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I got a poke in the ribs during my time away at Greenbelt from a couple of people wondering how my self imposed booker prize challenge was going.
It’s been ticking along nicely. Gently chomping my way through the books.
Then today they went and announced the shortlist.
AS Byatt – The Children’s Book
JM Coetzee – Summertime
Adam Foulds [...]
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3 reservations have come in at once.
Eeek!
Colm Toibin- Brooklyn.
James Scudamore- Heliopolis.
Ed O’Loughlin- Not untrue not unkind.
This means I can pop rereading all the Harry Potter books to one side & crack on with the challenge.
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A progress report & a challenge to you.
In my bid to read all the books on the man booker prize list I’m currently still waiting for my local library to tell me if they’re going to let me reserve all the books in one go. I’ve had an email back to my email telling me [...]
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The Man Booker Prize longlist has been announced. 13 novels.
The winner will be announced on the 6th October 2009. That gives us 70 days to read the 13 novels.
Here’s the long list:
The Children’s Book by AS Byatt
Summertime by JM Coetzee
The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds
How to paint a dead Man by Sarah Hall
The Wilderness by [...]
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