So, I Read The Booker Prize 2022 Shortlist... 👀 📚 | Reading Vlog
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- A reading vlog where I read the Booker Prize shortlisted books and take you on some autumn walks. Grab a cup of tea and pull up a seat xx
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MY BOOKS:
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WHO I AM
Hello, I'm Jen Campbell. I'm an award-winning poet and bestselling author of twelve books, spanning short stories, poetry, picture books, and nonfiction.
My books for adults include The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night, The Girl Aquarium, The Bookshop Book, and The Sunday Times bestselling Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops series. My picture book trilogy Franklin and Luna, and my middle-grade book The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers, are published by Thames & Hudson.
I've won both an Eric Gregory Award and the Jane Martin Poetry Prize, my books have been translated into twenty languages, and I have two new titles forthcoming in 2023 - more details on those soon.
I've worked in the publishing industry for over fifteen years, initially as a bookseller, and now as a freelance editor, content creator and disability advocate. I review books online, in print and on the radio. I run a RUclips channel where I talk about books, the history of fairy tales, and the representation of disability and disfigurement. I also offer online writing workshops and editorial services, give talks at schools, publishing companies, universities and book festivals on a variety of topics, and I run a book club for TOAST clothing.
If you would like to speak with me about the possibility of working together, please get in touch via email: jenvcampbell@gmail.com x
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I love hearing you talk about books. I read the same books as you but you get so much more out of the text than I do! Thank you for sharing.
Mushrooms on bread/ toast! Just what I had before enjoying another of your videos 😊
Your reading vlog walks always remind me how lucky we are to live in beautiful England.🍂🌿☘
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Your prediction came true! I am glad Shehan K. has won the prize. It was new and I felt the same about your expectations from the winner. Also, you should do a video of Q&A or something with Sanne! ❤
I was absolutely taken by surprise seeing the shortlist... My favourites were the same as yours.
LOLA with the petrol blue pillow and you in the shirt+dungarees of the same colour 💙😍
Ha, I clearly like that colour. x
Brava, white liked this commentary and gleaned a few for my TBR list. Thank you.
You so nailed it Jen!!! I'm watching this the day after the Booker Prize announcement and of course had to find out the winner.....love watching you and the bits of life you share with us!!
Thank you so much. This was a great vlog and I enjoyed every moment of it.
Elizabeth Strout's audiobooks are great, I'd recommend those rather than the printed page. I've listened to a couple twice and the Lucy Barton books really grow on me, ones I could listen to a third time, love them. I"m going to dnf Glory for a while and return it to the library, I can't get into it at the moment. Looking forward to reading a couple of the others including the winner.
You won...the bet!! 🎉💙🎉💙🎉 Love the vid!!
Hey! Loved this cozy video! I also read the Trees and felt similarly. I loved the first two-thirds, but near the end it didn’t feel as tight and went a bit off the tracks, imo.
Jen, this is an interesting discussion about Booker (not) recognizing an author’s contribution to literature vs a specific book. I think both kinds of awards are good and necessary but they can’t be the same and I have always thought Booker was about individual books. Otherwise, it’s not fair to the debut authors etc because it’s not the same mode of comparison
Hi Jen! I read Maps per your recommendation as part of my own Booker project (+vlogs) and really enjoyed it. Thanks for the rec. 😊
I loved Oh William! Elizabeth Strout is a beautiful writer.
Congrats Jen-you guessed correctly! I had guessed GLORY (one of my top three), but wanted SEVEN MOONS. So, I’m pretty satisfied. But I need to read MAPS, NIGHTCRAWLING, and, with all of the praise (even given the divided response), TRUST.
Thanks Jen for a lovely video! My placing of the books is:-
1. The Trees (my library copy had the same issue with the printing)
2. Maali Almeida
3. Small Things like These
3. Oh William!
5. Glory (dnf)
6. Treacle Walker
You got it right, Jen. The seven moons... winner of the Booker. I still wanna read Night crawling and Spectacular bodies, and the trees (the same books mentioned as the best ones by Erik -Lonesome reader). So, thank you for the video and your opinion.
Appropro nothing at all to do with the Booker prize (!) I’d just like to thank you for mentioning the wonderfulness that is Kit de Waal! I’m listening to ‘The Trick to Time’ on Audible and ohhhh, falling asleep to Fiona Shaw is like being wrapped in soft velvet (notwithstanding the trigger warnings which are hard to cope with at times) The light relief of the aunts and Fiona’s excellent renditions of them was very welcome indeed!
If I could bottle Fiona I would (and then keep her all to myself! Ha ha ha!) I might share with you though!
I completely agree with your thoughts of The Trees, I really enjoyed 2/3rds of it and then felt it lost it’s way a little towards the end.
My edition (UK, bought direct from Influx Press) also has the same printing/formatting errors, such a shame!
Really enjoyed hearing your thoughts on all of these, Jen. I definitely want to read The Seven Moons and Case Study. And I'd like to pick up the winner too ☺
William and The Trees are my top, but I would love to have seen The Colony and Case Study up there too.
Hey Jenn and anyone else here who has read The Trees. Did your copy of the trees skip any chapter numbers? I have a friend who read it and said that two chapter numbers were skipped - I think it skipped 74 and maybe something around 104? We couldn't figure out if it was intentional or not, so wondering if the UK version skips those same numbers. Wonderful video - thank you so much for sharing! (And your mushrooms do, indeed, look appetizing!)
Just checked my copy and no skipped chapter numbers in mine x
@@jenvcampbell Weird! Thank you for checking!! 😀😀😀
I quite agree that you shouldn’t judge a book by its predecessor. But no book by Elizabeth Strout is contained in one book. She often reintroduces characters from other novels and it’s like their stories are still going on. I really appreciate that about her writing
I appreciate how she's able to balance that (at least in this book); the other books being creations in this fictional world certainly helps. x
I think reading is also cool ...and the books are mind openers
Of the shortlist, I’ve read The Trees, Small Things, and Treacle Walker. I very much intend to read Seven Moons, but I haven’t been in the mood for it. I intend to listen to Glory soonish as I have it out from the library. Oh William? Honestly couldn’t care less. From this list, The Trees is absolutely my favorite and I do hope it wins. Seven Moons, based on the premise and a few other things, is my second choice. Small Things is probably my third choice. I read it last Christmas, knowing nothing of the Laundries, and I thought it was beautiful. But, my number one book for the year to date is Nightcrawling, and I would have loved that to be shortlisted. I think it deserved it. I would have had a sad time choosing between The Trees and Nightcrawling, but since I already have in my personal reading, I would have gone for Nightcrawling. The Booker is not my prize. I never seem to like a lot of what they choose for their lists (albeit by a fresh panel every year). I am pretty invariably disappointed. That said… Bring on the Women’s Prize! 🎉
Thank you for sharing all of your thoughts ☺️ x
Co9ngrats, you won! Very precise prediction
I can't decide if I liked Oh William! Or the seven moons the best of the shortlist. I personally would have liked maps to win it was my favorite overall.
Maps is so brilliant. x
Which books do you wish had been nominated that didn't even make it onto the longlist? I haven't read any of the books on the list this year, but I'm planning to read Nightcrawling, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies and The Case Study. None of the shortlisted books particularly appeal to me, but I might read Seven Moons at some point.
I loved The Trees for what it was trying to do, but felt it got a little bit messy at the end. Disappointed that Trust didn’t make the shortlist, as I felt that did some really imaginative things with structure.
I was definitely surprised that Trust didn't make the shortlist. x
Could you tell me the name of the piano music playing during your walk, please? It was beautiful.
Music is always at the bottom of the video description ☺️ xx
I started on a culled long list - I love Elizabeth Strout but didn't think it her best - a bit like Ali Smith's seasons - I loved Winter more than Summer. The Trees is a good sharp satire. The Seven Moons was really interesting and well done. Small Things pulls on the heart strings. I'm not so interested in the other two.
I've not read all the long list but I adored After Sappho.
I remember Lamont at large doing the story of Emmet Till ( spelling ?).
I read someone describe Oh William as 'cosy-litfic'. I really love the idea of that as a genre! But I've no idea if it's accurate as I haven't read it yet.
I would say that's accurate! x
@@jenvcampbell Oh good! I'll have to give it a go.
That's a great description!
I love that. Makes me want to pick it up!
did you think the wrong formatting of speech/ dialogue in the trees was on purpose? like in terms of idk ghostly presences / interchangeability / catfishing or something? (i havent read it, i was just thinking about why that might be in the book!) i've been umming and aahring about whether to pick up oh william! & ur vlog has maintained my ambivalence haha ! i did kinda wanna read some of the long/shortlist especially maps of spectacular bodies if that's the right title... but i am too tired and have been too busy to do that :(
No, I don’t. Sadly, they’re clearly mistakes (other commenters on this video had the same issue). x
@@jenvcampbell oh that is really sad :(
I loved Small Things Like These. I don't think it's about the Magdalene Laundries per se, otherwise that might have been explored / explained more. I think it's mostly about how evil happens because essentially good people look the other way, and choose to do nothing about it. And we're all guilty of that in different aspects of life. That's why it had such a huge emotional impact on me. It wasn't the "reveal", which I doubt was intended to be this big plot twist, otherwise the dedication at the beginning of the book would not be there ;).
Oh, I don't think it's supposed to be a surprise, either (in fact, I think we're supposed to know more than the characters acknowledge, which is interesting). I just meant that, on the whole, the very positive reviews I've seen on here have come from reviewers who had little to no knowledge of the Magdalene Laundries, so lacked context for the dedication and therefore had a very strong reaction to where the book went, and I think my reading of it would have been different if I'd been coming to the material for the first time, too.
The only book I've read (well, finishing it today) is The Trees. I'd be happy enough if it won. Seven Moons seems the most conventional winner. But if any group on the planet has a concentration of Garner megafans, it's probably a Booker jury.
Clarity makes stories readable. Concise phrasing and avoidance of dependent clauses along with precise vocabulary carry a reader along as story and character unfold. Too often literary writers depend on convolution in an attempt to impress. Style is how one thinks, not how cluttered one makes one's prose.
I’m still reeling from the shock of The Colony not being shortlisted. Should the Booker just create a separate prize for short fiction? Should books that are part of a series be eligible?
I now think that
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
will win.
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At 3:58 I think squeal should be in different awards since I mostly read standalones
I love your red hair, Jen.
This wig is certainly apt for the autumn. x
I'm interested in the seven moons book but nothing else looks great. Weird mix.
Hey 👋 👋
Can I say that I'm disappointed that the whole "this is a lifetime achievement award" conversation in regards to Treacle Walker was here too? I find that to be really agist. When a book that we don't enjoy gets nominated only if the author is older do we go that route. I would rather just have the same argument of "I don't think this merited the nomination" without the agist add-ons. I find it especially egregious because Jen liked the Elizabeth Strout even though that one also capitalizes on the reader having even a margin of knowledge on her previous works.
I'm not being ageist at all; I'm saying that the enjoyment of Garner's book depends on having knowledge of his previous books and his life, given it’s so self-referential, whereas the Strout, whilst a sequel, I think is able to contextualise itself and stand on its own two feet. I discussed all of that in the video.
I mean, sometimes that's simply what happens with award nominations or wins.
@@jenvcampbell you did say that, but you also said that this was an award for his lifetime of work, which, again, it is the usual discourse only when the author in question is older. if the conversation had only been about how his work doesn't work without the context and hers does, I wouldn't have mentioned the issue, but yeah... I just think we, as a whole, should just discontinue the idea of people getting awards nominations based on their lifetime of work (not that it doesn't happen, but the accusation only comes up when an author is older and it just feels like an easy condemnation) and instead focus on the ways in which the nomination lacks merit as a whole. You did a great job at the latter, just unfortunate you also mentioned the former.
@@giuf175 I don't disagree, I just still feel like it's a cheapshot. Like an older person can't get nominated because some people thought the book had merit (even if you disagree with that merit) Also, trying to figure out the "why" of a nomination in those terms is a fools errand. I think it better to focus on the text and what the nomination could have been about based on the text and it's impact.
I’ve just listened to Jean and she really wasn’t ageist at all.
Have you thought of joining the booktube awards?
I’ve been asked to take part in that before but it’s not something I’ve had time to do x
@@jenvcampbell yay too many books so little time. Have a great week
Indeed! I hope you have a good week, too x
@@jenvcampbell :)