Tag: patrick dewitt

So many of the match-ups in this year’s tournament have felt like we were looking at two books dropped in from different universes, in many cases with radically different ideas of what a novel could be. This match-up, on the other hand, is between two books that fit comfortably into high-school me would consider to be […]

The right side of the brackets is where I completely deviated from reality so there’s an alternate universe matchup and an actual universe matchup. In the alternative universe It would be between The Bee Sting and The Shamshine Blind. And while I liked the alternate universe of The Shamshine Blind, I found the family travails of The Bee Sting […]

In this last round of quarterfinals, I was only half-wrong in predicting the match-up, but half-wrong still is enough to generate An alternate universe In my alternate universe, the match-up would be between Monstrilio and The Bee Sting. Both look at complicated family dynamics with plenty of dysfunction to go around, and while I admired the magical […]

Ah, the first round where I have to deal with my picks to advance not matching up with the official selections. So my format has to change a bit. First, a bit of alternate reality I’ll start with what I would have had the match-up be. The Bee Sting vs What You Are Looking For Is in […]

For the first time, I’ve made the effort to try to read all the Tournament of Books entries before the tournament starts instead of relying on dumb luck to let me have read perhaps two or three. Having done this, I’ve decided to do my own parallel judging (I’ve been filling out my brackets as […]