Battle of the Prizes – British (2012 Reading Challenge)
Gilion of Rose City Reader also hosts the British version of The Battle of the Prizes. This challenge pits winners of the English Man Booker Prize against winners of the Scottish James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
To meet the goal, I need to read one book that won both of those awards; a book that won the Booker Prize, and another that has won the James Tait Black Prize. That’s a total of three books.
There are only three books that have won both prizes, and I have already read one when I participated in 2010. But I’m very interested in India’s history, so I’m going to tackle Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
Man Booker Prize winner:
The Sense of an Ending
James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner:
Man at Arms
Yeah! Thanks for signing up again for 2012.
I am trying something new this year by asking participants to sign up with Mr. Linky. Can you do me the favor of going to the challenge page for the 2012 version and putting the link to this post in the Mr. Linky box under the Participants heading? I tried to do it myself, but Mr. Linky knew I was the blog owner and wouldn’t let me.
If you have problems with it, please let me know. I fear that Mr. Linky is being temperamental.