Your Booker videos are always particularly fun but the dog cameos are off the charts wonderful.
@BobTheBookererАй бұрын
Aha, thank you so much! There’s a regular stream of dogs I look after, so the Booker/dog combo shall continue!
@penelopegough60502 ай бұрын
I saw Chigozie Obioma speaking about the Fishermen at a writers’ festival which was just amazing. Very special. I still laugh at myself when I think that many years ago I wrote a review for my library about why David Galgut should have won the Booker for In a Strange Room. How presumptuous. Until very recently I could search and find it still on the library website. This is great Bob a wonderful project and review of some wonderful books.
@BobTheBookererАй бұрын
Ooh lovely! How was he? And yes! I’m glad he finally won it- it’s so well deserved!
@barbarahelgaker3902 ай бұрын
Books that missed out sounds like a great topic!
@BobTheBookererАй бұрын
I’d love to dive into it- there’ll be plenty of big books I’ve missed out on!
@ameliareads5892 ай бұрын
What an achievement! Congratulations! 🎉 And a very interesting list! Can't wait for more of this project to come.
@BobTheBookererАй бұрын
Thank you so much!
@jacquelinemcmenamin82042 ай бұрын
I loved The Garden of Evening Mists ❤ 10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World ❤ A Tale For The Time Being 🥰 Autumn 🍂 Elmet 🍂
@BobTheBookererАй бұрын
Yes! They’re such gems, I think!
@scallydandlingaboutthebook27112 ай бұрын
Ferocious is a great word for Harvest. That and Elmet feel bold but very English. The Garden of Evening Mists is a personal favourite. And aren't we lucky to have a writer like Ali Smith in our time?
@BobTheBookererАй бұрын
Definitely! And it’s so great that we get more new books from Ali Smith as they come out! What a wonderful writer and observer.
@GuiltyFeat2 ай бұрын
I've read 8 of these and at least three of them stand out for me. Jim Crace's Harvest is one of those quiet bits of excellence. I loved 4321 and I think it suffer from being both long and late-career. It's better than both those handicaps suggest. Finally Autumn remains a spectacular feat of modern novel writing. It is both the start of an exceptional, relevant quartet of novels and a stunning standalone.
@BobTheBookererАй бұрын
Yes! Harvest is such a deceptively powerful piece of writing! And totally agree on 4321 and Autumn!
@jacquelinemcmenamin82042 ай бұрын
Have you ever read several books by one author in a short space of time? I did this with Elizabeth Strout this month . I was trying to catch up before Tell Me Everything was published. I ended up loving the books I read to catch up more than Tell Me Everything
@BobTheBookererАй бұрын
Oh that’s fun! I’ve only done it a few times, but it’s fun to stay in their world for a bit! I did it with Edouard Louis and Annie Ernaux, and that was fun!
@anaovejero1032 ай бұрын
great selection of books! I've read many of them and now I feel the urge to re read them! Great video!
@BobTheBookererАй бұрын
Thank you so much!
@ianp90862 ай бұрын
Wonderful to hear someone rave about Ducks again - I genuinely missed the narrator of that book for days afterwards and almost started the whole thing again to be with her again. I have managed to read 6 of those and have some of the others still on the shelf so more to look forward to. I completely agree with you about Eimear McBride too. I thought Harvest was stunning - especially as I was aware of some of the background of the Enclosure Acts which forced people off the land across England and replaced them with sheep. And the climactic scene in Elmer I can still see - stunning! My vote for book that should have been listed (though we have no way of knowing if it was ever submitted) would be The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers 😉
@BobTheBookererАй бұрын
Yes! You spend so much time with that rhythm, and it’s really hypnotic! Ooh, I really want to read Gallows Pole! Thanks for the reminder to bump that one up the list!
@artstories522 ай бұрын
I first read Paul auster when 'New York trilogy' came to me to be processed, I was working in a library at the time. I took it home and just thought it was a wonderful book. And then I read, sometime later, 'Invention of Solitude'. I really like that book as well but I haven't read Auster since. Odd. I will look for this one you mentioned..
@BobTheBookererАй бұрын
Ooh, I really want to read more Auster, so thank you- I’ll look out for those!
@sarahwallace25852 ай бұрын
Great selection Bob ❤
@BobTheBookererАй бұрын
Thank you!
@TheLeniverse2 ай бұрын
Ali Smith requested not to be submitted for the prize again? Do you know why? I tried to google it, but my google fu isn't strong enough. I was a bit ambivalent about Autumn, but read the rest of the seasonal books as well, and every book added to the others. They are freestanding, but so much better as a whole. Partway through Spring I realised that I was fully converted. Ducks, Newburyport, however 😂Let's just say that I enjoyed the mountain lion content. Although I read all thousand pages (over the course of three months) and something about it clearly compelled me to keep going. But at the end I was just relieved I was finished.
@BobTheBookererАй бұрын
From what I’ve heard (I don’t know how true it is) it’s partly that being shortlisted comes with a lot of promotional tours that you have to do, and her feeling that she’s been celebrated enough, and it’s good for other authors to be introduced to an audience instead. Aha, that’s very fair about Ducks!