it.
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Richard and Judy
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2 Addition by Toni Jordan
3 The Resurrectionist by James Bradley
4 The Private lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller
5 N ...
Book #55
Title: The Outcast
Author: Sadie Jones
Source: Charity Shop
Destination: ReadItSwapIt
Classed as: Books I own but won't want to keep after reading
Could also have been classed as: First time authors
Thoughts: This is an compelling debut novel, telling a story of ...
the Outcast by Sadie Jones - interesting novel well worth reading
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29 Addition by Toni Jordan
30 The Resurrectionist by James Bradley
31 The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller
32 Changes at Fairacre by Miss Read
33 No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
alcottacre in 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : AlcottAcre's 2008 Reads (Jun 29, 2008, 7:35am)
This week's reading:
210. The Outcast by Sadie Jones - Very good book, thanks avaland for the recommendation
211. O Jerusalem by Laurie R. King - audiobook
212. The Queen's Man by Sharon Kay Penman - first book of hers that I have read and I really liked it, so I will ...
#88: I finally got to read The Outcast over the weekend and it was wonderful! I felt so much for the characters of Lewis and Kit. Thank you for recommending it, avaland. A truly good book.
... Bray. Yet another page-turning YA supernatural romance. This summer I can't seem to get enough of them.
42. The Outcast by Sadie Jones. A book filled with almost every kind of dysfunction you can imagine. But also a story of struggling for redemption... and finding it. Abso ...
Just to say that I, too, have added The Outcast to my wishlist - you should get commission, avaland!
... by William H. Honan
The Island of Lost Maps by Miles Harvey
African Laughter by Doris Lessing
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman
Finished The Outcast by Sadie Jones, an excellent read. I left comments on the book's page here on LT if anyone has it in their TBR pile.
Have started The Given Day by Dennis Lehane, notable for his novel Mystic River. This is a departure for him, an historical fiction set during ...
Loved The Outcast . So much sadness, tragedy (also so much hypocrisy, drinking, abuse...) but strangely not depressing - I think because the emotion of the book continues to propel you along towards a cathartic climax and you hope...
Have they ever given the prize to a debut novel?
#88: I have already put The Outcast on hold at my local library. I am anxious to see how I like it.
Thank you for your excellent, concise reviews. I'll now have to keep on the lookout for The Outcast .
finished The Outcast last night - a very emotional, mesmerizing book. The story is about a young boy/man who after his mother's death is withdrawn, self-destructive and well, broken. He is oddly compelling. I've added my comments (not really a review) to the book's page (I see there is also a ...
The book I'm reading now, The Outcast , has two sisters, the older (Tasmin) quite beautiful. She is 16 and fully aware of the power it gives her in attracting attention generally and also that of men. The younger sister is just reaching puberty, not pretty (apparently), bookish, and somewhat less ...
... a time when I have more brain cells available. The novel looks quite promising.
So, in the meantime, I have picked up The Outcast by Sadie Jones which is on the Orange Prize shortlist. It caught my interest pretty quickly.
... a time when I have more brain cells available. The novel looks quite promising.
So, in the meantime, I have picked up The Outcast by Sadie Jones which is on the Orange Prize shortlist. It caught my interest pretty quickly.
I have The Outcast , and I'll definitely be looking for The Road Home.
The Shortlist was announced today as:
Fault Lines by Nancy Huston
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
When We Were Bad by Charlotte Mendelson
Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
Lottery by Patricia Wood
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The Master Bedroom by Tessa Hadley
Fault Lines by Nancy Huston
Sorry by Gail Jones
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg
When We Were Bad by Charlotte Mendelson
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Sorry by Gail Jones
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg
When We Were Bad by Charlotte Mendelson
kgramer in 50 Book Challenge : kristen's 50 books to read (Mar 3, 2008, 8:43am)
... England - Brock Clarke
36. Mozart's sister - Rita Charbonnier
37. Mommy tracked - Whitney Gaskell
38. The outcast: a novel - Sadie Jones
39. Roommates wanted - Lisa Jewell
40. Acceptance - Susan Coll
41. The English American - Alison Larkin
42. Nev ...
... Book of Air and Shadows by Michael Gruber (June)
6. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller (July)
7. The Outcast by Sadie Jones (August)
8. Transgressions by Sarah Dunant (September)
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