Classics ReaderMar 9
Recently finished #BrooklynNovel #ColmTóibín Three out of four stars. Would recommend. Would read again. "Eilis Lacey, sitting at the window of the upstaris living room in the house on Friary Street, noticed her sister walking briskly from work." In progress: #BonjourTristesse #FrançoiseSagan
Classics ReaderMar 5
Recently finished #TheMysteriousAffairAtStyles #AgathaChristie Three out of four stars. Would recommend. Would read again. "The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided." In progress: #BrooklynNovel #colmtoibin
Culture | The Guardian USDec 13
‘This extraordinary story never goes out of fashion’: 30 authors on the books they give to everyone https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/13/this-extraordinary-story-never-goes-out-of-fashion-30-authors-on-the-books-they-give-to-everyone #Scienceandnaturebooks #Childrenandteenagers #JeanetteWinterson #RobertMacfarlane #KatherineRundell #KamilaShamsie #MichaelRosen #NikeshShukla #TessaHadley #WilliamBoyd #JonathanCoe #ElifShafak #ColmTóibín #DianaEvans #NinaStibbe #Christmas #MaxPorter
‘This extraordinary story never goes out of fashion’: 30 authors on the books they give to everyone

Colm Tóibín, Robert Macfarlane, Elif Shafak, Michael Rosen and more share the novels, poetry and memoirs that make the perfect gift

The Guardian
Culture | The Guardian USJul 14, 2025
Brooklyn and beyond: Colm Tóibín’s best books – ranked! https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/14/brooklyn-and-beyond-colm-toibins-best-books-ranked #ColmTóibín #Fiction #Culture #Books
Brooklyn and beyond: Colm Tóibín’s best books – ranked!

As the Irish author turns 70, we rate his best works of fiction – from his latest, Long Island, to his emotionally wrenching ‘masterpiece’

The Guardian
BlairMay 21, 2025
Wonderful to see the hugely entertaining Colm Tóibín in conversation with Jason Steger this evening, mostly talking about his new novel Long Island. #colmtoibin #literature #irishliterature #longisland
Show threadStan CareyApr 21, 2025

"Andersen was perhaps too young to know how memory and regret can mingle, how much sorrow can be held within, and how nothing seems to have any shape or meaning until it is well past and lost" —Colm Tóibín, The Master

#books #reading #ColmTóibín #literature #IrishLiterature #HenryJames #memory

Show threadStan CareyApr 19, 2025

"When everyone else had fire in their blood, he was calm. So calm that he could neither read nor think, merely bask in the freedom that the afternoon offered, savour, as deeply as he could, this quiet and strange treachery, his own surreptitious withdrawal from the world."

—Colm Tóibín, The Master

#books #reading #ColmTóibín #literature #IrishLiterature #HenryJames

Stan CareyApr 19, 2025

This was on the unread shelf too long, but the wait was worth it. It's uncommonly good.

#books #reading #ColmTóibín #novel #literature #IrishLiterature #HenryJames

Show threadsearchpartyJan 19, 2025

Die @ZEITONLINE sieht das Ende eher positiv.

https://www.zeit.de/kultur/literatur/2024-07/long-island-colm-toibin-irland-migration-usa-roman

Warum bin ich so unzufrieden mit dem Ende, wo ich‘s doch bei Filmen wirklich mag und elegant finde, wenn sie in einem Schwebezustand enden? Liegt es daran, dass ich mich zwei Monate lang durch dieses Buch gekämpft habe und am Ende nicht mal ein Ende dafür bekomme?

#LongIsland #ColmToibin

"Long Island" von Colm Tóibín: Keine Geschichte endet mit dem letzten Satz

Ausweglos erscheinen die Liebesdrei- und -vierecke in Colm Tóibíns "Long Island". Von großer Liebe und einer ebensolchen Entscheidung erzählt der Roman im Schwebezustand.

ZEIT ONLINE
RTE News HeadlinesJan 14, 2025

[16:23] 'It was the end of the world' - Colm Tóibín on LA fires

Irish writer Colm Tóibín, who is currently living in Los Angeles, has said he thought the wildfires currently devastating the city were like "the end of the world".

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0114/1490777-colm-toibin-la-wildfires/

#Irish #ColmTóibín #LosAngeles