To play with Jeanette Winterson's words, this month you can only have oranges... No, I am not imposing on you to only eat oranges, but to only read books that were longlisted, shortlisted or winners of the Orange Prize for Fiction. The lists of books are on the side bar, and you can find more information on the Orange Prize here.
The Orange Prize is all about women writers and the books that you can discover are fascinating: "Gut Symmetries" or "The Powerbook" (Jeanette Winterson), "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (Tracy Chevalier), "The Lovely Bones" (Alice Sebold), "The Time Traveler's Wife" (Audrey Niffenegger) and the list can go on.
I have read books nominated long before knowing about the prize, but a few weeks ago I discovered there's an Orange January/July challenge and I am taking part right at this very moment, reading "The Night Watch", by Sarah Waters.
Hopefully, the next one will be "The History of Love" :)
8 comments:
LOL, I love the title of your blog post! =) Thanks for writing it!
Glad you liked it! I am a huge Jeanette Winterson fan, so it just came naturally :))
I loved the Night Watch by Sarah Waters - last night the BBC showed a most wonderful adaptation. I recorded it to see it again...
Really, Corri? I didn't know there was an adaptation of the novel... I am going to look for it. As for the book, I haven't finished it yet, I went back to Murakami, who is addictive, but I will finish it this month :)
Oranges? During summer? Don't think so. I eat melons in summertime :P
Haha! How about reading something... anything (and I don't mean those thick books on how to treat your friends... actually, those are good too:)))
I perused the list of Orange winners; some I've read, most I've not heard of. It's an interesting category, though, and certainly well worth reading in. Thanks for increasing my awareness.
Also, I'm so glad The Lake arrived safely! One never knows with the postal system. xo
Bellezza, I have only read a small amount of the books listed in the Orange category, but some of them are fantastic, plus there's always a loooong list I can go back to :)
Yes, the Romanian postal office is a total mystery :)
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