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The quote from the blogger's father is all kinds of awesome. Legolas Send a noteboard - 17/10/2011 10:26:52 PM
Quoting it for those who can't be bothered to read the whole thing:

“They’ve got enough gall to be divided into three parts.”

Anybody who can work in a punny Classical reference into a sentence while still being relevant is pretty cool in my book.
Basically, the awards committee made a fubar over the phone, and the person taking notes on the shortlist of nominations misheard Chime as Shine. This error was "corrected" by having a shortlist of 6 instead of 5 books, which all sounds fine.

I'm kind of with Tom, actually... go for the short pain, admit you fucked up and take the book off the shortlist immediately.
However, the awards chairman has since asked the author of Shine to withdraw her book from the competition "to preserve the integrity of the awards". What? How on earth does that make anything better?

That is a fairly pathetic solution. Either you man up and bite the bullet, or you don't and leave the six nominees. This "solution" is just sad.
Apparently the author is being all kinds of amazingly classy about this, but naturally Twitter and the blogosphere are up in arms.

Naturally.

Also, am I the only one who read the post title, went "huh, didn't know the American basketball association tried to censor books now, must be a book about homosexuality in the NBA", and was then disappointed that it wasn't? :P
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The latest scandal in the world of publishing: NBA asks Lauren Myracle to withdraw her book. Rebekah - 17/10/2011 07:24:12 PM 1286 Views
That does sound like quite an extraordinary screw-up. Camilla - 17/10/2011 07:33:56 PM 908 Views
The book obviously wouldn't have been on the list. Cut it, don't apologize, tell people to fuck off Tom - 17/10/2011 08:11:15 PM 833 Views
The quote from the blogger's father is all kinds of awesome. Legolas - 17/10/2011 10:26:52 PM 1089 Views
In fact I'm now far more tempted to read her books than Lauren Myracle's... Legolas - 17/10/2011 11:02:50 PM 990 Views
the quote is from the book Cheaper by the Dozen The Wandering Gambler - 18/10/2011 03:44:32 AM 907 Views
Wow, that's a great quote. I'm afraid I'm going to have to steal it now. *NM* Praziquantel - 18/10/2011 07:40:34 AM 418 Views
Yeah, I was confused that the NBA was focusing on a book and not on... itself. Gher - 18/10/2011 06:24:41 PM 1026 Views
the first fuck up was the mix up, the second was not to immediately apologise to the the author, but Foxhead - 18/10/2011 01:27:52 PM 1042 Views
I'm with Tom on this. Stephen - 18/10/2011 01:47:49 PM 837 Views
That's a big FU, but she didn't do the right thing either... DomA - 18/10/2011 02:23:38 PM 816 Views
That makes no sense. Why should she withdraw her book? Legolas - 18/10/2011 07:03:23 PM 969 Views
Side question- Are these awards publicly voted for, or is it some commmitee who makes the choice? Stephen - 18/10/2011 02:30:49 PM 809 Views
It's a juried award Larry - 19/10/2011 04:07:07 AM 859 Views
Like Legolas, I was thinking of the less well known NBA. Joel - 18/10/2011 04:08:18 PM 1117 Views
I think her reply should go something like this. MightyYT - 18/10/2011 08:03:23 PM 981 Views
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