Yay! The shortlist for the Man Booker prize 2012 was announced early last week. I am so excited to be able to have time to read through them and to really enjoy them. All the entries can be found here:http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/2012-shortlist-announced and there is a variety of genre's, authors and nationalities which is just fantastic to see. As a literature graduate, i'm ashamed to say that i've barely read anything from other cultures. Though saying that i did do a 'postcolonial' module which was interesting enough but didn't hold my attention. Not sure if it was because it focused too much on the negative elements of people's writings rather than writing as an expression of the self. But anyway, the winner is announced in October so i doubt that i will have time to read and review all of them in between trying to get a 'real' job and whatnot but i am certainly willing to try. I've made a note of it and will pop into a bookshop to have a look.
Oh as a side note, if you're interested in just any random musings check out the bbc podcasts 'a point of view' narrated usually by John Gray. Its really quite interesting, its only 10 minutes and comes out every friday. I discovered this when researching for my dissertation, he just happened to discuss Cormac McCarthy's 'Blood Meridian' in connection to Hobbes and Locke about violence. So if you have a few minutes to spare, give it a listen as it is an informative piece and quite enlightening. :)
Take care
Stacey xxxx
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