Category: goodies to go

Today I’d like to give away a copy of Jane Stevenson’s Good Women, a collection of three novellas. Publishers’ Weekly praised the author’s voices as “distinct,” adding that “her eye for detail [is] keen, making these short forays into ordinary lives anything but.”

The first person to email me the title of the three novellas wins the book. Please include your mailing address, so we can both save time. Previous winners excluded, of course.

Update: The winner is Shanna G. from Portland, Oregon.

This week I’m giving away a copy of Alice Greenway’s White Ghost Girls, which was long-listed for the Orange Prize on Monday. You can read more about the American, Edinburgh-based author in this Scotsman article. A review of the book appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle in February.

The first person to email me gets the book. Please use the subject line “White Ghost Girls,” and please also include your mailing address. Previous winners excluded.

This week, I’m giving away a copy of Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love, edited by Anne Fadiman, and with contributions from Luc Sante, Patricia Hampl, Vivian Gopnick, and many others. The first person to email me wins the book. Please use the subject line “Rereadings” in your email, and please also include your mailing address. Previous winners excluded.

Update: The winner is Ally R. from Austin, Texas.

This week, I’d like to give away a copy of Elias Khoury’s Gate of the Sun. You can read all about this remarkable new novel in this earlier post here at Moorishgirl.

The second person (sometimes, it pays to be second) to correctly answer this question gets the book: When and where was Elias Khoury born? Please use the subject line “Gate of the Sun” in your email, and please also include your mailing address. Previous winners excluded.

Update: The winner is Mohammed S. from Mississauga, Ontario.

This week I’m giving away a copy of James Meek’s The People’s Act of Love. Set in 1919 Siberia, the novel follows a gulag escapee who unwittingly wanders into a village where followers of a mystical Christian sect cohabit with Czech soldiers desparate to get home from the war.

The fifth (yes, fifth) person to correctly answer this question gets the book: What is the name of the Siberian town in which the story is set? Please use the subject line “Meek” in your email, and please also include your mailing address. Previous winners excluded.

Update: Pete A. from Joliet, Illinois has won the book.

This week, the LBC unveiled its winter Read This! selection, choosing Kristin Allio’s Garner. I’d like to give away a copy of this terrific book to a Moorishgirl reader. The third person (why third? why not?) to correctly answer this question wins the book: Which publisher released the novel? Please use the subject line “Garner” in your email, and please also include your mailing address. Previous winners excluded. And, while you’re at the LBC site, do check out the other nominations, which are announced all this week.

Update: The winner is Sarah R., from Gastonia, North Carolina.