One of the advantages of being thrown off-schedule by localized Internet-outages (see below) is that it leaves my posting for a different point in the news cycle -- so I can already report today the 'big' news that the Man Booker Prize for Fiction Longlist 2013 announced.
Predictably enough, none of the titles are under review at the complete review (though there is a review-overview of A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki); the title I've most been looking forward to from this list is The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, and I will probably have a look at We Need New Names NoViolet Bulawayo and Harvest by Jim Crace (always assuming if and when I can get my hands on copies; I actually don't have a copy of any of these titles -- though several have also not, or not yet, been published in the US)).
As usual, I contest that the Man Booker is hard to take seriously when we don't know what the pool of books the judges made their selections from is -- but, alas, they won't reveal the 150-odd titles that were submitted/called in for consideration.
Predictably enough, none of the titles are under review at the complete review (though there is a review-overview of A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki); the title I've most been looking forward to from this list is The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, and I will probably have a look at We Need New Names NoViolet Bulawayo and Harvest by Jim Crace (always assuming if and when I can get my hands on copies; I actually don't have a copy of any of these titles -- though several have also not, or not yet, been published in the US)).
As usual, I contest that the Man Booker is hard to take seriously when we don't know what the pool of books the judges made their selections from is -- but, alas, they won't reveal the 150-odd titles that were submitted/called in for consideration.