https://killingmykindle.com/2018/02/19/episode-1-07-somebody-that-i-used-to-know/ Wherein I review: 19. J by Howard Jacobson 20. A Stainless Steel Rat is Born by Harry Harrison 21. The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted by Harry Harrison
Can you ever be just whelmed?
So this year, I’m not doing the whole Booker Prize Longlist. After last year’s epic slog and some disappointments of a very large magnitude, I approached this year’s list with a more discerning eye. I immediately discounted three of the titles, while noting with varying degrees of smuggery that I owned another two of the list and had already readone of them. A fourth title, this one, was also sitting on one of the bookshelves in the flat, but it didn’t belong to me. It […]