The Mookse and the Gripes discussion

Booker eligible books inexplicably excluded from the longlist.

Hungry Ghosts
Soldier Sailor
Cuddy
Losing the Plot
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

Without consulting GY, I have listed this group of books he has selected for the inaugural Barker Prize, which seems like a good prize for this group since every year there are books we are surprised and disappointed were not longlisted for the Booker.
If you want me to delete this I will, GY, but it was on social media so I assumed it was public information.

I have read 4 of the above and ordered For Thy Great Pain…which I was excited to see is about Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe.
I’m holding off on Soldier, Sailor as I’m not keen to read yet another book about motherhood.

These are books I chose to wait and read when they are on the Booker longlist!! That was a reasonable decision at the time. Now I wish I hadn’t waited. I still hope to get to them.

Now you have a good reason, Kathleen!

Six good books to fetch.

I have a bone to pick with some of the choices

These are books that we expected to winalot so it was surprising they weren't Booker listed

etc etc.....

I see what you two did there. Clever.

I don’t know how I missed hearing about For thy Great Pains… I love stories of women talking to each other and I’m curious about The Book of Margery Kempe.