2018 Man Booker Prize: Milkman by Anna Burns

Yesterday the 2018 Man Booker Prize was awarded to Anna Burns for Milkman. Short listed were:

• Washington Black - Esi Edugyan
• Everything Under - Daisy Johnson
• The Mars Room - Rachel Kushner
• The Overstory - Richard Powers
• The Long Take - Robin Robertson

and

• Snap - Belinda Bauer
• Sabrina - Nick Drnaso
• In Our Mad And Furious City - Guy Gunaratne
• The Water Cure - Sophie Mackintosh
• Warlight - Michael Ondaatje
• Normal People - Sally Rooney
• From A Low And Quiet Sea - Donal Ryan

fills out the long list.Edited by Chiroptera, : Put in the "official" synopsis. Also, a typo.Edited by Chiroptera, : No reason given.

None on this list. These books have been published within the last year, and my stack of books-to-be-read is so high that I had to stop acquiring books until I make some headway in reading them.I have read something by Richard Powers in the past.The last Man Booker winner that I've read is Marlon James' A Brief History of Seven Killings. A very good book, but very grim and dark without a single ray of sunshine in the whole thing.A friend tells me that The Sellout by Paul Beatty was the funniest thing he's read.

Heh. That's a bit different than the way I operate. Once I start a book I will almost always finish it, no matter how bad it is. (There's only two books I can remember that I never could finish.)My problem is that even when I make a significant dent in the stack of not-yet-read books I have, I seem to suddenly go into a buying binge and get a whole bunch more.I get worried sometimes that my cats will knock over my stack of books and I'll end up crushed under a mountain of literature.

I usually have two books going on at the same time: a fiction book and a nonfiction book.- Probably. My fiction seems to lean heavily toward science fiction and fantasy, although I do delve into the high falutin' Man Bookerish literature on occasion.My nonfiction seems to be heavy on history, especially early US history.-Have you heard of Project Gutenberg? Their goal is to try to collect everything in English that's in the public domain. As a result, they don't have much in the way of recent literature, but most of the classics you or I would have heard of seem to be there.Since you mentioned having a Kindle, you can download the mobi version onto your computer and side load it into your Kindle if you know how to do that. Or you can read the HTML version with your browser without downloading anything.