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Recently finished:
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch - very strange but hilarious in places. It won the Booker Prize but lots of reviews are very po-faced about supposed shortcomings which I think are actually them taking far too seriously a book that Murdoch clearly had a great time writing. The narrator is a hoot.
Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin - this had been highly recommended to me but I didn't think it was all that. It was quite an interesting concept but felt a bit like a good idea for a short story that had been fleshed out quite quickly.
The Commitments by Roddy Doyle - loved it. It is in a bigger volume of the Barrytown Trilogy and I'm looking forward to the next couple when I'm done reading this: