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

[mrkgnao.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...is that the one that contains the immortal flyte: "at least I haven't been bummed by a troll?" Oh wait, that's Grettir's Saga I think...

[jholloway.livejournal.com]

Also Njal's Saga. The implication that someone was getting teh buttsecks from a troll was actually a standard form of Icelandic insult, apparently.