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Adventures in reading

Sample Sunday is an opportunity to check all the books on my shelves and decide what to keep

BookerTalk February 19, 2023February 19, 2023 20 Comments Booker prize, Paul Beatty, Rupert Thomson, Sample Sunday, TBR, Will Carver

Sample Sunday: from an award contender to an award winner

Moving slowly through my stack of owned-but-unread books, I’ve chosen three more candidates for Sample Sunday. They all have titles

Top Ten Tuesday

BookerTalk January 10, 2017 35 Comments Amor Towles, Frank Richards, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Han Kang, isabel costello, Joanna Cannon, Lisa McInerney, Ottessa Moshfegh, Paul Beatty, Petina Gappah

10 books that escaped 2016

10 books I meant to read in 2016 but somehow time slipped me by

Canadian authors Man Booker Prize

BookerTalk October 25, 2016September 13, 2017 10 Comments Paul Beatty

First American writer wins #ManBooker 2016: reactions

It’s taken months to get here but we know at last that the Man Booker prize for 2016 has gone for

Book Reviews Man Booker Prize

BookerTalk September 8, 2016September 8, 2016 14 Comments A.L. Kennedy, David Means, David Szalay, Deborah Levy, Elizabeth Strout, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Ian McGuire, j m coetzee, Madeleine Thien, Ottessa Moshfegh, Paul Beatty, Virginia Reeves, Wyl Menmuir

Man Booker 2016:my wishlist

There was no way I could read all 13 of the long listed titles for this year’s Man Booker Prize in

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