tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16458920292604877322024-03-14T01:50:34.699-07:00Barron's BlogAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04132147640587187826noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1645892029260487732.post-75107124716504957892014-10-23T14:14:00.001-07:002014-10-25T06:53:27.971-07:00Quicksilver Trilogy <div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The theme for the following sequence of poems is taken from an
observation on short stories which </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">states that </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">characters are 'from a submerged population
group desperately trying to return, to get back, somehow, </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">somewhere.' </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">The idea is to show the gradual decline of a
person’s unfortunate state of mind as they go through </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">three deteriorating stages.</span><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">The
first poem shows a factual journey of a few minutes, the second poem an </span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">escape into complete fantasy and finally the desperation of
someone suffering a complete and catastrophic </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">emotional breakdown.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">A descriptive title chosen for its’ everyday usage and while
still being ambiguous I created a </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">mechanical, sing song sound using the rhythm of the phrases to contrast with the panic
and emotion of the voice. The idea </span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">is to put human qualities on a piece of mechanical
equipment and to show the voice in the </span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">poem gradually descending into fear, desperation and panic.</span></div>
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<u><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">A Letter to a Friend (John Wayne's coming for tea)<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">A descriptive title but not the contents one would usually
find in a letter, the idea is that the letter </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">writer has retreated into television weather reports and writes a letter
based on this and a rose catalogue. If you </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">happen to read a rose catalogue there are a wealth of
fascinating names and descriptions to be found within. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">The </span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">tone of the poem is happy, almost euphoric and the form of a
letter is designed to make this very </span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">personal while at the same time conjuring up colourful pictures and images. I
deliberately left out </span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">punctuation such as question marks to show the decline
of the writer. The initial at the </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">bottom instead of a signature is to leave the writers’
identity anonymous and for the reader to </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">imagine or guess at the author’s personality and identity. True to say and a rather uncomfortable thought is that it could be anyone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">A title chosen from the many different definitions of
Mercury which are not usually associated with the </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">human condition. Mercury the planet is hinted at '36 000
miles to the sun', the sense of </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">foreboding associated with the ancient world messenger 'a conductor of souls to the underworld' </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">and the unpredictable qualities of the metallic element are
analogous to the subject’s condition.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">The reference to mercury, its fluidity and characteristics of equilibrium and balance so missing from the </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">subject was also very important. I tried to contrast the deeper
meanings of the element with the mundane every day </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">weather forecast and television themes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">The poem is deliberately dis-jointed and definitions hinted at, provoking the reader into </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">taking different interpretations of the text.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">A digit extends and stabs the up call</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Slowly there’s life in a tired accounts hall</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Worn switches send out an order to state</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Impatient, 'no time, must hurry, can’t wait'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Shot nerves of steel wind tight round a wheel</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">'Oh no! late again, this just isn’t real'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Lumbering and shaking a journey to make</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">'Please! Stop the clock, how long will it take?'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Down the lift goes past clerks grey and bleak</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">'Finished, no job, it’s the fourth time this week'</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">'Doors Open' now, a tin voice expounds</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Jump in, press the fourth – no movement, no sound.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">A shutdown, a breakdown, it won’t close the door</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Too tired, can’t go on, can’t cope any more.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;"><span style="color: #073763;">A letter to a friend (John Wayne’s coming for tea)<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: #073763;">Dear Evelyn,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: #073763;">Warm wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: #073763;">Ingrid Bergman called today to ask me to her Silver Wedding.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: #073763;">It’s at the Salmon Leap next to the Bridge of Sighs with music by Handel and Dusty<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: #073763;">I’m going with Emily Gray and Lady Penelope should be a grand affair.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: #073763;">Anyway must dash, John is coming round for tea, you remember John a quiet man<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: #073763;">rides horses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: #073763;">utterly fragile.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: #073763;">Fickle weather, mainly showers coming from the north<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">with</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"> patches of sun light<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Into our townlan, on a night of snow,<br />Rode a man from God-knows-where;<br />None of us bade him stay or go,<br />Nor deemed him friend, nor damned him foe.<br />But we stabled his big roan mare:<br />For in our townlan we're decent folk,<br />An if he didn't speak, why none of us spoke,<br />An we sat till the fire burned low.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We're a civil sort in our wee place,<br />So we made the circle wide<br />Round Andy Lemon's cheerful blaze,<br />An wished the man his length o days;<br />An a good end to his ride,<br />He smiled in under his slouchy hat<br />Says he: "There's a bit of a joke in that,<br />For we ride different ways."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The whiles we smoked we watched him<br />From his seat fornent the glow,<br />I nudged Joe Moore, "You wouldn't dare<br />To ask him who he's for meetin there,<br />An how far has he got to go?"<br />But Joe wouldn't dare, nor Wullie Boy Scott,<br />An he took no drink - neither cold nor hot<br />This man from God-knows-where.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was closin time, an late forbye,<br />When us ones braved the air<br />I ne'er saw worse, may I live or die,<br />Than the sleet that night, an I says, says I,<br />"Ye'll find he's for stoppin there."<br />But at screich o day, through the gable pane<br />I watched him spur in the peltin rain,<br />An I juked from his rovin eye.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Two winters more, then the Trouble Year,<br />When the best that a man could feel<br />Was the pike he kept in hidlin's near,<br />Till the blood o hate an the blood o fear<br />Would be redder nor rust on the steel.<br />Us ones quit from mindin the farms<br />Let them take what we gave wi the weight o our arms,<br />From Saintfield to Kilkeel.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the time o the hurry, tho we had no lead<br />We all of us fought with the rest<br />An if e'er a one shook like a tremblin reed<br />None of us gave neither hint nor heed,<br />Nor even showed we'd guessed.<br />We men of the North had a word to say,<br />An we said it then, in our own dour way,<br />An we spoke as we thought was best.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All Ulster over, the weemen cried<br />For the standin crops on the lan<br />Mony's the sweetheart an mony's the bride<br />Would liefer hae gone till where he died.<br />An hae murned her lone by her man,<br />But us ones weathered the thick of it,<br />An we used to dander along an sit<br />In Andy's side by side.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What with discourse goin to an fro,<br />The night would be wearin thin,<br />Yet never so late when we rose to go<br />But someone would say: "D'ye mind thon snow,<br />An the man came wanderin in?"<br />An we'd be fallin to talk again,<br />If by chance he was one o them<br />The man who went like the win</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Well, 'twas gettin on past the heat o the year<br />When I rode to Newtown fair;<br />I sold as I could - the dealers were near<br />Only three pounds eight for the Innis steer,<br />An nothin at all for the mare -<br />But I met McKee in the throng o the street<br />Says he, "The grass has grown under our feet<br />Since they hanged young Warwick here"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An he told me that Boney had promised help<br />To a man in Dublin town<br />Says he, "If ye've laid the pike on the shelf,<br />Ye'd best go home hot-foot by yerself,<br />An once more take it down."<br />So by Comber road I trotted the gray<br />An never cut corn until Killyleagh<br />Stood plain on the risin groun</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For a wheen o days we sat waitin the word<br />To rise an go at it like men,<br />But no French ships sailed into Cloughey Bay,<br />An we heard the black news on a harvest day<br />That the cause was lost again;<br />An Joey an me, an Wullie Boy Scott,<br />We agreed to ourselves we'd as lief as not<br />Hae been found in the thick o the slain</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By Downpatrick Gaol I was bound to fare<br />On a day I'll remember, faith<br />For when I came to the prison square<br />The people were waitin in hundreds there,<br />An you wouldn't hear stir nor breath<br />For the sodgers were standin, grim an tall,<br />Round a scaffold built fornent the wall,<br />An a man stepped out for death</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I was brave an near to the edge o the throng,<br />Yet I knowed the face again,<br />An I knowed the set, an I knowed the walk<br />An the sound of his strange up-country talk,<br />For he spoke out right an plain<br />Then he bowed his head to the swingin rope<br />While I said, "Please God" to his dyin hope<br />An "Amen" to his dyin prayer.<br />That the wrong would cease an the right prevail -<br />For the man that they hanged at Downpatrick Gaol<br />Was the man from God-knows-where</span></div>
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I have to be completely honest and admit I do not usually read a lot of short stories. So it is worth remembering when reading this review that I do not have a lot to compare to this story. What I can say is I enjoyed this story.<br />
This book was a lovely read. I read it from start to finish in one go because it piqued my interest. The story was easy going and fun in parts.<br />
I liked the fact that even though it was such a short story there was room for three different characters, you learned about their backgrounds and they all came together at the end of the book. The reason I think I liked it so much was because it made me think afterwards about how one person had so much responsibility and one foolish mistake could have ruined an entire community. I liked the characters and would like to learn more about their future so hopefully this book is just an introduction the lovely village of Carraigmore and the author will write a book where we learn about the future of the village and the characters. I am particularly interested in finding out what happens in Eddie's future.<br />
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I also liked Peggy O'Connor and would like to hear more about her as she added humour to the book and she was a character everyone would have met someone like her in their lifetime.<br />
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I enjoyed the stories that went back to the Grandfathers of the men and how they linked in to the present day story.<br />
There was a nice twist at the end. A short story with lots packed in to it.I would recommend this book if you would like a nice light read.<br />
I have been pondering whether to rate this 3 or 4 stars, I decided to go with 4 stars because it is a good read not just an ok read<br />
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I do not usually read short stories but the cover and title caught my attention. Glad I did download this as a freebie, I really enjoyed it.<br />
For me, it is a reminder and illustration of how our actions can effect others. In this story, Eddie's need of security for a loan could have changed the lives of a whole community on the other side of the world.<br />
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Books and films about death row are usually centred around the character who faces execution. I wanted to look at the peripheral characters, the chaplain, the people who physically carry out the task and the people that report it.<br /><br />On another level I wanted to reflect society's polarised opinion, to illustrate the grotesque carnival atmosphere somewhat akin to the public executions of the middle ages and contrast this with the beliefs of those opposed to capital punishment.<br /><br />And finally the character who faces the ultimate punishment, I wanted to juxtapose his mortality with the indifference and banality of society, the culture of bubblegum pop.</div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Africa, beautiful, serene ...... and
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now that she is alone, volunteering at a school in the
Central African Republic of Ducana seems like everything schoolteacher Ellie
Hathaway needs. Here is the opportunity to get away from the sleepy Cornish
village where recent tragedy still haunts her and to help the children's charity
her friend has worked so tirelessly to
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in the dusty town of Limba. Even as she begins to believe she can at last find
true happiness, she realises that something at the school is very
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="swSprite s_star_5_0 " title="5.0 out of 5 stars">5.0 out of 5 stars</span> </span><a class="txtlarge gl3 gr4 reviewTitle valignMiddle" href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R55P0OF71QND6/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00719ODS8&nodeID=133140011&store=digital-text"><strong><span style="color: #004b91; font-size: large;">Beautifully
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a wonderful book. Ellie, the main character, seems at
first to be a bit of a pushover, but like many unassuming women, she has great
inner strength that her friends and family rely upon. Finding herself alone
after a terrible tragedy, she decides to teach in Africa for a year, and finds
that there is much more going on than she originally believed. Ellie's wonderful
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was an excellent read for so many different reasons as the author has a
great eye for detail and gets this across to the reader most
effectively.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The contrast between a sleepy affluent Cornish village and
the stifling heat of a poverty stricken African village was really well
done.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">All the characters were all well drawn but the strength of the
story was the way in which the many different characters,sub plots and locations
were weaved together.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">The story cranked up the tension and
conflict, had elements of mystery and finished off with an
action packed ending.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I look forward to reading the next one.</span><br />
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story there was room for three different characters, you learned about their
backgrounds and they all came together at the end of the book. The reason I
think I liked it so much was because it made me think afterwards about how one
person had so much responsibility and one foolish mistake could have ruined an
entire community. I liked the characters and would like to learn more about
their future so hopefully this book is just an introduction the lovely village
of Carraigmore and the author will write a book where we learn about the future
of the village and the characters. I am particularly interested in finding out
what happens in Eddie's future.<br />
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I also liked Peggy O'Connor and would
like to hear more about her as she added humour to the book and she was a
character everyone would have met someone like her in their lifetime.<br />
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enjoyed the stories that went back to the Grandfathers of the men and how they
linked in to the present day story.<br />
There was a nice twist at the end. A
short story with lots packed in to it.I would recommend this book if you would
like a nice light read.<br />
I have been pondering whether to rate this 3 or 4
stars, I decided to go with 4 stars because it is a good read not just an ok
read<br />
So 4 stars from me and I hope I get to meet the people of Carraigmore
again soon.<br />
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Set in Ireland, an American seeks revenge for a perceived injustice to an
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I do not usually read short stories but the cover and title caught my
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POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT<br /><br />I have to be completely honest and admit I
do not usually read a lot of short stories. So it is worth remembering when
reading this review that I do not have a lot to compare to this story. What I
can say is I enjoyed this story.<br />This book was a lovely read. I read it from
start to finish in one go because it piqued my interest. The story was easy
going and fun in parts.<br />I liked the fact that even though it was such a short
story there was room for three different characters, you learned about their
backgrounds and they all came together at the end of the book. The reason I
think I liked it so much was because it made me think afterwards about how one
person had so much responsibility and one foolish mistake could have ruined an
entire community. I liked the characters and would like to learn more about
their future so hopefully this book is just an introduction the lovely village
of Carraigmore and the author will write a book where we learn about the future
of the village and the characters. I am particularly interested in finding out
what happens in Eddie's future.<br /><br />I also liked Peggy O'Connor and would
like to hear more about her as she added humour to the book and she was a
character everyone would have met someone like her in their lifetime.<br /><br />I
enjoyed the stories that went back to the Grandfathers of the men and how they
linked in to the present day story.<br />There was a nice twist at the end. A
short story with lots packed in to it.I would recommend this book if you would
like a nice light read.<br />I have been pondering whether to rate this 3 or 4
stars, I decided to go with 4 stars because it is a good read not just an ok
read<br />So 4 stars from me and I hope I get to meet the people of Carraigmore
again soon.<br /><br />Becky Sherriff (The Kindle Book Review)
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Set in Ireland, an American seeks revenge for a perceived injustice to an
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I do not usually read short stories but the cover and title caught my
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me, it is a reminder and illustration of how our actions can effect others. In
this story, Eddie's need of security for a loan could have changed the lives of
a whole community on the other side of the world.<br />Henry's long held grudge
could have had the same effect.<br />Tara's involvement - decide for yourself. </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04132147640587187826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1645892029260487732.post-61258822392141442002012-04-20T10:17:00.002-07:002012-05-31T10:18:26.972-07:00Kindle Short Stories<br />
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his job, mounting debts an indolent wife and for Eddie time is running
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afflictions far worse than any physical injuries.</span><br />
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life might take on some form of normality.</span><br />
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do not have a lot to compare to this story. What I can say is I enjoyed this
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This book was a lovely read. I read it from start to finish in one go
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came together at the end of the book. The reason I think I liked it so much was
because it made me think afterwards about how one person had so much
responsibility and one foolish mistake could have ruined an entire community. I
liked the characters and would like to learn more about their future so
hopefully this book is just an introduction the lovely village of Carraigmore
and the author will write a book where we learn about the future of the village
and the characters. I am particularly interested in finding out what happens in
Eddie's future. I also liked Peggy O'Connor and would like to hear more about
her as she added humour to the book and she was a character everyone would have
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And just a reminder the C.T.S. are holding their annual spring fete in two weeks time, all are welcome, we're looking forward to a great fun day out for all the family.<br />
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Unfortunately our worst fears were realised at the Carraigmore St Patrick's day Parade. Members of the Occupy Carraigmore protest group rioted in the financial district and the crack Carraigmore Special Patrol Squad had to be called in.<br />
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Chief Inspector Fitzy Mcgonagle said 'As much as we tried we were completely unprepared for this.<br />
We've been to Iraq and Afghanistan and studied policing methods but you just can't legislate for this type of anarchy.'<br />
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It appears the biggest problem was a splinter group of the Occupy protests The Greencastle Red Hand Brigade.<br />
Fitzy said. 'We drew on our experience of the riots in England and managed to kettle them in for a few hours until we could bring in the water cannon and tear gas. '<br />
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Unfortunately and worringly The Greencastle Red Hand Brigade are a new and completely subversive element.<br />
'They're a feckin law unto themselves,' said Fitzy 'Sometimes they're on the streets until well past seven o' clock.'<br />
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