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But_i_thought_ wrote: "Paul wrote: "Naughty really though to do that - publishers etc are sworn to secrecy I think and I rarely see hints like that."Jelly Books doesn't seem to be a publisher though - more like a readi..."
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The First Woman would seem most likely (based on predictions) but yes I think that, The Great Mistake, The Island of Missing Trees,A Passage North and Interior Chinatown are all eligible (and all featured on prediction lists)And several others on the list besides are eligible, including the wonderfully named (I may be biased) Paul - essentially all the fiction.
Paul would be classic. A Passage North is very old Bookerish.
The Great Mistake was a bit too like Hollighurst IMO, but nothing wrong with that.
Interior Chinatown won National Book Award.
Sam wrote: "Paul would be classic. "Very kind of you but perhaps let's leave the personal compliments for another thread and focus on Booker predictions
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"I would be disappointed if I'm not disappointed at the booker prize long list"
Is Paul the Daisy Lafarge book - it’s not that great to be honest, not terrible but just feels like a debut novel.
The chap from JellyBooks earlier today tweeted:My friend @JezzaTrev thinks 'The Island of Missing Trees' by Elif Shafik - published by @PenguinUKBooks- and part of the
@Jellybooks #summerofreading program might be on The 2021 Booker Prize long list.
@jezzatrve is MD of Adult Division, Pan Macmillan
Although not clear if that was just him making a personal prediction or inside info
Gumble's Yard - Golden Reviewer wrote: "Is Paul the Daisy Lafarge book - it’s not that great to be honest, not terrible but just feels like a debut novel."No I am your identical twin - don't you remember. We lived together for 30 years?
That would be handy as I am currently reading that. It needs a twigger warning though as considerable parts are narrated by a tree.
Gumble's Yard - Golden Reviewer wrote: "That would be handy as I am currently reading that. It needs a twigger warning though as considerable parts are narrated by a tree."Thank you both for the comic relief! 😂
:-)Actually I don't normally get trigger warnings, but I could have done with one in The Performance. The croup A&E scene was a bit too close to home.
Oh last minute judge link. The Shafak is set on Cyprus. Trivia question - who write the last longlisted book to be set on Cyprus having of course studied there himself?
Want to swap out one book in your judges prediction list (I put in Panenka for your duplicate)?
Yes I think so. Panenka is a silly link really - the rest are all serious ones.
A twigger warning! This just made my day, thank you :D
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Cocoa for me, but I can spend the time looking up book and author IDs for the favourites
I wonder if he will open at 00:00 rather than 00:01
A Passage North, Anuk Arudpragasam (Granta Books, Granta Publications)Second Place, Rachel Cusk, (Faber)
The Promise, Damon Galgut, (Chatto & Windus, Vintage, PRH)
The Sweetness of Water, Nathan Harris (Tinder Press, Headline, Hachette Book Group)
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber)
An Island, Karen Jennings (Holland House Books)
A Town Called Solace, Mary Lawson (Chatto & Windus, Vintage, PRH)
No One is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood (Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing)
The Fortune Men, Nadifa Mohamed (Viking, Penguin General, PRH)
Bewilderment, Richard Powers (William Heinemann, PRH)
China Room, Sunjeev Sahota (Harvill Secker, Vintage, PRH)
Great Circle, Maggie Shipstead (Doubleday, Transworld Publishers, PRH)
Light Perpetual, Francis Spufford (Faber)
Gumble's Yard - Golden Reviewer wrote: "A Passage North, Anuk Arudpragasam (Granta Books, Granta Publications)Second Place, Rachel Cusk, (Faber)
The Promise, Damon Galgut, (Chatto & Windus, Vintage, PRH)
The Sweetness of Water, Nathan H..."
No Assembly .... booooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!
Check the Booker heading on Twitter
I have read 7 and started 1
I've read 4 and 3 weren't very good.No one picked Light Perpetual interestingly (probably because it is badly flawed)
Paul wrote: "No Assembly .... booooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!.."Potentially the only thing I got right
Watching KD Books taking books out of the box was extremely fun. Thanks for the link!
A Little Blog of Books wins the prediction contest with 5 books - tied with the M&G consensus prediction.The wooden spoon goes to Gumble's prediction based on the judges which scores nil point.
Bewilderment to win for me of the ones I have readI guess we should have thought that Rowan Williams would pick a book by someone who writes widely about Christianity (Spufford) - my bad.
Gumble's Yard - Golden Reviewer wrote: "I guess we should have thought that Rowan Williams would pick a book by someone who writes widely about Christianity (Spufford) - my bad."Ted Rogers strikes again
By tomorrow you will have deduced all of the books, having predicted none!!
Particular congratulations to:Ann Helen - only person to call A Town Called Solace
Paula - only person to call Fortune Men
Sam - only person to mention A Passage North
No one called Light Perpetual, The Sweetness of Water and An Island
Last two weren't on Listopia either
An Island is not even easy to buy I think
The Sweetness of Water was the Oprah book. I did not care for the prose in my sample but it may be ok for plot.
Nicole D. wrote: "An Oprah book???"The Sweetness of Water is the most recent pick of Oprah's book club. It and the Lockwood are the only two debuts on the list.
I have read 3. Ordered Bewilderment months ago -- perhaps publishing date will be moved up now but not holding my breath. Got 5 in audio with Audible credits, 1 on Kindle, and the other 3 from Amazon. I'll be putting Bewilderment in my first place slot on my predictions because I've never read a Powers' book I did not love!
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Jelly Books doesn't seem to be a publisher though - more like a reading app? Perhaps the hint is tangential and not related to the actual list of books in the link.