{"id":7023,"date":"2012-03-08T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T21:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=7023"},"modified":"2016-07-12T11:56:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T15:56:46","slug":"2012-orange-prize-for-fiction-longlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2012\/03\/08\/2012-orange-prize-for-fiction-longlist\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Orange Prize for Fiction Longlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the longlist for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction was announced:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Island of Wings<\/strong><\/em>, by Karin Altenberg<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>On the Floor<\/strong><\/em>, by Aifric Campbell<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Grief of Others<\/strong><\/em>, by Leah Hager Cohen<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Sealed Letter<\/strong><\/em>, by Emma Donoghue<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Half-Blood Blues<\/strong><\/em>, by Esi Edugyan <em>(my review <a title=\"Mookse Review of Half-Blood Blues\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2011\/10\/18\/esi-edugyan-half-blood-blues\/\">here<\/a>)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Forgotten Waltz<\/strong><\/em>, by Anne Enright<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Flying Man<\/strong><\/em>, by Roopa Farooki<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Lord of Misrule<\/strong><\/em>, by Jaimy Gordon <em>(my review <a title=\"Mookse Review of Lord of Misrule\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2011\/05\/05\/jaimy-gordon-lord-of-misrule\/\">here<\/a>)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Painter of Silence<\/strong><\/em>, by Georgina Harding<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Gillespie and I<\/strong><\/em>, by Jane Harris<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Translation of the Bones<\/strong><\/em>, by Francesca Kay<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Blue Book<\/strong><\/em>, by A.L. Kennedy<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Night Circus<\/strong><\/em>, by Erin Morgenstern<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Song of Achilles<\/strong><\/em>, by Madeline Miller<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Foreign Bodies<\/strong><\/em>, by Cynthia Ozick <em>(my review <a title=\"Mookse Review of Foreign Bodies\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/11\/15\/cynthia-ozick-foreign-bodies\/\">here<\/a>)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>State of Wonder<\/strong><\/em>, by Ann Patchett <em>(my review <a title=\"Mookse Review of State of Wonder\" href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2011\/06\/17\/ann-patchett-state-of-wonder\/\">here<\/a>)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>There but for the<\/strong><\/em>, by Ali Smith<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Pink Hotel<\/strong><\/em>, by Anna Stothard<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Tides of War<\/strong><\/em>, by Stella Tillyard<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Submission<\/strong><\/em>, by Amy Waldman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have read only four of them (links to the reviews above), and would rank those as follows: (1) <em>Foreign Bodies<\/em> (this is Ozick, so I am obligated to love it &#8212; and I did), (2)\u00a0<em>Lord of Misrule<\/em> (I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this book about horse racing &#8212; or, rather, about the unfortunates crowding around the horse races), (3)\u00a0<em>Half-Blood Blues<\/em> (I liked this one much more than I was expecting and wouldn&#8217;t have been upset had it won the Booker last year), and then <em>State of Wonder<\/em> (this one was also better than I thought but was much less to my taste &#8212; the story comes before the development of any interesting ideas here).<\/p>\n<p>My positive response to the four I read means I might like many more on this list.\u00a0 My focus over the next few months will be on the Best Translated Book Award longlist (the list here), but I&#8217;ve been meaning to slip in <em>Gillespie and I<\/em> and <em>The Forgotten Walz<\/em> (after all, I need to have read some of the books written in Great Britain and Ireland as they put together the prize!).<\/p>\n<p>The shortlist will be announced on April 17 and the winner on May 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orange Prize longlist has been announced. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2012\/03\/08\/2012-orange-prize-for-fiction-longlist\/\"><u>Read the full 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