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

[jholloway.livejournal.com]

No, you were lucky. Once you skip the dull bits at the beginning, The Conquest of New Spain is actually very good. I mean, obviously, it's terribly sad, but also fascinating. At least, I thought so.

[mrkgnao.livejournal.com]

Bejesus, you're well read! I'm actually quite looking forward to it, despite the whinging (whinging seems de rigeur for these sort of things - "I signed up to get a free random book to read and it isn't something I expected, boo!). I'm hoping it'll expand my horizons a bit.

Did you go for it?

[jholloway.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got Kenilworth. Hopefully some buckles will be swashed.