Archive for the ‘Booker Prize Winners’ Category
This is the final post on the Weekly Geeks Q&A from 13th June. It’s taken me about a month to ‘catch up’, and I will still have a trilogy to go. As I’m planning on re-reading His Dark Materials in August, I’ll hold off until then. Yes, I tend to procrastinate ever so often. I […]
Filed under: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Booker Prize Winners, Commonwealth Writers Prize, General Fiction, J.M. Coetzee, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Nobel Prize Winners | 4 Comments
Tags: J.M. Coetzee, South Africa
The winner of the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers in 1993, and the Best of the Booker in 2008, this book is much-acclaimed and highly recommended. The New York Times claims: The literary map of India has to be redrawn… Midnight’s Children sounds like a continent finding its voice. And, I can’t […]
Filed under: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Best Of The Booker, Booker Of Bookers, Booker Prize Winners, Books 2009, Guardian 1000, Historical Fiction, Magical Realism, Review, Salman Rushdie | 7 Comments
Tags: India, Salman Rushdie
Anne Enright – The Gathering
I’m trying to read all the Booker winners, in the next couple of years. This painstakingly dull book, filled with unengaging characters and a pointless plot adds a serious blemish to my plan at the very outset. I struggled through the first thirty pages, and struggled some more ’til I hit page 89, in a […]
Filed under: Anne Enright, Booker Prize Winners, Books 2009, General Fiction, Guardian 1000, New York Times Notable Book Of The Year, Orange Prize Longlist, Review | 8 Comments
Tags: Anne Enright, Booker Winner
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