http://www.lexferenda.com/22082007/the-booker-prize/ daithí mac síthigh, university of east anglia, norwich, england Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:49:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.lexferenda.com/22082007/the-booker-prize/comment-page-1/#comment-5401 Rhymes With Porridge » Blog Archive » Booker Longlist 2008 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:58:50 +0000 http://www.lexferenda.com/22082007/the-booker-prize/#comment-5401 [...] Last year, I read about half of the longlist for the Booker Prize - with the other half being read by the artist known as Sharona. Having managed to read most of the books that didn’t make it to the shortlist, I did find it an enjoyable experience (the discipline of reading outside of the normal demarcation lines was quite fulfilling), and am doing the same this year, co-ordinated again with my fellow blogger. (The Guardian Books Blog does a similar enterprise, though we thought of it first - though they also judge the books by their covers, which is great fun). This year’s longlist (the Booker Dozen) is here, and last year’s posts over at Lex Ferenda include this. [...] [...] Last year, I read about half of the longlist for the Booker Prize – with the other half being read by the artist known as Sharona. Having managed to read most of the books that didn’t make it to the shortlist, I did find it an enjoyable experience (the discipline of reading outside of the normal demarcation lines was quite fulfilling), and am doing the same this year, co-ordinated again with my fellow blogger. (The Guardian Books Blog does a similar enterprise, though we thought of it first – though they also judge the books by their covers, which is great fun). This year’s longlist (the Booker Dozen) is here, and last year’s posts over at Lex Ferenda include this. [...]

]]> http://www.lexferenda.com/22082007/the-booker-prize/comment-page-1/#comment-4150 Lex Ferenda » Multimedia consolations Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:44:26 +0000 http://www.lexferenda.com/22082007/the-booker-prize/#comment-4150 [...] year, I wrote about a novel called Consolation (by Michael Redhill) which was longlisted for the Booker Prize; it never made it to the shortlist, [...] [...] year, I wrote about a novel called Consolation (by Michael Redhill) which was longlisted for the Booker Prize; it never made it to the shortlist, [...]

]]> http://www.lexferenda.com/22082007/the-booker-prize/comment-page-1/#comment-1701 It’s raining Bookers… « sharona’s shambles Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:47:04 +0000 http://www.lexferenda.com/22082007/the-booker-prize/#comment-1701 [...] raining Bookers… August 28th, 2007 — sharona Last week, Daithí mentioned our joint Booker-prize-project.  I’ve finally finished the first of my books - Tan [...] [...] raining Bookers… August 28th, 2007 — sharona Last week, Daithí mentioned our joint Booker-prize-project.  I’ve finally finished the first of my books – Tan [...]

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