Seven months to read 138 novels
Gaby Wood, Man Booker Prize 2011 judge, writes about the experience in the Telegraph:
What struck me most, though, was how much I learnt about my own taste. I was swayed by voice over plot and by sentence over structure. (Of course, in the best cases one didn’t have to choose.) Sometimes I would find a passage in a book so exceptionally raw that I would stop to allow a thought inadmissible in a literary jury member: These writers have poured themselves into these books – who are we to judge them?
Fascinating insight into the judging process.
(via @edhoganderby)
