So this year looks set to be a big one. I'm teaching VCE Drama for only the second time (with a HUGE class), and I'm co-ordinating Year 8s. All this is likely to threaten my relaxation time, so I decided to 'schedule' a minimum by making it my NY Resolution to read the 2010 and 2011 Man Booker Prize Shortlists. If all goes really well, I'll also read the Cheltenham Booker Prize Shortlists, which are awarded retrospectively to books written 50 years ago. I figured, to keep me honest, that I'd blog about the books here, like a mini book club (albeit lonelier).
So here's the 2010 Shortlist, which I am already working my way through.
*Winner* The Finkler Question, by Howard Jacobsen
The Long Song, Andrea Levy
Room, Emma Donoghue
In a Strange Room, Damien Galgut
Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey
C, Tom McCarthy
And the 1960 Cheltenham Shortlist:
*Winner* To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The L-Shaped Room Lynn Reid Banks The Country Girls Edna O'Brien The Ballad of Peckham Rye Muriel Spark This Sporting Life David Storey
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Well my New Year's resolution is to be the first person to comment on a new blog. Done! Thankyou for your assistance.
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