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  1. It's Kazuo Ishiguro's birthday today, otanjou-bi Omedetou gozaimasu http://www.ravenbooks.ie1 minute ago from web
  2. New blog post: Atonement ***SPOILER ALERT!!! If you have not read the book and/or seen the movie.... http://www.ravenbooks.ie/ra...5 minutes ago from web
  3. Speaking of movies from books, highly recommend The Men Who Stare At Goats21 minutes ago from web
  4. @urchinette Jumper looks amazing! Well done you!35 minutes ago from web in reply to urchinette
  5. "All that I know most surely about morality and the obligations of man, I owe to football." ~ Albert Camus http://www.ravenbooks.ieabout 13 hours ago from web
  6. @nyrbclassics A pleasure! Even good for non-post-apoc readers8:15 AM Nov 6th from web in reply to nyrbclassics
  7. @vintagebooks And that's "human" both in the literal and in the fallible/vulnerable sense too! No aliens/goblins/Others7:45 AM Nov 6th from web
  8. @vintagebooks alypic but also kind of medieval. Strong yet human protagonists, hard lives but survivors not victims. Beautiful prose.7:44 AM Nov 6th from web
  9. @vintagebooks Not sure if it's the kind of Fantasy you're looking for but I'm reading 'The Pesthouse' at the moment and loving it. Post-apoc7:42 AM Nov 6th from web in reply to vintagebooks
  10. RT an interesting take @RandomHouseCA Are books written by women seen as small where ones by men are "universal"? http://twurl.nl/yvh45a7:38 AM Nov 6th from web
  11. RT @davidmaybury Carnegie Nominations are up folks - including our own @sarahreesbrennan http://tinyurl.com/ykyqwbp5:57 AM Nov 6th from web
  12. New blog post: Flying for a Living Last month, a jetliner overshot its destination by 150 miles with http://www.ravenbooks.ie/ra...3:28 AM Nov 6th from web
  13. Today is the birthday of Michael Cunningham, author of "The Hours" http://www.ravenbooks.ie3:26 AM Nov 6th from web
  14. @elliefitzs was an imbalance that needed to be addressed.6:07 AM Nov 5th from web in reply to elliefitzs
  15. @elliefitzs other criteria, usually geographic, and I can't believe it's because women write worse books. I wish they didn't feel that there6:07 AM Nov 5th from web in reply to elliefitzs
  16. @elliefitzs I struggle with the Orange Prize. If it were male only I'd be outraged but I see the constant gender imbalance in prizes with...6:06 AM Nov 5th from web in reply to elliefitzs
  17. @HOHWWriter I've both The Tomten and The Tomten & the Fox in if you want to have a look at them. If you're near Blackrock that is.6:04 AM Nov 5th from web in reply to HOHWWriter
  18. @elliefitzs the shock have been if the ten they'd chosen had all been female authors?5:53 AM Nov 5th from web in reply to elliefitzs
  19. @elliefitzs Completely agree, but it does seem a bit lopsided that out of ten authors not a single one was female. How much greater would...5:53 AM Nov 5th from web in reply to elliefitzs
  20. RT @guardianbooks Fury after women writers excluded from 'books of the year' http://bit.ly/TnZrl5:35 AM Nov 5th from web