The Mookse and the Gripes discussion

Usual rules - list the ones you have read in order of preference, best first. You can number them if you want to predict the position they will finish in. I will add book and author links later in the week.

These are the books:

Blood Red by Gabriela Ponce Padilla tr. Sarah Booker (Restless Books)
Family Album: Stories by Gabriela Alemán tr. Dick Cluster, Mary Ellen Fieweger (City Lights Books)
Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing by Robin McLean tr. (And Other Stories)
God's Children Are Little Broken Things: Stories by Arinze Ifeakandu tr. (A Public Space Books)
Moldy Strawberries by Caio Fernando Abreu tr. Bruna Dantas Lobato (Archipelago Books)
New Animal by Ella Baxter tr. (Two Dollar Radio)
A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse tr. Damion Searls (Transit Books)
New and Selected Stories by Cristina Rivera Garza tr. Sarah Booker, Lisa Dillman, Francisca González Arias, Alex Ross, Cristina Rivera Garza (Dorothy, a publishing project)
Pollak's Arm by Hans von Trotha tr. Elisabeth Lauffer (New Vessel Press)
The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr tr. (Coach House Books)

League Tables (not very meaningful yet):

My adjusted weightings method:

Pos, Book, Average, Adjusted, Count, First Places, STD
1, Pollak's Arm by Hans von Trotha, 3.20, 2.20, 5, 1, 0.62
2, The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr, 3.50, 2.50, 4, 0, 0.54
2, God's Children Are Little Broken Things: Stories by Arinze Ifeakandu, 3.50, 2.50, 4, 0, 0.52
4, A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse, 3.80, 2.80, 5, 2, 0.94
5, Family Album: Stories by Gabriela Alemán, 5.75, 4.75, 4, 0, 1.02
6, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing by Robin McLean, 6.00, 5.00, 4, 1, 1.18
7, Blood Red by Gabriela Ponce Padilla, 6.50, 5.50, 4, 0, 1.26
8, New and Selected Stories by Cristina Rivera Garza, 6.75, 5.75, 4, 0, 1.15
8, Moldy Strawberries by Caio Fernando Abreu, 6.75, 5.75, 4, 1, 1.33
10, New Animal by Ella Baxter, 8.50, 7.50, 4, 0, 1.49

Paul-style aggregate of comparisons

Pos, Book, Average, Relative ranking, Count, First Places
1, Pollak's Arm by Hans von Trotha, 3.20, 17, 5, 1
2, The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr, 3.50, 16, 4, 0
2, God's Children Are Little Broken Things: Stories by Arinze Ifeakandu, 3.50, 16, 4, 0
4, A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse, 3.80, 9, 5, 2
5, Family Album: Stories by Gabriela Alemán, 5.75, -2, 4, 0
6, Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing by Robin McLean, 6.00, -4, 4, 1
7, Blood Red by Gabriela Ponce Padilla, 6.50, -8, 4, 0
8, New and Selected Stories by Cristina Rivera Garza, 6.75, -10, 4, 0
8, Moldy Strawberries by Caio Fernando Abreu, 6.75, -10, 4, 1
10, New Animal by Ella Baxter, 8.50, -24, 4, 0

1. A New Name (6*)- my review
2. Pollak's Arm (4.5*) - my review
3. God’s Children Are Little Broken Things: Stories (4*)- my review
4. The Sleeping Car Porter (4*) - my review
5. Blood Red (4*) - my review
6. Family Album (3.5*) - my review
7. New and Selected Stories (3*) - my review
8. New Animal (3*) - my review
9. Moldy Strawberries (3*) - my review
10. Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothin (2.5*) - my review

1 A New Name
3 Pollak's Arm

1. Pollak's Arm (5*)
2. A New Name (5*)
3. The Sleeping Car Porter (5*)

4. Family Album (4*)
5. God's Children Are Little Broken Things (4*)
6. Get 'em Young, Treat 'em Tough, Tell 'em Nothin (4*)
7. New and Selected Stories (4*)

8. New Animal (2*)
9. Blood Red (2*)
10. Moldy Strawberries (DNF - 59% read)

1. And Other Stories. Get 'em Young
2. Restless Books. Blood Red
3. A Public Space. God's Children
4. New Vessel. Pollak's Arm
5. Coffee House. The Sleeping Car Porter
6. Transit. A New Name
7. Archipelago. Moldy Strawberries
8. Dorothy Project. New and Selected
9. City Lights. Family Album
10. Two Dollar Radio. New Animal

1. God's Children
2. New and Selected Stories
3. Moldy Strawberries
4. Pollok's Arm

1. Moldy Strawberries
2. Sleeping Car Porter
3. God’s Children
4. Family Album
5. New and Selected Stories
6. Pollak’s Arm
7. Get ‘em Young
8. New Animal
9. A New Name
10. Blood Red

Shortlist:

1. Restless Books. Blood Red
2. A Public Space. God's Children
3. New Vessel. Pollak's Arm
4. Coffee House. The Sleeping Car Porter
5. Transit. A New Name

I'm mourning the McLean.

1. The Sleeping Car Porter
2. Pollak's Arm
3. Blood Red

The other two would definitely come before Blood Red had I read them.

Shortlist
1. Pollack's Arm
2. The Sleeping Car Porter
3. A New Name
4. God's Children

And last, the one I hope does not win
5. Blood Red