Sweet Reading with TheBookJeanie If only I could be magically miniaturized and live in this delicious reading room. Gumdrop lamps, a library ladder made of cinnamon sticks, each book a tiny cake - a librarian's fantasy . . . Man Booker Prize 2014 The Man Booker Prize is awarded annually to the author of the best original novel written in the English language and published in the U.K. Previously limited to U.K. authors, this year the short list included novelists from around the English-speaking world including the American writer Karen Joy Fowler . We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves was reviewed in these pages last November and was described as "an exploration of a family, before and after a devastating loss: a time when decisions were made, rationalizations created, and relationships shattered." Congratulations to Karen Joy Fowler for being the first American writer to be nominated for the most prestigeous British litera...