Booker 101 Quick & Dirty Monday! MISINTERPRETATION: Ledia XhogaTin House : 3 September 2024 (US) (unless otherwise noted, I’m reading the US edition)Daunt Books: 6 May 2025 (UK)Page Count: 287 First line: I was fifteen minutes late and his phone number was out of service. Blurbed by: Jennifer Croft – (With the author Olga Tokarczuk,Continue reading “MISINTERPRETATION – Ledia Xhoga”
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FLESH – David Szalay
“The first daffodils arrive in a hostile world.” (162) If Camus’s The Stranger had a baby with Melville’s Bartleby, you’d get Szalay’s Istvan. Unlike Bartleby, who prefers not to, Istvan’s response is “okay.” He goes through life letting things happen to him, around him, with him. The novel opens with a bang – a 42-year-oldContinue reading “FLESH – David Szalay”
FLASHLIGHT – Susan Choi
“In one hand he holds a flashlight which is not necessary, in the other hand he holds Louisa’s hand which is also not necessary.” (3) “Up and down with their flashlights: one carries the flashlight, the other carries the gun.” (378) Susan Choi’s Flashlight (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2025) is next up in the BookerContinue reading “FLASHLIGHT – Susan Choi”
AUDITION – Katie Kitamura
“There are always two stories taking place at once, the narrative inside the play and the narrative around it, and the boundary between the two is more porous that you might think, that is both the danger and the excitement of the performance.” (38) First up in the 2025 Booker 101 is a slim sliceContinue reading “AUDITION – Katie Kitamura”
A Girl Named Tommi 