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Thursday, September 14, 2006

# Posted 12:04 PM by Patrick Belton  

BOOK 'EM: The Booker Short List for this year has been released. If you see your name below, you may win a very tidy sum of money, and a rather nice accolade ensuring you enough dinner invitations that you can bin the refrigerator.

*Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss (Hamish Hamilton) (reviews in NYT, NPR, Globe)
*Kate Grenville's The Secret River (Canongate) (Observer, Guardian)
*M.J. Hyland's Carry Me Down (Canongate) (Guardian, Indy)
*Hisham Matar's In the Country of Men (Viking) (New Statesman, Sunday Times, FT)
*Edward St Aubyn's Mother's Milk (Picador) (Indy, Guardian)
*Sarah Waters's The Night Watch (Virago) (Guardian, Salon)

For my sins, I've not read any. Which I feel quite sheepish about. (Helpful note to any cobloggers who may happen to be Australian: referring to oneself as sheepish does not necessarily constitute a come-on. Bovine however may be a different matter.) I'd be curious if any of our readers may have done, though, and would very much like to hear your thoughts if you have.
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Comments:
Just stay away from "ovine." On the other hand, http://www.shumavon.net/blog/2005/03/l-lupine-for-lists-like-this.html should cover quite a range of ill-advised hookups.
 
I wouldn't want anyone to carry me down the secret river in the country of men. Should this happen, the inheritance of loss would be probably occur on the night watch.
 
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