Claire Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Oof, there’s a whopper in the @BacklistedPod #BookAdventCalendar in the form of The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake and Titus Awakes by Maeve Gilmore (https://t.co/5dpCa1dRlW). https://t.co/nliVioFuXd

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The @BacklistedPod #BookAdventCalendar today brought me Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt - apparently this was the most problematic gift to get this year (https://t.co/10Ev9RAiNH) - and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (https://t.co/3n0iXWNq1g) https://t.co/AyjV59PcYi

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Finished Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofor, and blimey, it was quite a journey! I didn’t know anything about it before I started and it paid dividends. More often than not now, I buy books based on cover, author or recommendations, and don’t read the blurb!

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Another two empty slots filled on my @BacklistedPod shelves in the #BookAdventCalendar today, with Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg (https://t.co/jxlWevMlh3) and De Profundis by Oscar Wilde (https://t.co/irJpr5hNoM). https://t.co/VMSTeDMQ7E

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Today the gift in my advent calendar is The Journal of a Disappointed Man by W. N. P. Barbellion. I read it on my Kindle straight after the @BacklistedPod episode (https://t.co/V9PPEHJ6kB) so I’m pleased to have a book to go on the shelf #bookadventcalendar https://t.co/nDPwbZUKxa

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Two hefty tomes in my @BacklistedPod #BookAdventCalendar today. The metaphorically hefty Tristram Shandy by Laurence Stern (https://t.co/gZC7J4ES5Q) and the physically hefty Are You Somebody? by Nuala O’Faolain (https://t.co/6F07khcuF7). https://t.co/MrsrbOXyz5

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Next up is A Musical Offering by Luis Sagasti, translated by Fionn Petch, published by @CharcoPress. https://t.co/H1qw2V2Gy3

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I couldn’t be happier with my 3rd December @BacklistedPod advent gift! Not one, not two, but three Sylvia Townsend Warner books. Lolly Willowes (ep. 8) was a joy, and I’m currently reading The True Heart so more of her books can only be a very good thing. #bookadventcalendar https://t.co/PF2E1YB2Ud

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Two books wrapped up for me on my @BacklistedPod advent calendar today! The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy (from episode 113 https://t.co/ASHJ1vyvrS) along with Troy Chimneys too (recommended on episode 109 https://t.co/ylaB5esOGo). #bookadventcalendar BUT … https://t.co/GzwsF3Uu4a

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Another brilliant @BacklistedPod book finished - Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg. An autobiographical novel but I have no idea where the biography stopped and the novel started! Beautifully written, and excellently translated by Jenny McPhee. Fab. https://t.co/H22djjFf1P