Booker Prize 2021 shortlist
Anuk Arudpragasam - A Passage North Damon Galgut - The Promise Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This Nadifa Mohamed - The Fortune Men Richard Powers - Bewilderment Maggie Shipstead - Great Circle The 2021 winner will be announced on Wed-3-Nov-2...
Richard Powers won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "The Overstory"
"Bewilderment", Powers upcoming novel, scheduled to be published on 21-Sep-2021, has received some good reviews and might be worth a look-see. Casey .
Great reads ahead
I will try to find these books to read. I like to read a lot about this beautiful and complex life and world we live in. What are your favourite books of all time?
"Six Four" by Hideo Yokoyama
but really the list of favorites is way too long anything written by Annie Proulx "War & Peace" "A Bright Shining Lie..." by Neil Sheehan the "Rebus" books by Ian Rankin (there are 21 books in the series) the Aubrey–Maturin series (21 books) by Patrick O'...
More on "Six Four"... and why it might be on my short list for best novels
The Japanese calendar takes is definition from the reigning emperor... for example Showa 64 was the 64th year of Emperor Hirohito and was only one week long (1~7-Jan-1989) followed by Heisei 1 (Emperor Akihito) which started on January 8-Jan-1989 ... Japa...
