It is mostly about the life of her I sometimes go back and forth while reading a book, changing my star ratings as I proceed. In the meantime, here’s what makes Niall Williams so immensely talented as a writer: somehow, you trust him as an author and he makes you, the reader, trust him because the writing in this one is Along with the writing, Williams draws you in with unforgettable characters. The father is a poet of sorts, and poetry and the father's large classic fiction collection play a big role in the telling.

Good God! Sentences cascade, sweeping and twirling you along so fast you can barely breathe.Oh my god, this book makes me so angry because if you just cut out the repetitive, far too long, cloying middle 80 pages or so where he shows his hand over and over so insistently that I can't help but look at it, it's a gorgeous, gorgeous talented thing full of pain and life and love and erudition and things put just so. It moves around in time from the present to Ruth’s childhood, to her father’s and grandfather’s earlier lives, how her mother and father met, and the time she shared with her twin brother Aeney. I cannot recommend it enough. It reminds me slightly of I've not finished this book yet, but I am tempted to a mid-read review, partly because I don't want it to end.

The main character is Ruth Swain, a girl who loves to read and vows to read her father's collection of 3,958 books in order to understand him. I think I knew it about 100 pages into the 358-page novel. It will be on my Best Books I’ve Read in 2014 list as well as on my list of All Time Favorite books.A few pages further, I wasn’t sure what to make of this novel about the Swains, a poor fishing family living in Ireland. Niall Williams has created a work which is both deeply insightful, emotionally rich, evoking universal themes through a parochial lens and above all it is so beautifully written that you could imagine that each sentence might have taken a week to sculpt.While it is set in the present day the story has a classic edge and is told by the agoraphobic, ill-stricken and well-read narrator Ruth as she occupies her time in the attic of her family home trying to paint a literary picture of her father. Find historical weather by searching for a city, zip code, or airport code. the one saving grace about this book is its language and the style in which it is written. Published I copied many passages, but I think this is a book I'm going to have to own. I read his last work, This is Happiness, about 3 months ago and gave that 5 stars (my first introduction to Niall Williams) and I marveled at his writing style and was writing down passages in the book that werThis to me is a 5-star book.

Start by marking “History of the Rain” as Want to Read:

I contemplated leaving this book unfinished, but decided to stick it out.

I'm jealous of you. A rambling, soft-hearted Irish family saga stuffed with eccentricity, literature, anecdotes, mythology, humor and heartbreak, from the author of Four Letters of Love (1997). Be kind, he admonishes the reader directly at one point, and it’s a testament to this bighearted novel that I felt duly chastened, almost like a member of the clan.The narrator of Niall Williams’s novel tells tales of his grandparents’ village in County Clare. Well, this one is. I loved the watery theme, the rain , the rivers, the salmon, even the mud and the floods. by Bloomsbury Publishing Here is a blend of history, anthropology and politics.” It's not so much driven by plot although the plot matters...it's more driven by setting, by language and by the utterly gorgeous sentences. It is impossible for anyone who loves books not to fall in love with her and her quest to understand her dead father through the books he read and collected. He later worked as a copywriter for Avon Books in New York City before leaving America with Chris in 1985 to attempt to make a life as a writer in Ireland. I loved the watery theme, the rain , the rivers, the salmon, even the mud and the floods. One of Paul McCartney’s most poignant songs, in my view, is the heartrending “Too Much Rain.” Along with her family and other townsfolk, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Butler Yeats, amongst others, are part of the major cast of characters. Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver. In most cases, the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. I found Ruth to be an endearing heroine and loved all the other main characters as well. If I could give any advice, it would be to skip most of Part Two. Reading it is like being awash in flood rapids. "— Include a date for which you would like to see weather history.

Bedridden bookworm, Ruth Swain, spins a story focused on the paternal genealogy of her family aided by the insights from the inhabitants of her rural Irish village and some famous literary characters.I am not surprised that this book made the long list for the ManBooker 2014. Must it be SO depressing? Almost two years ago.These words are from writer 'Niall Williams' of the book 'History of the Rain'. Ruth is sickly with a "blood disease" and spends her days in an attic room with skyliThis is the most achingly beautiful book I have ever read. [ If I was forced to use only one word to describe this novel, it would definitely be "Irish." SPOILER ALERT! This book is about a … There were times I was caught unawares by Ruthie’s sardonic wit and laughed out loud.I would give that six stars if I could. Ruth is sickly with a "blood disease" and spends her days in an attic room with skylights over which rain falls. A novel of beauty and grace, showing again that Niall Williams is more than a writer, he is a composer who elicits music from the magical combination of letters we know as words.

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