Prophet Song by Paul Lynch. This is a very well written book but geez is it bleak. Honestly I think it will age well as a record of modern war but right now it’s not exactly what I want for my recreational #reading. If you have or love children prepare to have your heart ripped out #BookerPrize #books @bookstodon
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Parnassus Presents: Douglas Stuart with Ann Patchett
Douglas Stuart in conversation with Ann Patchett about his latest novel JOHN OF JOHN: a portrait of a father’s expectations & a son’s desires set on the Isle of Harris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri1fx58WFA4
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Congratulations to Douglas Stuart, whose latest novel JOHN OF JOHN has been longlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize.
“This excavation of family, violence and shame is woven through with beautiful imagistic detail, and – unexpectedly – shades of hope. We loved the rich, textural detail of the story”
https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/john-of-john
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Finished Oathbringer by Sanderson at long last, and immediately picked up The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Stout. Not too far in yet, but it's beautifully written. Really enjoying this fairly slim book so far.
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This year's Booker Prize winner will be announced next week and this piece gives a peek into how the judges cope with reading their way through the one-hundred and sixty-three nominated books in seven months.
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RE: https://beige.party/@brian/116824170020225524
So delighted to see that #MJohnHarrison won the #BookerPrize for his brilliant novel The End of Everything. Congratulations to a writer like no other!
The Disappearers. Marlon James.
You are young and gay in Jamaica in the 80’s (so: not safe) and you and others join a theater group putting on a gay play that gets violently interrupted, which puts you all on different paths the next 20 years that trade on your invisibility to straight culture in different ways.
5 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈
CW: sex, violence
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