Fate can take many forms. For Henry, it arrives in an envelope from a stranger containing a story by Flaubert, a play featuring two characters named Beatrice and Virgil, and a note signed “Henry,” with an address in the same city. From the moment Henry finds the address and steps into a taxidermist’s shop, a place unlike anywhere he has ever been, his life is changed. In this extraordinary feat of storytelling, Yann Martel poses enduring questions about life and art, truth and deception, responsibility and complicity.
Doesn’t this story sound intriguing? I haven’t had a chance to start it yet but guess what? I ended up with two Advance Review Copies so I would love to pass along one of my copies to someone who’d love to read this book.
If you are interested leave me a comment, tell me what’s one book you want to read this summer (just because I’m nosey), and I’ll have a drawing for the book later this week.
Now, I’m off to rest. We had a busy weekend and tonight we just got back from a bike ride. That was tons of fun but I’m worn out so time to hang out with some books. More book talk tomorrow.
Hi! I’d love to be entered! What do I want to read this summer? Hmmm…so many things! I want to read Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s The Shadow of the Wind, Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, by Maile Meloy. That’s to start with! Yikes, my list is sooooo long! What are you planning to read this summer?
I’m not sure summer is over going to make it to my neck of the woods this year. Spring is sure struggling to make a showing. Rain or shine, I guess it will still be June, July and August and I will surely be reading. On my list: The Help, Pomegrante Soup, and something by Fannie Flagg, Mary Stewart and Terry Pratchett.
Please enter me into this draw. The books I have lined up for this summer are the third in the Stieg Larsson trilogy; I can’t wait for this one. Alan Bennett’s ‘A Life Like Other People’s; Vikram Seth’s ‘The Goldon Gate’; and ‘Dance Night’ by Dawn Powell. Oh! I nearly forgot, Karen White’s ‘On Folly Beach’. Really good reading to look forward to.
I really want to read the new Maisie Dobbs! Actually, there is a long list of books I want to read, but the fact is Maisie’s name popped into my mind first which must mean something.
I’ve got a list of things I’d like to read this summer – Mudbound for my online book club, Little Women for my f2f bookclub, Wolf Hall, and the new Sarah Addison Allen book.
Please enter me, I want to read this one very much! 🙂 One book I’d like to read this summer, or reread I should say, is Austen’s Mansfield Park and I’d like to give the first Stieg Larsson book a go too.
I’d love to be entered to win the copy of Beatrice and Virgil.
I can’t wait to read the third and final installment in The Hunger Games series this summer.
I’d like to enter to win Martel’s book, too.
this summer? oh boy… definitely the Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, the latest Maise Dobbs, Titus Groan and Gormanghast, We Have to Talk about Kevin, At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream, and my usual reread of a Dickens (maybe Bleak House this year?).
I’d love the opportunity to read this one. I still haven’t read Life of Pi. I’m really looking forward to reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy this summer. pizzo underscore kathleen at yahoo dot com.
That does sound interesting.
I need to read Nefertiti this summer, I’ve had it sitting in my TBR and heard so many good things about it.
Wow, what an interesting premise really.
I am definitely going to read Who by Fire this summer. 🙂
Please do enter me for the drawing.