Good Luck with the job!

I’m reading The Bandit Queens now and really enjoying it so far.

I really love all the womens prize content too. Got Cursed bread and Bandit Queens on my tbr now

Hi there 👋 😊 ☺️ 🤗

I’ve only read two books on the long list for the Womens Prize but I’d recommend both Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Tresspasses by Louise Kennedy ☕️📖🍀👋☘️📚📕

the women's prize always has some good books that i recommend to a lot of readers but imo, there's so many repeat authors that i'm getting a little tired of it lol. maggie o'farrell again (who is an author i really enjoy, actually), natalie haynes is on there again i think, madeline miller has been on there more than once. there's always a greek retelling, and it seems like every year they're like "ok, we got our [x] book, and our greek retelling, and our historical fiction novel about an unknown historical woman, a translated work, we got our thriller based in some rougher part of the UK" and so i just ... yeah. im like, wow, so different. so cool. lol. it's not that i dont think they shouldn't have parameters like that, but every year im like a little more meh about it tbh. it's a very marketable, readable prize, but idk if i'll actually read it like i used to. anyway, this was an unprompted rant, lmao, i enjoy hearing about your reading as always!

I totally echo your thoughts on the BTP. Last year I judged round 2 and that was a much better experience. For the Women's Prize I too have been intrigued by Bandit Queens, Cursed Bread and Dog of the North. I'm also intrigued by a few titles on the inaugural Carol Shields Prize.

I’m recommending to you two books that were 5 star reads for me so far on the #irishreadathon Dinner Party by Sarah Gilmartin My Fourth Time,We Drowned by Sally Hayden 🍀👋☘️📕📖☕️📚