Easy. Read historical fiction. Covers all bases.

Sounds like me. I read maybe 2 a month on average, some months I don’t have time, some months I read a lot more.

About 25-30 books a year for me.

This was not even close to the experience I had in school or my kids, I’ve always found the teachers here very flexible with reading. They encouraged reading other books and reading to your child if they didn’t want to.

I don’t say this to minimize your experience, just to say that there a lot of teachers who try to inspire kids to read as well, and maybe that needs to be followed. I’m not sure what the protocol is. I’m sorry that you didn’t have that experience.

I read many of the nominated fiction and I thought Hello Beautiful was the best in the list. In the middle of ‘The Wishing Game’ though. I’m going to wait until I finish that to vote.

I enjoyed that as well and was happy to see it there.

This could be solved if they made the opening round shorter and the final round longer though I think.

In my favourite category I’ve read 7 of the nominees, 5 in the debut category, and I don’t even read that much (23 books this year). I think that’s a fair amount to vote and simply shorten the list.

I’m sure I could probably make a go of reading most finalists if I had the full two weeks. But it’s just a couple days after that which is not really fair. I don’t vote but I’m sure some do.

Also, some of the best books I read this year aren’t even on there

I just finished ‘The Last Letter’ and also thought it was rated way too high. While I loved her writing style in terms of the romance, she had way too much tragedy added purely for shock value that I didn’t enjoy it.

Not sure I could read anything else by this author. Her random tragedies lead to me just not enjoying the book.