Just a thought from a mere mortal...

Now that they are planning to open up the Man Booker prize to American authors, I'm just wondering how long the short list is going to be. I heard one critic on the radio saying that judges would have to read four hundred novels! She was lamenting the fact that she only ever manages to read two books a day. Well, it's taken me all Summer to get into double figures. I don't think I even managed to read two a week!

How do people do that and not have their brains burst? I couldn't possibly read so fast, or retain any details of the plot at such speed. So it is with a sense of abject failure that I resume my noble quest to shift as much reading matter as possible off my bookshelves, and out of my small terraced house. I am the plodding Shire horse to their literary thoroughbred. 

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Which type of reader are you?