Received from Netgalley for review, thank you. I love the one-sentence premise: that four generations of Irish women are on a road trip – "one is dead, one is dying, one is driving, and one is just starting out." And that is the strict truth.
I own a book or two by Roddy Doyle, but this is ...
This book was slow for me and hard to connect with. There were elements that I enjoyed, like four generations of women coming together to remember the past and heal. I thoroughly enjoyed Tansey. She was a hoot as well as Emer. The reader realizes that all four women have the same snippety personalit...
Review posted on my blog: http://chattygirlbookreviews.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/a-greyhound-of-a-girl-by-roddy-doyle-arc-review/*The publisher provided me with this book for review, via Netgalley.*This was such a sweet book. I really enjoyed it. It was nice to read something that wasn’t heavy or p...
"A Greyhound of a Girl" was definitely one of those stories that I think has a sweet, slice-of-life, remembrance theme to it, though I'm not sure if it didn't appeal to me as much because of the multiple perspectives it was written in, or if it was something about the structure/flow of the writing t...
A Greyhound of a Girl is the story of Mary, her mother, her grandmother and a ghost. I loved Mary - her cheeky attitude made me smile over and over again. Her mother, Scarlett was also endearing with her particularly enthusiastic way of speaking.As a ghost story, this isn't a scary or creepy book...
My main disappointment with A Greyhound of a Girl was that the story was not entirely what I expected. When initially reading the back cover, I expected something rather poignant yet cute—a story of four generations on the road together, facing a journey of discovery, forgiveness and acceptance with...
Twelve yearold Mary meets a woman named Tansyn on her way home from school. When she tellsher mother Scarlett about it she learns that her great-grandmother’s name was Tansyn,too. It occurs to Mary that her Tansyn and Scarlett’s Tansyn might be one andthe same. An impossible thought since Tansyn die...
I've read a few other Roddy Doyle books before, all meant for adults and all of the literary fiction type. A Greyhound of a Girl is almost completely different: it's meant for children, and it's more magical realism than anything else. Like all of Roddy Doyle's books, however, Greyhound is about fam...
This book was wonderful. It really captured the sadness of losing a loved one. I felt myself relating to the characters, I cried when they cried, and laughed at Mary's cheeky comments. I adored the moments between daughter and mother. The author was great at bringing about touching scenes without ma...
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