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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My 2024 Booker Prize Longlist Rankings
The 2024 Booker Prize winner will be announced Tuesday, and this is the first year I have read the entire longlist prior to the announcement. (I will not meet my Goodreads goal, so this is my reading accomplishment of the year!) If you’ve followed me, you know I had some predictions prior to the announcementContinue reading “My 2024 Booker Prize Longlist Rankings”
CREATION LAKE – Rachel Kushner
“The French might have better novels (Balzac, Zola, and Flaubert) and they have better cheese (Comte, Roquefort, Cabecou). But in the grand scheme that’s basically nothing.” “Bad people are honored, and good ones are punished. The reverse is also true. Good people are honored, and bad people are punished, and some will call this grace,Continue reading “CREATION LAKE – Rachel Kushner”
WANDERING STARS – Tommy Orange
“I wasn’t trying to be funny. I could have done it if you hadn’t come. We’ve just been the feather. We used to be the whole bird. We used to believe and we were the whole bird.” Next up on my Booker journey is Tommy Orange’s Wandering Stars (Knopf 2024). Wandering Stars is a bookendContinue reading “WANDERING STARS – Tommy Orange”
THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY – Claire Messud
“This strange eventful history that made a life. Not good orbad – rather both good and bad – but that was not the point. Above all, theyhad been, for so long, wildly curious. Just to see, to experience all thatcould deny, to set foot anywhere, to speak to anyone, taste anything, to learn,to know.” IContinue reading “THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY – Claire Messud”
ORBITAL – Samantha Harvey
“Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters.” “There’s a lingering sense of an unfinished dream, something wild in his thoughts.” The Booker train is certainly off to a roaring start, and I think this may be the first year I complete the longlist before the winner isContinue reading “ORBITAL – Samantha Harvey”
PROPHET SONG – Paul Lynch
“Something solid has begun to come loose, it is her heart sliding like gravel.” In what has been a rather lackluster Booker longlist, I find myself a bit surprised at Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song (Atlantic Monthly Press 2023). It’s a novel that tastes like something you’ve read before, only a little more pretentious, and oneContinue reading “PROPHET SONG – Paul Lynch”
ALL THE LITTLE BIRD-HEARTS – Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
“I would not have knowingly allowed even the image of a bird into my home, however beautiful. But I lived for and loved a bird-heart that summer; I only knew it afterwards.” Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow’s All the Little Bird-Hearts (Algonquin Books 2023), my tenth read of the 2023 Booker longlist, is a peculiar and unsettling read. Continue reading “ALL THE LITTLE BIRD-HEARTS – Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow”
HOW TO BUILD A BOAT – Elaine Feeney
“Cross imaginary boundaries, let go throw paint, sing cut a tree and empty it out, plant again find something hard but delicate, watch spaces for tension, be near it, but not in it, think. Design, redesign, build from what you have, you have so much already.” My thoughts on this year’s Booker longlist aren’t reallyContinue reading “HOW TO BUILD A BOAT – Elaine Feeney”
2023 Booker Prize Longlist Predictions
Booker season is officially upon us. With the longlist being announced on 8/1, I decided to try my hand at predicting this year’s possible selections. As a reminder, eligible books were published in the UK and Ireland between October 1, 2022 and September 30, 2023. After reviewing eligible books and information about the panel ofContinue reading “2023 Booker Prize Longlist Predictions”
A Girl Named Tommi 