Then I think I will see what takes my whimish moods, which is the best way to read anything full stop. I am super duper keen to read Washington Black, Everything Under, Snap and Milkman for definite. That said I am about to start The Mars Room as a buddy read with my pal Mercedes. Am I going to read the whole longlist? Not intentionally, no. Yet at the same time I love the fact that the list has so many women on it, there is some younger and lesser known talent and with a crime novel and a graphic novel a slight feel of excitement and change. It is by no means the perfect list, but when are they? I would have liked some more books from other commonwealth areas like Africa, India and Australia etc.
Secondly, I think this is a really fresh (and much needed) list. What do I think of the list? Well firstly I was shocked that I had read one ( The Water Cure, review coming in due course) and had all of them on my shelves with the exception of Warlight, The Long Take and Sabrina, the latter of which I have already bought and rectified.
Over the last few years however the love has waned somewhat. When I first started reading again in my twenties (after the six years where I didn’t pick up a book, imagine) the Booker was a signpost for me of some great reads that I should really head to. It has seemed strange in the last few years that I haven’t done a ‘guessing the longlist’ post or video, as since I started Savidge Reads in any form I have always followed the prize and then the Man Booker International Prize. So the Man Booker Prize 2018 longlist has been announced.
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