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Is it just me or do the shortlist repeat authors seem really recent? (Or am I thinking so because of Constellation of Vital Phenomena hitting the Tourney of Favorites in this group?)
Phyllis wrote: "The shortlist is out! The shortlist is out! https://themorningnews.org/article/th..."thank you! I'm still only half paying attention cause my kiddo is sick again so it's helpful to have a community on top of these things!
Joy D wrote: one of my pet peeves....."I HATE PALIMPSEST! its such an pretentious word and such an AWFUL mouthfeel! It was correctly used in Atkinson's Life After Life as well but still bugged me.
I'm a few days late to posting but I'm available now so please let me know if there are any additional topics besides the usual you'd like to see for the upcoming TOB!Longlist posted: themorningnews.org/article/the-year-i...
(unfortunately we can no longer post external links)
If anyone has already created a spreadsheet/google doc for this (with page length preferably!) please post it to the thread!
Next thread will be for the shortlist competition (which I'll get posted no later than Tuesday so we have at least a week to compete!)
Also - happy to judge if you need one!
This is so exciting Maggie! Thank you so much!
Patty - thanks so much for setting up the thread!I personally wish I had a list to pick from — open ended is just TOO much choice for my indecisive self!
Final judgments: Klara and the Sun vs. No One is Talking About This:https://themorningnews.org/tob/2022/c...
And our last round before finals….No One is Talking About This vs Matrix:
https://themorningnews.org/tob/2022/m...
Zombie #1 - "She's Alive!" - Klara and the Sun vs. The Treeshttps://themorningnews.org/tob/2022/k...
whoa this one is going to be used in perpetuity in arguing against Zombies :)
Elizabeth wrote: "(For anyone who hasn't read Headley's The Mere Wife..."adding it to the list w/the TOB rec tag! :) (but also because she just seems great and so so smart!)
Tomorrow's QF includes our last 3rd & 4th seed books left in the tourney... which means the only real chances for decent upset points in the brackets competition! Opening Rounds saw a lot of upsets but QF winners so far are all 1st and 2nd seeds.
Hi Phyllis - while I admired the work, the mash-up of slapstick with horror/revenge fantasy really didn’t work for me. I don’t mind either by themselves (though I have a limit to my tolerance of the former) but together it just really hit the wrong note. And the ending felt very (purposefully) messy in a way that my brain couldn’t just let be.
No One is Talking About This vs When we Cease to Understand the World: https://themorningnews.org/tob/2022/n...
Man I really thought this judge would go the other way!
As the morningnews.org homepage says "comfort vs. perversion" a.k.a. "When We Cease to Understand the World" vs. "The Book of Form and Emptiness" https://themorningnews.org/tob/2022/t...
