Dan Hartland Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Dan Hartland

Things that are good today: @OLaddieGirl on what Lucy from "Dracula" and Bertha from "Jane Eyre" get up to in @GwendolynKiste's "Reluctant Immortals". She shows how the novel is both fun and a valuable intervention in a review which is those things, too. https://t.co/QSxSh4v1ze

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The winner of this year's Women's Prize for Fiction will be announced shortly. Alas, I've still only read five of the six shortlisted books - the Ozeki is next on my list, but I just didn't make it. Given that & FWIW, Louise Erdrich's The Sentence is the best of the bunch for me.

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In which I discuss Maggie Shipstead's "Great Circle" ahead of the announcement tonight of this year's Booker Prize winner: https://thestoryandthetruth.wordpress.com/2021/11/03/an-impossibly-complex-system-maggie-shipsteads-great-circle/

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I promised some post-hoc thoughts on the Women's Prize shortlist, including its winner - Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi" - but also its other contenders. So here they are: https://thestoryandthetruth.wordpress.com/2021/09/24/really-more-of-a-magician-the-womens-prize-2021/

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Have you read the super @accommodatingly on the novels of Rachel Hartman? Pretty sure you'd like it! https://t.co/nlB32V0fHQ

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I promised a final - if belated - Booker review, and here it is: me on Powers' "Bewilderment" for @strangehorizons: http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/bewilderment-by-richard-powers/