Would to be weird to say I’m kinda obsessed with you? You’re such a warm light and you radiate such joy and positivity! Thank you for your content 😊

@katecollins2471

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Also I added wandering souls, fire rush and demon copperhead to my tbr :)

@EricKarlAnderson

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That's lovely! Thank you! 😊📚

Thank you, Eric! Your enthusiasm is contagious and your summary of each book is very helpful! Exciting times!!

@EricKarlAnderson

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Oh, Eric thank you. You are such a delight! I want to read all of them based on your presentation.

@EricKarlAnderson

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Thank you! 😊📚

There are always so many books on the list I've never heard of. I'm just happy to see _Demon Copperhead_ on it.

@EricKarlAnderson

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👍📚

Interesting list, with two themes: debuts and historical fiction. I'm really thrilled for Pod and Stone Blind.

@EricKarlAnderson

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Yes, interesting that the protagonists of both Demon Copperhead and The Marriage Portrait are naturally talented artists as well.

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@@EricKarlAnderson Oh, yes, thats true, hadn't thought of that!

I don't read a lot of literary fiction, it's not really my genre, but every once in a while i like to pick one up. I've had my eye on Stone Blind and The Marriage Portrait. I got a lot of good suggestions from this video

Thank you for showing the covers. I only buy on kindle now as its cheaper, easier to house - we own a lot of books!- and also as i get older i cant hold big books in my arthritic hands!! So yes, i love me a gorgeous book cover. Interesting list. I don’t know what to make of it yet.

Really enjoyed Memphis and Copperhead. Plenty here I would be happy to explore.

Wandering souls is amazing and very emotional. Hope you enjoy it!

@EricKarlAnderson

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Good to know! Thank you

I am rooting for homesick, not only because it is a great book, but because Jennifer Croft and charco press are great too

@EricKarlAnderson

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Yes!

You made all of these books sound great, but I’m also rooting for Demon Copperhead. ❤️

@EricKarlAnderson

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Thanks! Team Kingsolver! 😃

Great summary Eric. I have made a list of my fave few to get to; Demon Copperhead, Marriage Portrait and Black Butterflies!

@EricKarlAnderson

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Thank you! Hope you enjoy them. 📚

Oh and I ordered Trepasses too so I’m looking forward to reading that. I also want to read Demon Copperhead but I don’t have a copy yet. Yet. And I’ll probably have to buy whatever wins this and the Interntl Booker Prize as well. Now I’m going to see how many of these you’ve read & which were your favorites!

The way you describe books is honestly mesmerising, I just want to read them all! I think I’ll start with black butterflies, bandit queen, fire rush & wandering souls though. I want to read all of them for sure.

This is the first year I have already read a number of books on the list, and they are among my all time favorites. I ADORED The Bandit Queens and really hope it wins, but I am also especially eager to read Cursed Bread and The Dog of the North, which don't come out here in the US for a few weeks. This is such an interesting list and I am so excited to investigate all the titles that are new to me!!

@EricKarlAnderson

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That's great! 📚 And it's good to see so much love for The Bandit Queens following the announcement.

I've read Demon Copperhead (5*), I'm A Fan (4*). Tresspasses (3-3.5*). I'm keen on The Dog of the North as I loved the Portable Veblen by McKenzie.

My book club has decided to read Demon Copperhead. You have sold The Dog of the North to me 😂

@EricKarlAnderson

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I hope you love Kingsolver’s novel as much as I did. It’ll certainly give your book club lots to discuss!

I’m excited for The Bandit Queens, Wandering Souls, Pod and Fire Rush the most. But it looks like a really good list this year!

@EricKarlAnderson

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Your coverage is wonderful! I’ve read several of these but more will have to be added to my TBR. Thank you! What is less wonderful is that once again “women” only includes women writing within the narrow confines of literary fiction. Many of the more difficult and nuanced stories being told are by women writing scifi, fantasy, and even mystery. Where are the nominations for: Akata Woman, The Way Spring Arrives, Sea of Tranquility, The Candy House, The Final Strife, Prayer for the Crown Shy, Nettle and Bone, Siren Queen, Other Birds, Babel, and The Maid? None of the books nominated, including Demon Copperhead (which is fantastic) covers topics any more difficult, complex, or heartfelt than these books. None of the nominated books, including The Marriage Portrait, uses prose any more effectively than do these genre books. The difference is only genre. The so-called Women’s Prize is for women who write…certain kinds of books. For women writing in SFF or mystery or romance for that matter, those women are somehow less than. I have a hard time with the other big book prizes but the Women’s Prize? Shame on them. They should know better.

@EricKarlAnderson

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Thanks you! I hear your point and it'd be interesting if they nominated books in different genres. I assume this might be because publishers only submit a limited kind of book but that's probably because of what books have traditionally done well in the prize.

I'm excited about this list! I have not ready any of these yet, but several were already on my TBR. Others I had not heard of, so I'm excited to follow along.

@EricKarlAnderson

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Great! Lots to discover! 📚

I have no idea why Memphis is on there and where is A Spell of Good Things and Nightcrawling?! I think you might be right about the winner.

@katecollins2471

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Nightcrawling was the BEST book I read last year. It really blew me away.

I have read 4 of the longlist. Wandering Souls is the one I want to start with. Pod would have probably been the one I would have overlooked, but there were people mentioning how much they loved The Bees!! So it has made me rethink how quickly I will get to it. It’s a great longlist 📚❤️ Thank you for nattering about them Eric 😊

@EricKarlAnderson

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Yeah, I'm curious to see if Pod works as well as The Bees. We'll see! Looking forward to hearing what you think of Wandering Souls.

I just finished “Stone Blind” and loved it! I’ve read a few other mythic retellings and really enjoyed how the story is told from different voices.

@EricKarlAnderson

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Ah that’s great to hear!

I haven't read any of them. Most excited to read Cursed Bread and The Marriage Portrait. Only heard of 5 of the books. So 11 brand new books introduced to me, which is exciting! ☺

@EricKarlAnderson

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This is a very good and really interesting list. So glad there is no fluff this year! Three of my favorite reads of 2022 are on it (the Kennedy, the Kingsolver and the O’Farrell). I have read 7 of the 16. Not sure where to begin with the rest but I am super excited to dive in!! Best time of the year!

@EricKarlAnderson

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Yay! 😊📚

Great video! I am so suprised by this list! I loved The Water Cure so excited to try Cursed Bread

@EricKarlAnderson

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Thank you!

Love your thoughts on the longlist. I haven't read any yet but I'm most excited for Cursed Bread and Bandit Queens, though honestly I could read any of them!

I am keen for Stone Blind and The Bandit Queens. I liked The Marriage Portrait but didn’t love it; I enjoyed the start but it petered out for me. And Demon Copperhead I have not read yet, it is my most anticipated book so I am saving it because I don’t want it to be over. I want to set aside time to savour it.

I'm happy to see The Marriage Portrait and Demon Copperhead on the list and they all just sound so intriguing. Thanks for the cover and insides beauty pageant as well!

@EricKarlAnderson

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I'm surprised by a lot of these but excited to read quite a few including Cursed Bread, Demon Copperhead and Trespasses. Also, I love your jumper! It really brings out your eyes.

@EricKarlAnderson

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Thank you! It's one of my favourite jumpers but I can only wear it when it's really cold because it's so thick. 😊

Well my buddy reader and I picked a fine day to start reading Trespasses! And I did a little jig when you mentioned Elizabeth McKenzie. I loved her The Portable Veblen sooo much, and have been waiting and waiting. I could’ve sworn I just checked to see if she had published anything new yet, but obviously I didn’t check in the right place. Going to get that one into my hot little hands immediately! ❤

@EricKarlAnderson

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That's great! Hope you enjoy Trespasses as much as I did. And I'm kicking myself for not predicting McKenzie might be on the list because I'd just been to a publication preview the week before in which it was talked about.

There are 8 books on the list I’ve never heard of. Delighted to see Tresspasses on the list and Demon Copperhead. They’re the only two I’ve read. 📚🍀👋📚☘️☕️📕

@EricKarlAnderson

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2 greats! 📚

Yes, I agree: Celebrating literature featuring new voices. That's a very nice haul, Eric, and I'm glad for you not jealous (mostly bc I think that that many books would be too much of an obligation for me). Thx.

@EricKarlAnderson

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Thanks! I'm hoping to read most of them. 📚

I have 'Demon Copperhead', 'Stone Blind' and 'Trespasses' sitting next to me ready to read. Looking forward to all three, but think I'll stick to those. Thanks as ever Eric, so good to see your videos going up 😊

@EricKarlAnderson

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Hi Eric, I also agree that Kingsolver will win....I loved Marriage Portrait and Homesick and am now headed into the rest....Love your enthusiasm and I am sneaking all these in between War and Peace (my Jan/Feb read) and Brothers Karamozov (my March/April 2023 read) because I think it remains imperative to stay true to my classics and all they teach. Demon Copperhead was my Christmas week read and I wish I could go back and start it all over. Wondrous!

@EricKarlAnderson

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Good to balance the classics with the contemporary! 📚

🤯 So many books that I’ve never heard of! I just went back and looked at the predictions you and Anna made. A lot of popular books weren’t included. Good news for me on some of them. I just received I’m A Fan in the mail yesterday and ordered Cursed Bread in the middle of watching Simon’s Women’s Prize longlist video today. I have Memphis and Trespasses on hold on audiobook at the library. And I have Stone Blind and the Marriage Portrait here ready to go also. Glory feels like this year’s No One is Talking About This to me. It just won’t go away. 😉😂 I have some research to do! Not sure what else I want to read. Definitely not the full list!

@EricKarlAnderson

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You’re well prepared to start! 📚And it’s true Glory keeps popping up but I think it deserves it. 😁

Natalie Haynes' Stone Blind was riveting. Her reading of the audiobook is fabulous. (It's horrifying when people blame victims!) I stopped 1/2 way through Demon Copperhead for a sort of 'cheat-sheet' viewing of several David Copperfield films (oldies through Dev Patel) then finished and enjoyed it even more. Cursed Bread soon to be released in US :^) Thanks, Eric.

As you mentioned some of these weren’t really on my radar of those Homesick as it sounds interesting and I like Crofts translations. I also enjoyed The Portable Veblen so I will read the Dog of The North. But I’ll kept the list handy as it sometimes takes me years to get to some

Hi Eric. Read Memphis late last year and liked it enormously as a familiar story well told; the neo- Orwellian novel, Glory is on my TBR list, I am hoping to also read along with Demon Copperhead as the premise of the novel fascinates me.

@EricKarlAnderson

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Great! I'm looking forward to Memphis. And I hope you love Glory and Demon Copperhead as much as I did.

Wow! What a fabulous bunch of books!

@EricKarlAnderson

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I am going to try all 16 starting with Deamon Copperhead and the Marriage Portrait

@EricKarlAnderson

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Yay! 📚 Hope you find some new favourites.

Hi Eric! I think i'm most excited for Children of Paradise, Wandering Souls, the Marriage Portrait and The Bandit Queens

@EricKarlAnderson

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Great! Hope you enjoy them! 📚

Yay! Thank you so much for sharing!! It is so tempting to pick up some of these. I am in the midst of reading the long list for the inaugural Republic of Consciousness Prize for US and Canada (I've been so eager for them to start that prize on this side of the pond, and it is finally here!). I should have known that I would feel some FOMO for all the other great prize long lists announced this time of year. Did you get a sense that a good number of these Women's Prize long list titles are from indie presses? That's always interesting to me. I know Homesick is from Charco! Thanks again for sharing!

@EricKarlAnderson

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Oh wow, I hadn't heard they launched the prize in N America as well. Hope the reading goes well! 📚

Gosh you are quick Loved to listen to this You are a star Most of these new titles

@EricKarlAnderson

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Thank you!

Oh Eric I am so happy that Natalie Haynes new book Stone Blind has made it to the the Long list. I have read it and it is my first (and only) 5 star book this year..... and one that I am definitely going to read again!! It is beyond wonderful. If you have not read it please do !! It took my breath away, at the end of the book I just sat there and held it close to my chest and thought about it again.

@EricKarlAnderson

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That's great to hear! I'm looking forward to reading it even more now.

I was watching this while eating my dinner and I almost choked laughing with your Fluffer Nutter comment! Love seeing your thoughts. Thanks for walking us through them all.

@EricKarlAnderson

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Haha! I miss fluffernutters! 😋 I’m sure many English people watching don’t know what I was talking about. 😂

Trespasses I already had out from the library and I am really excited for it!

@EricKarlAnderson

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It’s so good!

I'm excited to get to many of these books!!

@EricKarlAnderson

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Well done! Thanks

@EricKarlAnderson

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For better or worse my TBR has only grown by one. Will look into Children of Paradise. And I still haven't gotten to DC yet.

I haven’t read that many of the books at all, but so many sound really intriguing! I’m cheering for The Marriage Portrait, love her writing!

@EricKarlAnderson

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Yes such an enticing group! 📚 O’Farrell and Kingsolver are formidably talented; it’s hard not imagine both on the shortlist.

Thanks Eric, exciting times! I had better get on and read Demon Copperhead given your hearty endorsement of it. And then I’ll try to get to as many of the other titles as possible by the time the winner is announced. As you say, this is an overall celebration of women’s writing, so I’m keen to read the whole list even if books don’t make it to the shortlist.

@EricKarlAnderson

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Great ambition! And Demon Copperhead is so worth your time!

I’ve read 3 glory i dnfed Memphis I loved and trespass I enjoyed

It's a very interesting mix of books this year. I'm looking forward to reading Demon Copper Head and the Marriage Portrait the most. I have five out of the 16 so I'll start with those first.

@EricKarlAnderson

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Great! Hope you find some new favourites. 📚

Hi Eric. I have read 6 of these - Glory, The Marriage Portrait, Demon Copperhead, Memphis, Stone Blind and Trespasses. All good. Not even going to try and read all of them. I have Pod and I loved The Bees so will start there.

@EricKarlAnderson

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Great! I'll be keen to hear what you think of Pod.

This is such a strong list!!!

@EricKarlAnderson

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Definitely! 📚

Didn’t do great on my predictions lol! But really happy for Kingsolver, O’Farrell, Kennedy and Haynes!

Thanks, Eric. I've only heard of the Maggie O'Farrel

@EricKarlAnderson

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I'm going to pick up trespasses and Memphis

Adding Fire Rush to my TBR.

@EricKarlAnderson

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I'm reading it now and it's excellent!

Great vid Eric! My reserve list is full now at the library. I intend to read a few after I finish reading The 2023 Australian Stella longlist (just picked up 7 of them today, I've read 4 and it's a brilliant longlist). Yes, Demon for the win! I've also read The Marriage Portrait and Stone Blind, sadly neither of the novels lived up to my expectations, I prefer their previous novels. I've been going to read Glory for a while, it didn't immediately grab me from the start so I'd put it down waiting to see if it was on this list. No Horse from Geraldine Brooks is a bit disappointing for me, I was hoping to include it in reading for this list. Anyways, Happy Reading!

@EricKarlAnderson

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Thank you! And that’s great. 📚 I wish more books from the Stella Prize were published in the UK.

It's an interesting longlist - I started Wandering Souls and can confirm that the writing is delightful.

@EricKarlAnderson

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Good to hear!

I loved Memphis! Excellent book!

@EricKarlAnderson

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I'm eager to get to it.

Just love your enthusiasm Eric, can''t wait to get to some of these. Demon Copperhead for the win!

@EricKarlAnderson

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Thank you! 💙

Whoa I’ve only read 1.5 of these- demon copperhead & currently reading marriage portrait. Glory’s on my nightstand TBR stack, & moved there bc of YOUR review- was the only positive one I’d heard .

@EricKarlAnderson

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Yeah I think Glory is excellent and I hope you agree.

Last year I read the longlist with mixed results-some were gems I never would have read otherwise; a few stole hours of my life that I can’t get back. Of the longlist I guessed three, have read five, think two of those excellent and one a real stinker. Of the 11 I haven’t read, I am interested in Cursed Bread and The Dog of the North. Thanks for an informative and interesting video.

@EricKarlAnderson

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Great, hope you enjoy those. 📚

Great tour of the books - thanks! What would you recommend I read if I haven’t read any? :) I’m not sure about Demon Copperhead because it’s so long and I won’t have time. Is there any others that stand out to you?

@EricKarlAnderson

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If you’re looking for shorter but really impactful I’d definitely recommend Trespasses.

@isabellabeckett-smith1473

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@@EricKarlAnderson Aww, thanks!

Goodness me what a selection. I have only read two as yet, the Haynes and O'Farrell and with both I felt they were excellent but not quite up with their best. I am keen to get to Trespasses and Demon Copperhead and hesitating over Glory, but some of these have not even registered with me until now. That might be a good thing of course. Black Butterflies immediately called to me as did Wandering Souls. I had a feeling Nightcrawling wouldn't make the cut but I did expect Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow to be there.

@EricKarlAnderson

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Ah okay, interesting. Definitely get to Demon Copperhead. And such a shame Tomorrow x3 didn't make it. 😕

Not all are out here in the US

Accent is A+

Waiting for your international booker and women's prize for fiction shortlist predictions video

@EricKarlAnderson

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I've just posted my predictions for the Women's Prize shortlist: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dWuryMdspJTcnbQ.html 😊

Of course I went straight to the expert once I heard the list was out! Can you let us know which countries are represented and how many are authors of color??

@EricKarlAnderson

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Thank you! And I'm not sure how many authors of color. There are 5 American, 7 British, 1 Canadian, 1 French, 1 Irish and Bulawayo is Zimbabwean/American.

@sandra7319.

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@@EricKarlAnderson Thanks 👏

No Australian authors, nor Eleanor Catton! I’ve read 5 of these and am most keen to read the Jennifer Croft and Sophie Mackintosh. May the games begin!

Who doesn’t like a beautiful cover and interior design? 😍

@EricKarlAnderson

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Although all I’ve not read sound interesting, I’m currently * most curious about The Pod, Bandit Queens & Stone Blind. I’d hoped Demon Copperhead would be on the list & would be hype if she won, but can’t say I think she SHOULD unless I read all of them. I can say it was in my top 3 books of the year & is an unfiltered & accurate depiction of Appalachians & their plethora of exponential & generational, cyclical plights. Corporat3 greed, environmental destruction and environmental racism, exploitation and oppression, racism and bigotry, big pharmA th3 corporat3 dru5 dealer in bed w governm3nt, broken foster care system, jail time not for crimes but for inability to pay fines, false narratives like American pie it’s my time has ppl divided who’ll never get a piece bc That pie’s been gobbled up & gone long ascribed status generations before, wealth=health, business of treating sickness not wellness, red v blue but all the corporat3 party, polluted police, sh** schools, and so on & on...... that’s America all over but mannnn she got Appalachia’s experience with it down. Plunder & ravage the land for finite resources, jobs and financial stability, black lung cancer chronic and acute adverse effects, collapsed mines, deaths, widows fatherless kids , etc.but a farce of Americans do thissss ; pride for it. Then big business sucks all that’s left and leaves. No jobs no stability no pride no options. Depression & alcoholism etc . Left w bad backs and knees and pain and mining’s upheaval and removal of earth ugly & toxic byproducts left behind . Here’s some pills for your back ...... pain clinic$ addiction death generational trauma and a stigma that criminalizes/blames the addict & an isolation bc all the rest of Amurika sees you as a hillbilly bumpkin. Blahdiggityblah that was excessive I’ll be surprised if anyone reads this whole thing but if yay if so ... or sowwie?

Probably my worst predicting year ever (2/16), but I'm excited for the new titles and in deep anticipation for the shortlist! One thing I'm really hoping for this season is that more reviewers give Glory a fairer shake than they did during Booker season. Lots of shallow and frankly racist takes that reduced it to being nothing more than "the African Animal Farm," like it had no other redeeming virtues to it. Let's see if those same people are as charitable to Barbara Kingsolver this year, since Demon Copperhead is just "the American David Copperfield," right? But I already know the answer to that.

I started reading Glory today and I am liking the writing and the theme though I didn’t like Animal Farm.

@EricKarlAnderson

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Great!

When does the shortlist cm

Does Dog of the North say SHORTLISTED for the women’s prize on the cover? Do they know already?

@EricKarlAnderson

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The author was previously shortlisted for the award. It’s not referring to this year’s prize.

If you like the idea of cinema than you might like the movie "Cinema Paradiso" in 1988.

@EricKarlAnderson

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I've seen it - great film.

@ReligionOfSacrifice

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@@EricKarlAnderson, I like the shorter version more than the longer and it is truly an epic telling of how a child loves his memory of it all, but the ending truly blew my mind away at how all those scenes were taken away from the public, but the child remembered all of them in his mind and cherished looking at them all strung together as a memento from his great boss from long ago.

You did not mention Childern of Paradise!

@EricKarlAnderson

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What do you mean? I talk about it at 7:56 into this video.

Demon Copperhead and the Marriage Portrait were automatic selections, a few books I haven't heard of. I saw you both picked Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and it's a book I loved, but I felt it would be too popular to be listed, maybe Lessons in Chemistry suffered too, even though both are very good books, especially Tomorrow. I think Kingsolver will win this.

@EricKarlAnderson

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Some really popular books have been listed in the past so I think Tomorrow x3 had a good chance but sadly didn't make it.

@Emmareads15

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@@EricKarlAnderson Sometimes it has to be the 'right' kind of author for a popular book to get on there, say Maggie O'Farrell. It's a real shame it missed it though.

I’m new to this book realm, but is this award for books published last year? Or actually for 2023? Just curious since there’s so much of the year left for books to come out!

@EricKarlAnderson

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Welcome! It’s for the past year. Eligibility is April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023

@Toritriesthings

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@@EricKarlAnderson Awesome, thank you so much! 😊

I feel really ambivalent about 'Cursed Bread'. I received both 'The Water Cure' and 'Blue Ticket' (have you read that one?) as advance copies and thought they were good, but not GREAT by a long way. I don't think I'll bother with 'Cursed Bread' to be honest.

I just noticed when you held up The Dog of the North it says “Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize”. Spoiler?

@EricKarlAnderson

Жыл бұрын

It says “shortlisted for the Women’s Prize” on Elizabeth McKenzie’s novel because she was previously shortlisted for her novel The Portable Veblen. It’s not a spoiler for this year’s award! 😅

@brooketini81

Жыл бұрын

Oh thank goodness! I was so worried 😂

@BeaconHillBooks

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Thank you for your content and coverage as always! Still fun to see your predictions!

❤🎉😊👍👏

Fire Rush is really excellent (I hope it wins) but you need a bit of knowledge of dub reggae to get the most out of the writing. The Grudova left me cold after I'd liked her short story collection. Pod depends on whether you can get on with anthropomorphism.

@EricKarlAnderson

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I'm reading Fire Rush now and I agree. So well written and powerful!

Do you think I should read David Copperfield before reading Demon Copperhead?

@EricKarlAnderson

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I didn't but a friend who did said it was really interesting to have it in mind to get all the cross references.

For whatever reason I feel like both Demon and Potrait not gonne be winner. The women prize do loves their surprise and usually the most hyped one missed out the win. Last year Great Circle and Island of Missing Tree, and Vanishing Half for 2021. I predict if Demon gonna win something, it gonna be the Pulizer.

I read I'm a Fan and really found it tiresome. I was disappointed by The Marriage Portrait. I have to start reading Kingsolver including her backlist.