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My illustrious fellow Houston over at Indie Reader Houston has written an interesting and complimentary review of The Borrower by Rebecca Makkai (a book I have not read but am interested in). It’s about Lucy, a children’s librarian, and her patron and uber-booklover, 10-year-old Ian, and the road trip they undertake without his parents’ permission. The book sounds interesting; go check it out over there. But wait! There’s more! Cassandra is hosting a giveaway of this book, as well, and I think it’s a fascinating concept. I shall reproduce the concept here, below. But you have to go visit HER blog to enter. I’m interested to see what you have to submit! C’mon, do it!

The concept is this. Firstly, an excerpt from the book:

Thus Nabokov lived between Gogol and Hemingway, cradled between the Old World and the New; Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser and Thomas Hardy were stacked together, not for their chronological proximity but because they all reminded me in some way of dryness (though in Dreiser’s case I think I was focused mostly on his name); George Eliot and Jane Austen share a stack with Thackeray because all I had of his was Vanity Fair, and I thought that Becky Sharp would do best in the presence of ladies (and deep down I worried that if I put her next to David Copperfield, she might seduce him). Then there were various stacks of contemporary authors who I felt would get along together at cocktail parties, and there were at least three stacks of books I personally loathed but held onto just in case someone asked me to loan them a page-turner about a family of circus-performers, or an experimental novel about a time-traveling nun.

And then Cassandra says,

I will purchase a copy of The Borrower and give it away to the person who submits (via email) a picture of the most creative book stack and story that goes along with it. Depending on how many people enter the contest, I may be able to find something bookish for all of you.

She’s accepting entries through next Tuesday, July 19, kids. Get crackin’!

But Cassandra, I spot a problem. How are we all going to share and appreciate the pictures and stories? You will share them with us, yes? Please please…

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