Even though I'm busier than ever this year, I'm still determined to read as many of the Whitney Award finalists as I can. I consider it a great privilege to be able to vote and I take it seriously. Right now I'm stuck in Undaunted. If I stay up for another 45 minutes or so, I should be able to finish it. The end is kind of dragging for me and I keep wanting to start another book, but I'm trying to be disciplined and read one book at a time. As it stands, I'm about half done the reading list.
Maybe it's because I have so many other things on my plate right now, but I'm convinced that the books (on average) are longer this year than last year. Maybe when life slows down a bit, I'll figure it out - just because I'm a little obsessive like that. Meanwhile, I'm off to go read into the wee hours of the morning. Tomorrow is just a bunch of housecleaning and I don't need to be totally awake for that, right?
3 comments:
You're so awesome! Reading ALL the book of the list is just cool.
Do you buy all the books or do you have the authors send a copy to you? That would be EXPENSIVE to buy all the books on the list.
Most of the books I can get from the library. Some of the books are made available to members of the voting academy in PDF form and I usually end up buying a few.
That would be so fun to read all the finalists. Kind of like a writing workshop in fiction form :-).
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