Posts tagged ‘books’

Sep 11

2025 Booker Longlist: Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga

Next up for our panel is the second of two debut novels that made the list this year. Four of our panelists read this book. So what did our panel think of the book?

Sep 8

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2025 Booker Longlist: Endling by Maria Reva

Book number seven for our panel is one of the few debut novels that made the list this year. So what did our panel think of the book?

Sep 5

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2025 Booker Longlist: Universality by Natasha Brown

Next up for our panel is Natasha Brown’s Universality. Four of our panelists read the book, our fifth panelist attempted and abandoned it.

Sep 3

2025 Booker Longlist: The South by Tash Aw

Next up for our panel is Tash Aw’s novel, The South. Four of our panelists read this book and our final panelist is making her way through the book (post will be updated once she had finished). Once again we have some mixed reviews.

Aug 29

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2025 Booker Longlist: Flashlight by Susan Choi

Next up for our panel is Susan Choi’s Flashlight. All five panelists read this book and we were pretty split in our reviews. Which reviewer do you side with?

Aug 25

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2025 Booker Longlist: One Boat by Jonathan Buckley

Next up for our panel is One Boat by Jonathan Buckley. Four of our panelists finished and reviewed the book, one abandoned it. Here are our reviews.

Aug 22

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2025 Booker Longlist: Audition by Katie Kitamura

Our panel’s first longlist nominee is Audition by Katie Kitamura. Four of our panelists read this book, one panelist couldn’t finish it. Here are our panelists’ reviews…

Jul 21

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2025 Booker Prize Longlist Predictions

Once again Booker has rolled around. Every year our panel comes together to read and review all the booker nominees and to predict the winners. This year’s longlist will be announced on July 29. Every year we try and most years we fail spectacularly to get more than 3 correct predictions each. Will we have better luck this year? Keep reading to find out who we all selected and let us know what you think.

Jun 10

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Audition by Katie Kitamura

Life has been hectic so the blog has been slow/dormant for a few months. Despite my silence, I’ve been reading a decent amount and trying to go into Booker season with more books under my belt. Audition has been getting some very mixed reviews and I know quite a few people who hated it and abandoned it. Keep reading for my review. Will this make my prediction list for this year’s Booker longlist?

Jan 10

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The City and its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

Those of you who have followed the blog for a while already know that Murakami is one of my favorite authors so it’s probably no surprise that I picked a Murakami novel as my first read of the year. 2024 was less than stellar for me from a reading perspective. Work burnout and life stress left me with little energy and motivation to read (outside of our Booker feature) and even less time. So I go into 2025 hoping for a better reading year and I always enjoy a good Murakami novel. Did this book live up to my expectation? keep reading to find out.

Book Worm’s rating system

★ Bah I really hated this would not even pass this to my worst enemy
★★ I really didn't like this but would consider giving it to my worst enemy for vengeful purposes
★★★ this was an enjoyable way to pass the time not great not horrendous
★★★★ really enjoyed this book there was something about it that made me think
★★★★★ wow I loved this book I am now out recommending it to all my friends, will keep to re read even though I have banned re reads