EMASL are my initials in case you are wondering and my apologies for the dreadful name - I was trying to think of something witty and amusing and came up with zilch. It is Friday afternoon and my nerves are in shreds flicking onto the BBC website every five minutes and praying that the England Cricket team have 
not lost another wicket in the interim.
So to sooth my nerves, thought I would have a bit of fun and nominate books for my very own EMASLooker Longlist. If you click on the names you will pull up my posts (I hope). I would be interested in hearing any comments you may have on these books. At the moment I have no idea who will emerge the winner (well I lie, I might have) but we shall see.
Main criteria for the inclusion on this list is that they must be terrific reads, unputdownable, make me laugh, make me cry, make me think, make me feel happy, make me sad that I have finished reading them. Therefore, Salman Rushdie need not apply as he merely makes me feel irritated.
Here goes then, all totally arbitrary, mixture of fiction and non-fiction and in no particular order whatsoever:
- Resistance - Agnes Humbert
- Resistance - Owen Sheers
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Anne Shaffer
- The Book of Love - Sarah Bower
- Cathedral of the Sea - Idelfonso Falcones
- An Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
- Over - Margaret Forster
- Mothernight - Sarah Stovell
- The Great Western Beach - Emma Smith
- Ekaterinburg - Helen Rappaport
Ok there we go. As I said, totally personal, arbitrary and hope you like my choices. So far these books are in my top reads of 2008 but as we are only in August I am expecting a lot more to come my way.
