The Stella Prize Longlist: Discussion and Reaction
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Looking forward to reading a few of these. I'll need to remember to keep a list of those I can't access so that next time we visit my Aussie based son I can send him to the library before I arrive.
There are some interesting books on this list. Yay! 😊 Thanks
Thanks for this Scott. Hospital does sound good. Deep in the Woman’s Prize but would like to read a couple from this list.
The Women Book Prizes are pretty amazing this year. This one might win for the most amazing covers. Looking forward to seeing what goes through to the shortlist. 😊💙
I was very surprised not to see Wifedom on the list but I’m excited for this list as a whole. I am most of the way through The Hummingbird Effect and am enjoying it so far, but I must say I am enjoying some of the perspectives more than others. I’ll wait to see how everything comes together in the end to give my final thoughts, though I will say I don’t think I was ready to read about a person in a nursing home during pandemic lockdowns (I had grandparents in that situation during lockdown and it all still feels pretty raw) because every time it’s that timeline I am getting super emotional about it!
Love learning about all these books - I knew of a few but many I hadn't heard of! Thanks so much for sharing!
Thank you for such incredibly thoughtful videos! You make me want to read absolutely everything ❤
Thanks for introducing me to a whole slew of books I was unaware of!
A fantastic list! I had Praiseworthy on my long-longlist predictions for the Women's Prize actually!
Alexis Wright is a marvellous writer, I've been trying to read Praiseworthy since it came out but just have not had the bandwith and now struggling with a reading slump, so it will have to wait for me. Other than that I've only read Edenglassie which was well worth reading, unusually for me I preferred the modern storyline but mainly because I was in trepidation for the characters in the historical storyline. I'm actually looking forward to the Hummingbird Effect and quite a few of the others. Thanks for the discussion and reaction vid, Scott, hope you enjoy reading a few of these.
The Body Friend sounds so good! So many of these. I love that includes nonfiction, graphic novels and poetry.
FYI:The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar translated from Persian by Adrien Kijek, nominated Stella 2018 & international booker 2020. It's one of my favourites but a ⚠️ full of magical realism.
I love your shirt Scott! Great sounding list - Hospital sounds fantastic, if not slightly unnerving. I will have to see what you recommend and then what I can find over here on the other side of the world. Thanks for breaking it down for us.
I hadn't heard of most of these, fab spotlight 🤩
My 👂 perked up big time when you talked about Abandon Every Hope - added to TBR asap
It's funny, The Carol Shield's prize basically has the American books most people expected for the Women's Prize, and the Stella prize is just a massive surprise bundle. Well, for me anyway. I am sadly ignorant when it comes to Australian fiction. Looking forward to your reviews.
I’ve been really fussy lately. The book descriptions on many of the prize longlists (Women’s prize, Carol Shields, Stella) just haven’t appealed to me. The two I’m most interested in from the Stella are Hospital and She Is the Earth. Cobby Eckermann’s will be released in Canada in May 2024 and Rushdi’s is already available, so I feel lucky! Oh, and I’m interested in anything by Alexis Wright but I already have The Swan Book on my shelf so I have been reinvigorated about that one, which I set aside partway through when I injured my brain and haven’t picked it up since.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the list.
sounds like some interesting books. Wish it wasn't so hard to get Aussie books here in the states. I keep beating the drum for them at my two libraries. Now I have new books I hope to convince them to buy. Thanks so much for another wonderful video. Love your channel
Lots of great sounding books! Looking forward to any reviews you do of these! 😁