Another marvelous discussion! I also enjoyed award-winning #Clear by #CarysDavies (do find interviews where she describes its inspiration). Never a Hemingway fan but these discussions always bring out things you've missed! Thanks to @harriettsg.bsky.social and her fine guests. #BookSky
Quick reading update about Clear by Carys Davies.
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Monday morning #collage inspired by the book #Clear by #CarysDavies
Just finished #West by #CarysDavies.
Would recommend! Trade your best thimble for a copy!
So thrilled that #CarysDavies has won this year’s #Ondaatje prize for ‘Clear’. It’s a beautiful book, and Carys is an exceptional writer.
Clear, by #CarysDavies
Started reading it at Chicago O'Hare Airport on Sunday evening. Finished it just now on my sofa at home. Have not slept in 25 hours.
Could.
Not.
Put.
It.
Down.
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Thoughts on the excellent novella Clear by #CarysDavies
A story of remote island living, lost language, forced change, rebellion and unexpected connection, while navigating Scottish history mid 1800's.
Loved it!
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Book cover of Clear by Carys Davies depicts a painting of a man in a dingy in the breakwater, dark menacing cloud with a spot of clear light coming through illuminating the waves beside him. 'A masterful, discreetly sublime book' Herman Diaz
In 1843, a rebel pastor agrees to evict the last inhabitant of a remote island.
In a blustery environment we witness the rhythms of Ivar, his bare survival. An encounter with the 1st man he's seen in years, the care he expends, brilliantly portrayed. Honours an ancient language.
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I adore this story. It’s a short novel about the kind of people I need more of in my life. It took a some turns that surprised me but in a real life real people kind of way. Pick it up! #reader #books #readeveryday #clear #carysdavies
Reading Wales Month 2025 banner 1 - 31 March 2025 Shows a stony beach, green algue covering some of the smooth beige stones in the foreground, and grass topped cliffs afar. Also, in the distance, people walk on the wet sand, blue sky with one white chemtrail top right of the scene.
March is also Reading Wales Month 25.
I read The Coward's Tale by Vanessa Gebbie some years ago, otherwise not much.
This weekend I'm reading Clear by Carys Davies and it's so good, one to savour.
What's your favourite Welsh novel?
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Book cover of a debut novel Clear by Carys Davies features an 1876 painting by Baade Knud Kunstner, Moonlight on the Norwegian Coast. In the background of the bookcover a photo of waves crashing.
A work of #islandliterature off the nth coast of Scotland 1843, the Highland Clearances
"He wished he could swim - the swimming belt felt like a flimsy thing and it had been no comfort to be told not to worry, the men couldn't swim either. "
#CarysDavies, Clear
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Happy publication day to Carys Davies - CLEAR is now out in paperback everywhere 💙
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Feeling strangely melancholy finished Samantha Harvey's Orbital. Strange, compelling little book. Anyhoo, I'm sure reading about the Clearances of 19th Century Scotland (Clear, Carys Davies) will cheer me right up.
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Finished up #Clear by #CarysDavies today. Remote Scottish Island? That's all I need know. Look forward to discussing with the bookgroup next week. #Booksky #scotland #newbooks
A very weather appropriate read on this cold wet day... A beautiful thing.
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…the difficulty, especially when it came to the weather and the water: for every new word Ivar gave John Ferguson, there always seemed to be another one that described a slightly different version of the same thing but which all too often…looked like exactly the same thing.
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