Ok, here is the list. Of the 7 I have read so far, I would LOVE for Ben Winters to win this tournament.
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https://themorningnews.org/article/the-2020-tournament-of-books-shortlist-and-ju...
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Ok, here is the list. Of the 7 I have read so far, I would LOVE for Ben Winters to win this tournament.
#Tob2020
#TheRooster
https://themorningnews.org/article/the-2020-tournament-of-books-shortlist-and-ju...
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Congrats to Susan Choi this year‘s winner of the National Book Award for fiction 🎊
And congrats to Sarah M. Broom; 2019 #NationalBookAward NF winner 🎉
I think I just found my #pop20 #BookThatWonAnAwardIn2019
I feel the brackets are due any minute now. Bring it #TOB2019 #TournamentOfBooks #TheRooster
So, the 2019 Tournament of Books short list just came out - early. I‘m still processing, but I have read only two of these: There There and Census. Almost all of my long list reading was for naught.
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Well I‘ve got some reading to do! I‘ve read 9 and own 19 more. My favorites so far are Florida and Severance. Love the #tob #tob2019 #therooster
The Morning News released the long list for the 2019 Tournament of Books today! The field has been narrowed 76 books, which will further be narrowed to the final 16. I‘m still working through the list. I‘ve read a handful at least! #tob #therooster #tob2019
The Rooster Summer Reading Challenge is here again. I loved this challenge last year and am tempted to participate again. It will be a lot of reading though as I read only the tagged book so far. We‘ll see. In June they‘ll br reading An American Marriage and Tomb Song. For the reading scheme, see https://themorningnews.org/article/welcome-to-the-2018-rooster-summer-reading-ch...
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Something about this cover said jazz, cocktails, and mysterious woman in dimly lit club. I knew there was an extra-marital affair between a water-colourist and an older married man so I was getting ready for some good doomed love affair reading. However, most characters seemed terribly thin and their motivations hard to parse.
Probably the weakest of the books I have read for this years Tournament of Books but at least it was short !
This book tackles some heavy situations and emotional trauma is rife. Whether these situations were avoidable was a big question for me for most of the book. By the end, I stopped judging by my own standards and was engaged in the characters as the author intended them to be read. Trigger warnings below in spoiler.
Image credit, The Morning News
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The Tournament of Books team have really out-done themselves this year with a fine selection of shortlisted books and now a -dream come true- early release of the brackets this week! OMG!
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