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| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | Girlybooks : ORANGE JANUARY 2010 | | 10 | wandering_star, Yesterday 2:13am |  |
| 999 Challenge : Pamelad's 999 #2 | | 178 | pamelad, Yesterday 1:34am | |
| 100 Books Challenge for 2009 : Cataluna's 100 book challenge for 2009 | | 21 | cataluna, Wednesday 3:43am | |
| 50 Book Challenge : parmaviolet's 50 book challenge for 2009 | | 57 | parmaviolet, December 16 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : Judylou's 1001 | | 41 | judylou, December 12 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : The 1001 Books 'I've Read That' chain game - part 4 | | 222 | jfetting, December 5 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : Katrina 1001 attempt | | 14 | katrinasreads, October 29 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : merry10's 2008 challenge | | 222 | merry10, August 17 | |
| Book talk : Another Silly Game Part 22 | | 407 | moibibliomaniac, July 8 | |
| 999 Challenge : merry10's 999 challenge | | 51 | merry10, June 23 | |
| The Prizes : Commonwealth Writers Prize | | 42 | socialpages, May 26 | |
| Book talk : Stupid game to play | | 437 | careyi, May 4 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : Least Favourite 1001 Book of 2008 | | 30 | actonbell, March 11 | |
| The Prizes : The Orange | | 91 | Nickelini, March 6 | |
| Book talk : Another Silly Game, Part 16 | | 283 | FAMeulstee, November 2008 | |
| The Prizes : The Booker | | 210 | Nickelini, October 2008 | |
| Book talk : Another Silly Game, Part 12 | | 358 | FAMeulstee, September 2008 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : going up? going down... | | 21 | MarianV, August 2008 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : All About "Me" | | 19 | mamalaz, August 2008 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - May. 2008 | | 236 | annatapl, June 2008 | |
| Girlybooks : A Dozen Years of Nominees | | 84 | avisannschild, June 2008 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Complete Sentences, Please! | | 27 | MonkeyRobo, February 2008 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Late as usual . . . judylou | | 76 | judylou, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - November 2007 | | 164 | poemsforkeeps, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Books that lead to other books | | 10 | Mr.Durick, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Another Silly Game to Play -- Continued! | | 416 | Lman, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Top Books read first half of 2007 January-June | | 59 | Nickelini, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: List Five Books Parlour Game : Why Can' t You Be More Possessive?! | | 17 | mzonderm, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: Australian LibraryThingers : Booker Prize Shortlist 2006 | | 7 | bigglesmith, November 2006 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 7 Oct 2006 | | 112 | SqueakyChu, October 2006 | |
| Dormant: BookerPrize_ReadingGroup : 2006 Man Booker Prize | | 2 | Sivani, September 2006 | |
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Fugitive Pieces
The Idea of Perfection
Half a Yellow Sun
The Road Home
Fall on Your Knees
Brick Lane
Carry Me Down
Unless
Purple Hibiscus
Oryx and Crake
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
I won't be reading them all, but will hopefully make a bit of a ... >157 - - Carry Me Down is the only book of M J Hyland's that I have read but do have her latest This is How on my TBR to read over the holidays.
Congratulations on completeing 999 Challenge round No 2 - excellent effort. MrsPenny, I'll look for others by M. J. Hyland. Carry Me Down is the first I've read. Any others you'd particularly recommend?
Tui, MrsPenny and I, fellow colonials, have rated it highly. Worth a look.
>153 Pam - I read Carry Me Down last year and found it absorbing from the first few pages - I particularly liked the way the author was able to create the sense of approaching disaster as the reader came to know the family and its secrets. Have you read any of M J Hyland's other novels? ... digifish, so I'll have to read it again. A bad memory is a blessing when it comes to re-reading books.
Just finished Carry Me Down by M. J. Hyland. At the start the main character, an 11 year-old Irish boy, seems appealingly eccentric, but as we learn more about him the story darkens. ... Must be time for another bump, then. Anyone for Carry Me Down by Mo J Hyland? ...
The Accidental Blah...
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Supposed to be funny... apparently
Mother's Milk
Carry Me Down
The Inheritance of Loss Shouldn't have won the Booker
Half a Yellow Sun
Season of Migration to the North Excellent book about obsession
Carry Me Down by M. J. Hyland. ... was crap, so much so that I was overheard uttering - DON his name's Don - sorry tangent, 'Thank FUCK for that!"
4. Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland - Our first book club book for the year. I did enjoy it and it was easy to read but I'm still all a little huh? A couple points in the book ... ... inertia and despair; these follow fast on the heels of the hopes and dreams of youth.
12. M.J. Hyland: Carry me down
 mrspenny in 999 Challenge : merry10's 999 challenge (Jan 27, 2009, 6:26am) merry10 - I agree some parts of Carry Me Down were disturbing and with the continuing undercurrent of violence throughout the novel, it was inevitable that there was going to be a catastrophic climax. merry10 - I notice you still have a space on your Orange nominees. I have just finished Carry Me Down by M J Hyland for the Orange January Read - it was on the Orange longlist in 2007 and is the story of a young boy and the problems he faces as he tries to negotiate life and the problems it ... ... are the ones I have read:-
1. Falling Man Don DeLillo
2. The Inheritance of Loss Kieran Desai
3. Carry Me Down M.J. Hyland
4. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian Marina Lewycka
5. The Sea John Banville
6. The Line of Beauty Alan Hol ... Carry Me Down by MJ Hyland. Still a worthy book, but I didn't like it. Probably has themes in common with We need to talk about Kevin and The Fifth Child. Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland. Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland 81. Carry Me Down, M.J. Hyland, 2006
Disquieting psychological study of how personal truth is mediated by circumstance and relationships. ... A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - shortlist
Jane Harris, The Observations - shortlist
M J Hyland, Carry Me Down
Lori Lansens, The Girls
Lisa Moore, Alligator
Catherine O’Flynn, What Was Lost
Stef Penney, The Tenderness of Wolves
Deborah Robertson, Careles ... I love Amazon, they send me great stuff. Today I got Carry Me Down, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Lush Life. I also got the new Portishead CD for listening while I read. infosleuth, that is fantastic!
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Let the Wind Speak
Carry Me Down
Forget Kathmandu
It's not about the Bike
Everything is Illuminated
Things Fall Apart
Hmm, that lot were all on the first page of my library! So on that evidence it's about 7% :-) ... dition...
I was given How to talk to a widower on the plane, which kept me going, then the same person provided me with Carry me down when she'd finished it.
Got home to discover Sarraounia by Mamani Abdoulaye, which is exciting because it's Nigerien! Unfortunately it's in French, ... I read the curious incident of the dog in the night-time. Then I read carry me down, both about english boys. England is so cool! The writers write in the same way, too! Or maybe it's just because my dad went there... "I wonder if ninety pounds would be enough for one ticket."
Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland
Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber
Carry Me Down
The Thirty-nine Steps
The Decline of Deference
Falling Angels ... by Nuala O'Faolain
As for ME and My House by Sinclair Ross
At First I Hope for Rescue by Holly Rubinsky
Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland
Deborah, Golda, and Me by Letty Pogrebin
... McInerney
17. Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany
18. Praise by Andrew McGahan
19. Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland
20. Labyrinth by Kate Moss
21. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
22. Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
23. ... My top five:
Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany (1)
Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland (1)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (1)
Ines of My Soul by Isabel Allende (1)
We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver (2)
I could easily add two or ... ... (yes, I actually read it...we were on a road trip and there wasn't a big selection at the drug stores along the road)
Carry Me Down I wasn't mad about Carry Me Down partly because I was fed up with child narrators. That gave me a negative bias which was no fault of the author.
I would suggest you wait for the shortlist - if it ain't on it, don't read it. In comparison, I started Half of a Yellow Sun last night and ... I've read The Inheritance of Loss, The Observations, Carry Me Down and Digging To America. Of these Diggiing to America is my favourite. Think I must read Half of a Yellow Sun because of all the good reviews. ...
This years nominees include Half of a Yellow Sun, The Emperor's Children, The View From Castle Rock, Sacred Games, Carry Me Down, Black Swan Green, In the Country of Men, Theft: A Love Story. I finished: 1) Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee - very good but left a lot of questions spinning about in my head 2) Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland (nominated for the Booker Prize. Unfortunately I've gone off child narrators so didn't really enjoy it.
Reading now: The Mathematics of Love by E ... ... Grenville and M.J. Hyland on the shortlist. Of the nominees I have read The Night Watch, The Secret River and Carry Me Down. I prefer the Grenville book out of these, so I'm tipping her. Who knows though - the Booker can be like the lottery sometimes. ... ay)
Nadine Gordimer : Get a Life (Bloomsbury)
Kate Grenville : The Secret River (Canongate)
M.J. Hyland : Carry Me Down (Canongate)
Howard Jacobson : Kalooki Nights (Jonathan Cape)
James Lasdun : Seven Lies (Jonathan Cape)
Mary Lawson : The Other Side of the ... ... : The Inheritance of Loss - Hamish Hamilton
Kate Grenville : The Secret River - Canongate
M.J. Hyland : Carry Me Down - Canongate
Hisham Matar : In the Country of Men - Viking
Edward St Aubyn : Mother's Milk - Picador
Sarah Waters : The Night Watch - Virag ... ... read The Secret River by Kate Grenville and The Night Watch by Sarah Waters. So far Grenville is winning. Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland is also on the shortlist so the Australian contingent is lokking good. Has anyone read any of the others? ... Gathering the Water
Nadine Gordimer's Get a Life
Kate Grenville's The Secret River
M.J. Hyland's Carry Me Down
Howard Jacobson's Kalooki Nights
James Lasdun's Seven Lies
Mary Lawson's The Other Side of the Bridge
Jon McGregor's So many ways ...
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