So in addition the being Oprah’s latest selection, The Road now has the much more prestigous honor of being this year’s winner of The Rooster in The Morning News’ 3rd annual Tournament of Books. I must say though, that compared to the narrow margin of last year’s championship round, this one was kind of a let down. Once One Good Turn was out of the running, I was satisfied.
I haven’t read One Good Turn but reading about it sure didn’t make me want to. It sounds awful and I couldn’t understand why it kept advancing round after round. Maybe someone else can explain it’s virtues to me, or maybe it was the weaknesses of the books it was up against. Anyway, maybe it’s because I hadn’t read a single book on the list this year (yeah, I know), but the tournament just did have the excitement for me like it did the past two years. I did, as usual, find a couple of new books to put on the endless, endless list of books to purchase, but even though I was diligent about following the tournament, it was just kind of lackluster this year.
Well, there’s always next March.
