![]() ![]() He rides off into the sunset with his sidekick, who is apparently by this point a literal shadow of himself, and mansplains to any luckless passing traveller his recipe for ‘quichotte’. Quichotte?! I imagine this book’s concept as basically Don Quixote re-envisaged as an early ‘70s cookbook writer with an unhealthy interest in quiche and Spam. ![]() This cover is what Once Upon a Time in Hollywood would look like if it were character Rick Dalton’s autobiography. Judges are meant to read a book a day – even if you can manage to keep that up for any length of time, you still have to think about them critically and compare them to each other. Here, I’ll be judging the Booker shortlist the only truly fair way: by their covers. When has not reading the book ever stopped me before? Most awards processes end up being a little ridiculous, anyway. Or maybe you are? Maybe you’re the one who’s got it together, who’ll review each one in loving or scathing detail on your Goodreads account. ![]() Unfortunately (or not – I mean, one of these novels is over 1000 pages), I’m probably not actually going to read any of them. Margaret Atwood has written a much-anticipated sequel to her ‘dystopian’-realist novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. ![]()
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