Carnegie award longlist
As a slight diversion from the shock of finding 86 (yes eighty-six) books have been nominated in the SF&F section for the Cybils, I've just been looking at the Carnegie longlist, which is a mere 38 books long (lucky judges ! I think I'll volunteer for the Cybils Judging Committee next year, especially as I'll be writing a non-fiction book of my own this time next year and won't have time to read an extra 86 books !) I was pleased to discover I've read, or am about to read, seven of the Carnegie award longlist:
BUCKLEY-ARCHER, Linda Gideon the Cutpurse
COOPER, Susan Victory
DUNMORE, Helen The Tide Knot
GOLDING, Julia The Secret of the Sirens
SEDGWICK, Marcus My Swordhand is Singing
WEBB, Catherine The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle
WINTERSON, Jeanette Tanglewreck
The trouble is, I want at least three of those to win - and probably four once I've read Marcus Sedgwick's My Swordhand is Singing, given how much I enjoyed everything else he's written so far !
4 comments:
It's an interesting collection! I haven't read the Winterson yet, though I should, as I wrote my PhD dissertation on her and love at least her earlier work. I also want to read the Helen Dunmore.
By the way, my copy of the JRR Tolkein Encyclopedia arrived yesterday (I treated myself). Nice to see your name among the contributors! Which article did you write?
The Winterson was a "Write Away" review book, so I more or less had to read it ! It was more enjoyable than I'd anticipated !
Ooh lucky you - I can't afford to buy the JRRT Encyclopaedia... :-( I wrote two pieces - the short one on the White Horse of Uffington/Wayland Smith, and then the mighty piece on Tolkien in Oxford !
It was rather expensive. They should send you a free copy, as a contributor! But I gather from reading the general editor's blog that there were only 800 copies printed. I got the last one on Amazon.ca and feel very chuffed, but it was an indulgence. It's my Christmas present to myself :)
Well you had to contribute more than I did to get a copy - but then, I did get paid for my pieces - I could have kept some of that money to buy a copy, but alas!, I blew it on food and paying urgent bills ! ;-D
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