Challenge Accepted!

I was emailed a link to the Man Booker Prize 2014 website, and from constantly having my nose in a book and following all things literary, I was, of course, intrigued to find out had made the list. I have always worked with books. Both job wise and pleasure wise. What an excellent form of escapism they are when our own worlds seem too much, or too mundane.

As an off-hand comment I shared the link on my Facebook with the words "13 books in 3 months; 1 book every 9 days" to see if I could convince any off my friends to read the list with me.

I love a challenge, I love setting a goal and aspiring to it.
Hitting a target.
This is an epic challenge, but a great one.
 A chance to actually give a valid and informed opinion should I have the question "and who do you want to win The Man Booker Prize 2014, Kat?" thrown at me.

One can only answer properly if all the books on the list have been read. This same thought came into action when there was that rather controversial debate over the Fifty Shades of Grey series. You couldn't really dismiss it, or indulge in it if you hadn't read the book. The nation got a little heated. In corresponding discussion, obviously, not because of  the Red Room....

As I was a true eager beaver, I was actually the first person to comment on the link and thus opened my Facebook, and the Man Booker Prize 2014 Quest to a plethora of like mind book folk across the globe.

Instead of shying away, I'm embracing this. The quest will begin here. this will be a hub of reviews, where to find the books, which books to start with, exclusive author interviews and features, reading events and social antics aplenty.

So come with me, let's us enter tomorrow with the mighty reading list.
Let us walk the street clutching a book to our face.
Let us dog-ear pages as we're packed into tubes.
Let us sneak in a few paragraphs while waiting for the kettle to boil.
Let us gasp out loud at the turn of a page.
Let us underline sentences that are beautifully sequenced.
Let us collect and swap copies with those around us.
Let us smugly slam shut the heavier novels once finished.
Let us read, let us read let us read.

http://www.themanbookerprize.com/man-booker-prize-2014