Sheila Heti’s new novel tells us about the friendship of two Canadian women. Described as “A raw, startling, genre-defying novel of friendship, sex, and love in the new millennium—a compulsive read that’s like “spending a day with your new best friend”  from the Bookforum. Read The New Yorker review here.  Buy the book from Amazon or at Book Depository. Eligibility: Must have a Kindle or a Kindle app. Please read rules here before joining.  Format: Kindle E-Book ISBN-10: 0805094725 Deadline: August 28, 2012 15:00:00 (GST) UTC/GMT +4 hours CLOSED Question: The novel documents the friendship between two women, Sheila, the playwright and an artist. What is the name of Sheila’s friend? I selected this post to be featured on my blog’s page at Book Blogs. Winner: Jenny C

Sheila Heti’s new novel tells us about the friendship of two Canadian women. Described as “A raw, startling, genre-defying novel of friendship, sex, and love in the new millennium—a compulsive read that’s like “spending a day with your new best friend”  from the Bookforum.

Read The New Yorker review here. 

Buy the book from Amazon or at Book Depository.

Eligibility: Must have a Kindle or a Kindle app. Please read rules here before joining. 

Format: Kindle E-Book ISBN-10: 0805094725

Deadline: August 28, 2012 15:00:00 (GST) UTC/GMT +4 hours CLOSED

Question: The novel documents the friendship between two women, Sheila, the playwright and an artist. What is the name of Sheila’s friend?

I selected this post to be featured on my blog’s page at Book Blogs.
Winner: Jenny C
Julian Barnes’  The Sense of an Ending is my first read this 2012. This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he’d left all this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider a variety of things he thought he’d understood all along, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and emotional depth and sophistication, The Sense of an Ending is a brilliant new chapter in Julian Barnes’s oeuvre. - Book Cover Question: Last year, 2011, Julian Barnes won this prize for The Sense of an Ending. What is it? Eligibility: Eligible countries are listed here. Please read rules here before joining. Format: Kindle ONLY, English ASIN: B004YWKKEG Deadline: January 31, 2012 15:00:00 (GST) UTC/GMT +4 hours

Julian Barnes’  The Sense of an Ending is my first read this 2012.

This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he’d left all this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider a variety of things he thought he’d understood all along, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and emotional depth and sophistication, The Sense of an Ending is a brilliant new chapter in Julian Barnes’s oeuvre.

- Book Cover

Question: Last year, 2011, Julian Barnes won this prize for The Sense of an Ending. What is it?

Eligibility: Eligible countries are listed here. Please read rules here before joining.

Format: Kindle ONLY, English ASIN: B004YWKKEG

Deadline: January 31, 2012 15:00:00 (GST) UTC/GMT +4 hours