I’ve been trying to be better about posting here once each weekday so that there’s something consistently going on between discussions. Tonight, a friend read my last post and burst out, sarcastically, "Well, tell us what you really think." I guess it wasn’t very nice of me to call The Observer’s best book pick crap. And looking over my last few entries, I suppose they’re a bit more snarky than necessary. So I think I’ll attempt to write a nice post about something nice and with an exceptionally nice attitude.

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Nope. No. Can’t do it.

So, Kiran Desai won the Booker for The Inheritance of Loss and said, "I know the best book does not win. The compromise wins." She's right. Isn’t that exactly what’s wrong with the prize in the first place?

Has MSNBC posted the Quills winners yet?