Well, Wolf Hall was only the second Man Booker Prize winning novel to be read in the year 2013. What can I say, I've been slacking.
I talk a lot about these award winning novels, post to my Facebook account the longlist announcements (ya, nerd) and keep up with the whole process as best I can via the news feeds at www.themanbookerprize.com! I personally find the whole thing super exciting!
It's not that I assume that the books that win this, the Orange Prize, or the Pulitzer Prize are legitimately going to be my favorite new releases. It's just that working my way through the award winners of these prizes has introduced me to authors, topics, and themes that I may not have experienced without the guidance these lists supplied me with.
So, where in the scope of the Man Booker list is this blogger? Well, let's see!
So, out of forty four years of awards... I've read thirteen. Yikes. Curse that tie in 1974!! I've got some work to do! That's the glorious thing about this plan of mine, though. I've got a lifetime of both global and homegrown literary treasures to go to. Have you subjected yourself to any awesome book challenges?
Also, has anyone read any of the novels selected for the Man Booker's 2013 longlist? Check out my review of one of the selections, A Tale For the Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki! Is it a coincidence, or some literary foresight yours truly is privy to? Yah... let's not get delusional!
**Thanks to Wikipedia for this absurdly informative chart. Anyone else notice that there are no winners from a South American nation, nor any from countries on the Asian continent, except India?
I talk a lot about these award winning novels, post to my Facebook account the longlist announcements (ya, nerd) and keep up with the whole process as best I can via the news feeds at www.themanbookerprize.com! I personally find the whole thing super exciting!
It's not that I assume that the books that win this, the Orange Prize, or the Pulitzer Prize are legitimately going to be my favorite new releases. It's just that working my way through the award winners of these prizes has introduced me to authors, topics, and themes that I may not have experienced without the guidance these lists supplied me with.
So, where in the scope of the Man Booker list is this blogger? Well, let's see!
So, out of forty four years of awards... I've read thirteen. Yikes. Curse that tie in 1974!! I've got some work to do! That's the glorious thing about this plan of mine, though. I've got a lifetime of both global and homegrown literary treasures to go to. Have you subjected yourself to any awesome book challenges?
Also, has anyone read any of the novels selected for the Man Booker's 2013 longlist? Check out my review of one of the selections, A Tale For the Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki! Is it a coincidence, or some literary foresight yours truly is privy to? Yah... let's not get delusional!
**Thanks to Wikipedia for this absurdly informative chart. Anyone else notice that there are no winners from a South American nation, nor any from countries on the Asian continent, except India?
