r/books discussion

Hi everyone

Sorry for the lack of updates from last month, I got very busy with prac!

We are currently voting for our July books of the month!

In June our BOTM has been At Swim-Two-Birds, another comic Irish novel with a main character writing stories full of characters that rebel against him.

Over June, July and August we are reading Ulysses! Here is the schedule, it has been a very interesting book so far! But with some help along the way it has been fun :)

Happy reading!

Cool. I have never read At Swim or Ulysses and have wanted to tackle both so I may be behind schedule, but will definitely read them!

We are voting for next month's books if you want to submit something and get ahead of the game!

At Swim-Two-Birds is a little confusing when the characters start to rebel. The story jumps all over the place. But it's really funny and well-written, although the humour is mostly crude bum jokes.

Ulysses is the same with its humour except it's even more confusing with stream of consciousness. There are a few people re-reading it though so there's some useful discussion on each chapter making it easier to get through.