I have only four books to read before I can say I’ve read EVERY Tournament of Books Winner! Here’s the list of champions and here’s the link to the TOB site hosted by the Morning News.
I am listening to Wolf Hall right now and loving it. I’m about 40% in and it’s fabulous.
I think I will try to read the Ali Smith book next, then the Toni Morrison, with the last being The Sisters Brothers because it is the one that least excites me and I just finished The Ox-Bow Incident and would like something to separate these western settings.
I’m going to put these on a time table and invite any and all to join in. Call it the COBC-TOB-Super-Rooster Countdown! #SuperRoosterTOB
By November 15 – discuss Wolf Hall – the first in a series of 3 about Thomas Cromwell in the early 16th century.
By December 15 – The Accidental
Winner of the Whitbread Award for best novel and a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, The Accidental is the virtuoso new novel by the singularly gifted Ali Smith. Jonathan Safran Foer has called her writing “thrilling.” Jeanette Winterson has praised her for her “style, ideas, and punch.” Here, in a novel at once profound, playful, and exhilaratingly inventive, she transfixes us with a portrait of a family unraveled by a mysterious visitor.
By January 15 – A Mercy
A Mercy reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughter – a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.
By February 15 – The Sisters Brothers
With The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable comic tour de force. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters – losers, cheaters, and ne’er-do-wells from all stripes of life – and told by a complex and compelling narrator, it is a violent, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier that beautifully captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West, and two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love.
Who’s IN!?
COBC = Care’s Online Book Club