The Mookse and the Gripes discussion

The shortlist has been announced - these are the books:

Slip of a Fish by Amy Arnold
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
The Porpoise by Mark Haddon
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy
Good Day? by Vesna Main
We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff by Isabel Waidner

As always, rankings only here - please use the comments thread for anything else

Final League Tables

My adjusted weightings method:

Pos, Book, Average, Adjusted, Count, First Places, STD
1, The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy, 2.00, 1.31, 14, 7, 0.71
2, Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann, 2.57, 1.66, 14, 5, 0.86
3, Good Day? by Vesna Main, 3.33, 2.45, 12, 0, 0.88
4, Slip of a Fish by Amy Arnold, 3.36, 2.55, 11, 0, 0.89
5, We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff by Isabel Waidner, 3.50, 2.78, 12, 3, 1.11
6, The Porpoise by Mark Haddon, 5.08, 4.33, 12, 0, 1.48

Paul-style aggregate of comparisons

Pos, Book, Average, Relative ranking, Count, First Places
1, The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy, 2.00, 30, 14, 7
2, Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann, 2.57, 18, 14, 5
3, Slip of a Fish by Amy Arnold, 3.36, -1, 11, 0
3, Good Day? by Vesna Main, 3.33, -1, 12, 0
5, We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff by Isabel Waidner, 3.50, -7, 12, 3
6, The Porpoise by Mark Haddon, 5.08, -39, 12, 0

1 Ducks Newburyport
2 Good Day?
3 Slip of a Fish
4 We Are Made of Diamond Stuff
5 The Man who saw Everything
6 The Porpoise



There is very little between 2 and 5 on this list, and on another day the order might be very different

1. The Man Who Saw Everything
2. Ducks, Newburyport
3. We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff
4. Good Day?
5. Slip Of A Fish
6. The Porpoise

The first four are all 5 stars from me and could be in another order on another day.

1. The man who saw everything
2. Ducks, Newburyport
3. Slip Of A Fish
4. Good day?
5. We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff
6. The Porpoise

1. Ducks, Newburyport
2. The Man who saw Everything
3. The Porpoise

1. The Man Who Saw Everything (8.5/10, my review)
2. Slip of a Fish (8/10, my review)
3.
4. Good Day
5. Ducks (5/10, my review)
6. The Porpoise

1 We are Made of Diamond Stuff
2 Good Day
3 Slip of a Fish
4 The Man Who Saw Everything
5 The Porpoise
6 Ducks, Newburyport

1 The Man Who Saw Everything
2 Ducks, Newburyport
3 Slip of a Fish
4 Good Day
5 We are Made of Diamond Stuff
6 The Porpoise

1. Ducks, Newburyport
2. The Man Who Saw Everything
3. We Are Made of Diamond Stuff

1) We Are Made of Diamond Stuff
2) The Man Who Saw Everything
3) Slip of a Fish
4) Good Day? (based on reading Temptation)
5) Ducks, Newburyport
6) The Porpoise

1. The Man Who Saw Everything
2. Slip of a Fish
3. The Porpoise
4. Good Day?
5, We Are Made of Diamond Stuff

All good books and difficult to rank.

I am not going to read Ducks, Newburyport.

1) The Man Who Saw Everything
2) Ducks, Newburyport
3)
4) We Are Made of Diamond Stuff
5)
6) The Porpoise (DNF)

1. We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff
2. Good Day?
3.
4.
5. Ducks, Newburyport
6.

1. Ducks, Newburyport
2. Good Day?
3. The Man Who Saw Everything
4. Slip of a Fish

Dunno what I think will actually win, but here's my list:

1 The Man who saw Everything
2 Ducks Newburyport
3 Good Day?
4 We Are Made of Diamond Stuff
5 Slip of a Fish
6 The Porpoise

I do love the fish & fowl theme overall though.

1 Ducks Newburyport
2 The Porpoise
3 The Man who saw Everything
4 Slip of a Fish
5 Good Day?
6 We Are Made of Diamond Stuff