{"id":6449,"date":"2011-09-28T14:59:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T18:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=6449"},"modified":"2016-07-08T15:25:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T19:25:26","slug":"arrival-and-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2011\/09\/28\/arrival-and-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrival and Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"

My wife and I are thrilled to announce the arrival of our third child (and our third son). He was born Monday evening, and\u00a0everyone\u00a0is doing great. Today we are all home enjoying some rest time, and I thought I’d get on here briefly to celebrate with you all. To mark this occasion, it’s time to give away a couple of books.<\/p>\n

This “celebration” is not sponsored by any publisher.\u00a0I\u00a0am promoting two of my favorites: New Directions and NYRB Classics. So fantastic are the books these two publishers release annually that I am quite confident even if I read books only from their lists I would be satisfied. I would love to give away a brand new copy of one\u00a0books from each of\u00a0their lists. So, here is the basic outline of the giveaway:<\/p>\n

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  1. Leave a comment.<\/li>\n
  2. In the comment list one New Direction title and one NYRB Classics title from the lists provided below.<\/li>\n
  3. I will draw two names at random on the night of Saturday, October 1. One name will get its New Directions choice, and the other\u00a0its NYRB Classics choice.<\/li>\n
  4. I will ship anywhere, so this is open to international readers. If you have way too many books already, please enter anyway; if you win you can choose to donate your book to, say, a library.<\/li>\n
  5. If the book the winner chooses is for any reason not available for me to purchase, I reserve the right to request the winner choose another book or forfeit (I don’t anticipate this happening because all of these books should be readily available).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Below find the lists. I have chosen both older and recent books from New Directions and NYRB Classics. For example, Helen DeWitt’s Lightning Rods<\/em> is hot off the press and I haven’t read it yet. Others I have reviewed and have recommended many times here since this blog began (which was, incidentally, just a few weeks before the birth of my second son).<\/p>\n

    From New Directions, please choose one of the following books and leave a comment:<\/p>\n