Reading the Booker prize longlist #8 – Lucy Ellman, Ducks, Newburyport book review

The fact that…this book is so overwhelmingly long and I couldn’t bring myself to finish it.

Reading the Booker longlist #7 – Booker Prize winner predictions

Reading the Booker Longlist #1 – Review of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World

‘She had never told her friends this, not in so many words, but they were her safety net. Every time she stumbled or keeled over, they were there for her, supporting her or softening the impact of the fall…on days when she wallowed in self-pity, her chest cracking open, they would gently pull her up and breathe life into her lungs’

I’m reading the Man Booker longlist…

Hey guys and happy Sunday! Today I wanted to share with you the start of my new series: Reading the Man Booker. Just like I did with the Women’s Prize for Fiction, I will be reading the entire longlist for the Man Booker and posting regular reviews, predictions and updates. In case some of you haven’t seen, the longlist was posted last week and I swiftly started ordering the books so I can crack on straight away.

Sally Rooney – Normal People book review

Reading the Women’s Prize for fiction