Free book in return for writing a review you probably would have written anyway

[strange_complex]

Like practically everyone else on LJ today, I have just signed up for Blog a Penguin Classic, and will shortly be receiving a copy of The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne to review.

I'm actually really pleased about this, because I absolutely love The Marble Faun, and have long thought I should try another of Hawthorne's oeuvres. Plus, I am blogging every book I read this year anyway, so fulfilling Penguin's requirement that I write a review within 6 weeks shouldn't be too hard. What are they going to do if I don't, anyway - send round angry Emperor Penguins to peck my door down?

Comments

[kantti.livejournal.com]

Beowulf. Which I wouldn't have read anyway, but probably should. Yay internet.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Wow - in the original, or a modern translation?

[kantti.livejournal.com]

If it's the original my review might be rather more brief than otherwise! The email's a bit short on details, so I don't know, but I assume a translation.