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2011 (re bks pub 2010) any favorites this group? ~ not so far, reading thr. but not unint.

have read: So Much For That - galley. good, not outstanding, but int esp re healthcare, 'retiring' early to thrdwrld ctry. and life goes on ing.
Room - took home hrdvr for a nite. compelling mysteryish to read. some pleasing bits.

acquainted: Bad Marie -mention EW wrt Mona Simpson My Hollywood, survey other bks re nannies, I was int fr the one sentence cap but lkd up then d n care to read.
Bloodshot -galley, oh and also EW writeup, isnit?

am fmlr w: Franzen -- Freedom ~ I'm w JohnWllms who I wondered & ggld & found is not the one from RM hs but a diff guy, founder of Second Pass - lks good, read OurBks OurSlvs, fill in on this year's talk re gender in lit - who says "in honestly befuddled camp" ~ The Correctns to me was supermarkety family drama. so okay, I guess like Middlemarch, wh is 'classic.' but writing less appealling. as Sarah Manguso here said in chmpshp judge, only Egan's of the two bks sentences found way into her commonplace bk (Manguso's, that is, things in mind). Manguso still writing well, top-ish cmmt on final chmpshp cmmtry said she was fvr judge & sold a bk as result. yes me too so I feel ahead of th game hvg got Two Kinds Decay but today read intrvw w her wh is it made me feel like she's not for me? did like how uncompromising was in bookslut intrvw not assimilating to qstnr's way-of-talking-re-reading eg genres memoir but oh maybe d n like 'Franzen made me weep for lost love but Egan reminded me death is coming' bcs I d n trust 'weep' and also 'remind', wh is sth I wld hv said but it's just convenient. so what is more to the true? ~ I was sad with Freedom about love that is gone. With Goon Squad I was where I know there is death for me. ~
ps do like the line quoted by manguso & also by matthew defective yeti who stopped at it, p11 of the bk declared it th winner (I guess he *liked* the line - rt?) but he said it was re 'a child' while she said it was re daughter-in-law (so maybe th char first on scene as child) and that does, fr without the context, suggestive of int relation "she was like an imaginary friend who happened to be visible" ok so known to him only through his son, as part of his son's world, as a voice or reflection of his son's inner life. int to me re child-in-law. bcs your own child so important to you, the spouse is aspect of that child. may as well not be a person herself. (but is.

J Egan -- Goon Squad / Egan is almost lorrie moore early fvr of mine and more than moore re BirdsAmer I liked Egan at P&P was it for ~'LookAtMe' (?) not ~ 'Circus' ? saying she trying to say things have not said before at 33 takes into off territory / ~ but it seems I liked The Keep, really very funny, and now - was it th d n care for end? - do not much want read this next bk? & The Keep was not in tournamt before? pub 2006 so wld be 2007 tourn


let recap me: I happened upon tourn in 2006. pleasantly associated w joe in mailroom writing out piece of paper little writing basketball picks office pool, and I decline and say Oh! tournament of bks, and every time there it is. this year not in mailroom only happenedly did some reading at sudie's computer while elena sleeps, came to it on weekend while game play recap up before Monday's chmpnshp, now have the whole of it to read. w commentaries, cmmts fr readers, plus over to commenting blogs.

anyway 2005 before me. Cloud Atlas won, right?

2006 the year of most involvement by me. final Homeland (scrappy up&comer! funny) v The Accidental (my kind of bk if not fvr). sam lipsyte, ali smith.
------note re layout d n have the convenient sidebar links to all book matches. that starts in 2007. + convenient header drop-downs of Brackets, Judges, Books starts in 2009? no 2010. so this only 2nd yr of superb format.-----

2007 no bks esp of int to me? I guess not. final The Road v Absurdistan. cormac mccarthy, gary shteyngart (also in this year's, and has bn a judge). I think maybe I got int in some of the judges? maybe dlcs notes. (or here dlww?) mark sarvas? sth in mind re th name. dan chaon, whose first bk I hv You Remind Me of Me. maybe got th bcs liked his cmmtry here, or why? sth like th. and no, no The Keep here.

2008 - appears again not I was m into. books nor judges. final Remainder v Brief Wondrous Life Oscar Wao. tom mccarthy, juan diaz. I had read Remainder, of some int but cold leaving. j diaz seems nice, think he wrote here an acceptance, and maybe judged a match a prvs year? also incl Tree of Smoke by denis johnson, Savage Detectives by r bolano so was first of two appearances in a row in tourn, and Then We Came to the End by j ferris wh I did read some of.

2009 - City of Refuge scrappily to final v The Mercy. tom piazza , toni morrison. also incl Dart League King, wh I then was happy to find galley of. also 2666 r bolano much discussed.

2010 - eh final The Lacuna v Wolf Hall. but almost also Book of Night Women, as scrappy to semifinals. kingsolver. hilary mantel. marlon james. Bk Night Women in th one I got out of it. also j kottke in much ngtv cmmmtd judgmt chose Lacuna over Let the Great World Spin, with discussn of the design, wh I d n mind but disagreed on every pnt: I prefer paper, prefer quiet illustratn of Let The, dislike dust jackets esp with holes, and this is even worse that it has a lacuna in it yech, and I v m dislike deckle edge! yech. do not like th look maybe bcs assoc w cmmrclsm, commercially 'literary', but anyway bothers me bcs like to flip and pages clump. ps this year tourn also incl l moore Gate At Th Stairs, beaten out the gate by Bk of Night Women. in judgemt by C Max McGee who edits the Millions (and this year gave the addtnl vote in th chmpshp.) did I like wh said? think I liked each judgemt re Bk Night Women. in its second match, 'qrtr finals', judge Carolyn Kellogg who of int to me bcs of qstn, answer is not, whether my friend Connie.
also 2010 begins the Biblioracle, right? spontaneously in cmmtry qrtrfinals Wolf Hall vs Anthologist. [y: themorningnews.org/tob/2010/wolf-hall-v-the-anthologist-commentary ]cmmtatrs Kevin Guilfoile & John Warner discussing 'voodoo' of reading, wh ppl like. John W offers to try recommending bks in cmmts based on last 5 you read. and then didn't they do this again, prior to this year's tournament, billed as sth like a half-time show?

finally, now 2011 Freedom v Goon Squad. j franzen, j egan.


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