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Nalbuque
Girl, Woman, Other | Bernardine Evaristo
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Pickpick

This work was gorgeous and gave me A L L the feels. Some parts were more relatable than others, but the whole thing was just so... real? This was a refreshing read, altho heavy at times. #BookerPrize2019 #BlackAuthors #Feminism #LGBTQ #2021

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Redheadrambles
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Mehso-so

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My final book to read from this years Booker longlist and there might have been a reason I held off for so long. I must have intuited Levy was not for me. In actual fact I liked the writing but I found the entire thing very “meh” as a whole as well as needlessly obtuse. It is quite an emotionally “cold” book but luckily it is short !

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Redheadrambles
The Nickel Boys: A Novel | Colson Whitehead
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I think this has to be my most productive reading month - I couldn‘t even fit in the 10th book. Admittedly some of these are novella sized. Tough to call to decide “Book of the Month “ but I am going with Colson !
#Readharder2019 22/24 😊😊
#Bookerprize2019 12/13

Which means I am so close to being free of my 2019 reading ‘commitments‘

Redwritinghood A great month of reading! 👍🏻 5y
ClairesReads Trudie what an epic month! Yay! 5y
Redheadrambles Thanks team - I did seem to burn through more than my normal 5y
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Redheadrambles
Girl, Woman, Other | Bernardine Evaristo
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Pickpick

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I thought this one would make a fantastic addition to a Brit Lit course which also included A. Levy's Small Island and Z. Smith's White Teeth. Together they tell a rich story of Britain and its colonial past. The 12 voices of here cover many circles on the intersectional Venn diagram. Radical feminism sits alongside classism and the gender identity politics of a younger generation.
It is a vertiginous undertaking which mostly succeeds.

ClairesReads An excellent review- yours always impress me 5y
Redheadrambles @ClairesReads thanks! sometimes they come easy when I really like a book ( or really hate it ;) ) 5y
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ephemeralwaltz
Girl, Woman, Other | Bernardine Evaristo
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Well, well, well! Congratulations to the winners. And congratulations especially to Evaristo for being the first black woman to be awarded the prize. I'm surprised that they broke the rules set 30+ years ago to not have any more joint prizes....
I'm really looking forward to reading Evaristo's work but did Atwood really deserve it this time? I haven't read The Testaments but I'm skeptical... Something smells fishy.
#BookerPrize2019

JacqMac I don‘t think she did. This surprised me. 5y
ephemeralwaltz @JacqMac she didn't seem like a clear winner this year. Why they would decide to announce a joint prize just baffles me. 5y
Reviewsbylola I‘m skeptical too! 5y
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Reviewsbylola Then again, I haven‘t read either one. 5y
Kalalalatja I have read the Atwood, and while I enjoyed it, it didn‘t deserve to win 5y
BarbaraBB I am VERY skeptical too. Like @Reviewsbylola I haven‘t read them but it feels like a set up from the beginning - the nomination of a not-yet-published book and all the buzz around it. 5y
Cinfhen Disappointed that Atwood won. Evaristo deserved to be the sole winner 5y
ephemeralwaltz Absolutely, I've been reading more about this and a lot of ex-Booker judges have commented on how much of a fail this year was. Why demerit Evaristo's work by splitting the prize with a (less-deserving, from what I've read/heard) novel that has sold enough copies on it's own after 30 years of picking just one winner? I'm very disappointed. 5y
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Redheadrambles
The Testaments | Margaret Atwood
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Pickpick

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For the most part I really enjoyed this, I have always loved Atwood and she hardly ever lets me down. However, I would have to say the last third of this seemed a tiny bit rushed ? It‘s a shame because even though I was one who doubted the need for a Handmaids Tale sequel, in the end I was won over by how she approached this. I just wish the ending was as solid as the start.

Cinfhen Stunning photo and great review. I‘m finding the middle section to be a little bogged down and the writing a little juvenile 😬😬😬 (edited) 5y
Cinfhen That‘s not to say I‘m not enjoying the book; I was just expecting something of a higher caliber (edited) 5y
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Redheadrambles @Cinfhen Yes, I think that‘s a fair analysis. I still found it quite propulsive for the most part but the very end was quite convenient? It‘s easy to think it is YA I guess because the protagonists are younger women. I am not sure she differentiated the voices enough? 5y
Redheadrambles @Cinfhen pretty sure it‘s not going to be considered her best work unfortunately:( 5y
Cinfhen I haven‘t gotten to the end yet, but I definitely think her younger voices are the weaker points of this book. 5y
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Redheadrambles
Quichotte | Salman Rushdie
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Pickpick

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My first experience with Rushdie and I was quite taken by this one. It‘s a crazy, sprawling meta-fictional ride with a little sci-fi / absurdist bent. It does traverse a porous line between fiction and reality, there are Mastodons as a kind of social metaphor, alongside stinging indictments of aspects of modern day America, Britain and India. This novel has such breadth and yet remaIns funny, propulsive and grandly risky. Loved it !

Cathythoughts Great review! Stacked 5y
Emilymdxn I loved this too! 5y
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ClairesReads I‘ve got this lined up too- buoyed by this great review 5y
Nute Fantastic review! 5y
andrew61 Great review, im halfway through and if I'd have applied the 50 page test id have abandoned it but as I have persevered it is becoming really absorbing. 5y
Redheadrambles @andrew61 great 👍🏻 I hope you ended up liking it in the end @Nute thanks 🙏🏻 5y
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Kalalalatja
An Orchestra of Minorities | Chigozie Obioma
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Panpan

“But I must render it all in as much detail as I can” - oh, how I wish you wouldn‘t. This was too long, with too many digressions which took me out of a story I had trouble enough following. Obioma‘s writing is beautiful, but it wasn‘t enough to save the experience for me. It is a shame, because I loved The Fishermen

#BookerPrize2019

JennyM 🤣🤣🤣 love your review! 5y
Cathythoughts Yes. Great review 👍🏻♥️. I am a fan of the book though .. loved it 5y
Hooked_on_books I had a similar response. I‘m beginning to think I should avoid the books on the Booker list. 5y
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TrishB Interesting 👍🏻 I have but not yet reads 5y
TrishB @Hooked_on_books I usually think like that too! 5y
AnneCecilie I had some issues with “The Fisherman”, so then I‘ll stay away from this. At least for now. (edited) 5y
emilyhaldi I got this from the library and returned it after reading just a few pages... glad I did 😅 5y
Kalalalatja @JennyM @Cathythoughts @AnneCecilie @BarbaraBB @emilyhaldi to be fair, I don‘t think this was the right time for me to read it, but bad timing can‘t explain it all 🙄 @Hooked_on_books @TrishB they are always hit or miss for me. Currently reading Ducks, Newburyport from the shortlist, and I‘m not sure what I feel about the 1000 pages long one sentence thing. 5y
Hooked_on_books You‘re so ambitious to tackle Ducks. As soon as I heard about the structure I said no way! 5y
Redheadrambles Yep, this one was a trial and no mistake! 5y
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Kalalalatja
Quichotte | Salman Rushdie
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Pickpick

This was a lot better than I expected! I have only read one Rushdie before, which I didn‘t love, so I had prepared myself for “meh”, but I ended closer to “yeah”.

It was weird and funny, with an abundance of current topics told through a story within a story - the opioid crisis, racism, politics, tv and film, and so much more.

It‘s a lot, I know. But unexpectedly well done. #BookerPrize2019

Caroline2 I‘m intrigued by this one. Stacked! 👍 5y
Leftcoastzen I am very tempted, so many books released in the fall!Had to grab The Testaments on Tuesday, Rushdie stacked right next to it. 5y
BarbaraBB Sounds encouraging! I‘ve loved rushdie in the past but somehow I fell out of love! 5y
Simona I don‘t like his writing style, but somehow I liked this one too 🤔 5y
Kalalalatja @Caroline2 @BarbaraBB @Simona something was just different about this one (based on one prior experience 😅). I think the humour helped a bit! @Leftcoastzen I know! This Fall is an abundance of great new books! 5y
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