Monday, September 29, 2008

WINNER of Mister Sandman by Barbara Gowdy


It's Giveaway Monday again at Fresh Ink Books.

Today my review copy of Mister Sandman by Barbara Gowdy is going to:


Some of the Nobel Prize winning author's works recommended by my readers:

The Good Earth***** by Pearl Buck

The Grapes of Wrath***** by John Steinbeck
Seize the Day***** by Saul Bellow

The Bluest Eye**** by Toni Morrison

The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock**** by T. S. Eliot (poetry)

Lord of the Flies** by William Golding (forced to read when too young to appreciate it)

The Plague by Albert Camus (owned but unread)
Blindness by José Saramago (owned but unread)

A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul (owned but unread)

A Turn in the South by V.S. Naipaul

Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Junglebook by Rudyard Kipling

(ratings are my own)

Feel free to leave comments, good book recommendations, questions, or opinions on books and reading-good, bad, or otherwise, on any post.

Thank you to every one of the 9 people who entered, and those who blogged about it, for your truly inspiring comments.

Please check my other giveaways. I have two every week. If it interests you to read them, At a Loss for Words by Diane Schoemperlen is open until midnight Wednesday, and the next giveaway will be for Men and Cartoons, a collection of short stories by Jonathan Lethem. It will be posted later today.

3 comments:

  1. Whoo-hoo! Thanks, Sandra! I'm glad to see you enjoyed The Bluest Eye too!

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  2. Sandra, I Love Your Blog! If you want to participate the link to my post is

    here

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