Freebie Friday
First of all, thanks to everyone who participated in our first Freebie Friday!
Please keep us updated on how your reads are going, since I hadn't heard of most of the books you'd mentioned, and wow! You guys have some diverse tastes.
Me? I'm reading Breaking Back by James Blake. I love tennis, and I have had the biggest, girliest crush on him since Pat Rafter left the ATP to be with his family or something. You're lucky I didn't draw big sparkly glitter hearts all around his picture and include it in this post.
And in case you're curious, the title refers to breaking your opponent's serve during a match, not actually maiming him. With my zombie track record, I know it could go either way.
And so, without further ado, and picked completely by random courtesy of my friend Mary -- have you read her Top Chef reviews? They're just dandy. -- the very first Freebie Friday winner is ...
Joe F.!
So Joe, I'm glad you're enjoying Saturday, and I hope you enjoy Good Book, as well.
Everyone else, fear not! You have another chance to win right now! Just let us know what you're reading, and how you're liking it!
This week's prize: Fool, by Christopher Moore. Shakespeare fans -- and more specifically, King Lear fans -- you'll appreciate this one. The story follows Lear's jester, Pocket, as he watches the royal family disintegrate and attempts to put it back together, with a few assassinations thrown in.
Comments
I'm 101 pages into Getting Old Is A Disaster by Rita Lakin. It started out tedious in that too-cutesy, contrived sort of way and is even more annoying now. It goes back to the library tomorrow.
Posted by: Eve | March 27, 2009 1:49 PM
Eve, I should be so lucky. I'm reading A Pigeon and a Boy by Meir Shalev for my book group. It's translated from Hebrew and probably suffers from that, but more infuriating is the way the voice skips around. I will dutifully finish it.
Posted by: Dave | March 27, 2009 1:56 PM
I'm on page 198 of SECRETS TO HAPPINESS by Sarah Dunn and it's okay. There are a lot of characters to keep track of and a lot of angst in this one.
Posted by: Kathy | March 27, 2009 2:11 PM
I'm just over halfway through "The Little Giant of Aberdeen County". This book has some rave reviews, but I'm having a hard time getting into it.
Posted by: BAC | March 27, 2009 2:14 PM
I'm finally getting around to reading Stephen Jay Gould's Rock of Ages. It's a great read and very interesting...but I need to head back to the library and get some fiction!
Posted by: Lia | March 27, 2009 2:59 PM
I'm reading Burried Strangers by Leighton Gage. I love it! I read his Blook of the Wicked and just really like his style of writing. He keeps the action up and it feels like watching a really good movie.
Posted by: Shoshana | March 27, 2009 3:08 PM
As I think about it - actually, I went to BCPL's site to be sure - I've read some of Christopher Moore's work. I read You Suck, his vampire story and Lamb his childhood-of-Christ as told by His best friend, Biff. Lear, huh? I saw Lee J. Cobb (he's dead) play Lear at Lincoln Center about 40 years ago. Cobb played mad in a big way.
Posted by: Eve | March 27, 2009 3:33 PM
I'm reading "Londonstani" by Gautam Malkani. It's like Nick Hornby on crack.
Posted by: Brian | March 27, 2009 4:58 PM
Just started The Map Thief by Heather Terrell, a suspense novel about priceless 15th century maps used by explorers Admiral Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty in China and by Vasco de Gama of Portugal, maps which a 21st century antiques hunter from New York is trying to find. I always enjoy historical facts mixed in with good storytelling.
Posted by: Harvee Lau | March 27, 2009 5:31 PM
I'm reading Fatal Light - the 20th anniversary re-release of a Vietnam war classic. It's beautifully written and horribly sad.
Posted by: Lisa | March 27, 2009 8:33 PM
I just started reading Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith. This novel was published online, serialized daily in 100 chapters (from September through February) in the Guardian.co.uk. Here's a link to the page which provides links to each of the 100 chapters: http://tiny.cc/nQab5
There are also podcasts (read by Andrew Sachs, who played Manuel in Fawlty Towers) of all the chapters. If you need a bedtime story, you're in luck!
Posted by: Gail Farrelly | March 27, 2009 8:56 PM
This sounds like fun! I just found your blog so I missed last week. I'm almost finished with The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. I've only recently started reading his books and have found them to be unusual but clever.
Posted by: Wrighty | March 28, 2009 1:34 AM
Hounding the Pavement ~ Judi McCoy.
Posted by: Diane | March 29, 2009 5:30 PM