The Big LitWit Fit: the winners
Thank you for telling us what you’ve been reading. We went through the lists and tried to match readers with books they might enjoy.
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday (now a film starring Ewan MacGregor) – lestat
I Never Liked You, a comic book by Chester Brown – Taribong
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides – bottlerocket, because you’re reading David Foster Wallace and one of the protagonists is supposedly based on him.
Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak in the new translation by Pevear and Volokhonsky – mcmorco
The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith (creator of Ripley; lots of anomie, sociopaths, people getting away with bloody murder) – Momelia
The Life of an Unknown Man by Andrei Makine – maelynda
When the Nines Roll Over by David Benioff – tfkjw (It’s an old copy so we threw in some review copies.)
Monstress, a short story collection by Lysley Tenorio (Fil-American) – johnbristol6
Till I End My Song, last poems by famous poets, selected by Harold Bloom – Jen
The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (slightly read) – lionheart147
Camus, A Romance by Elizabeth Hawes – ruthd
Spymistress, a biography of WWII spy Vera Atkins – jepotskie
The Millennium Trilogy – Ellizoid
The Accident by Ismail Kadare – go_light
The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips – hastydevil
The Last Station by Jay Parini – siege16
The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht (Cat not included) – eraser
Fantastic Women, an anthology of fantastic tales – Paul Bryan
Zsa Zsa Zaturnnah the bestselling superhero komiks by Carlo Vergara and Si Crispin, a spinoff from Rizal’s Noli me tangere by Tony Perez – gigics
Everything You Know by Zoe Heller (Author of Notes on a Scandal; you mentioned Dame Judi Dench) – ruth
If you’ve already read the book, give it away.
Claim your prizes at the Customer Service Counter of National Bookstore in Power Plant Mall, Rockwell, Makati, starting on Wednesday, 28 March 2012. They will be filed under your username. The books will be there for 3 months. You don’t have to claim the book personally, you can send someone.
And if you don’t like the book, give it away.
The Weekly LitWit Challenge is brought to you by our friends at National Bookstore.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
March 26th, 2012 at 09:08
Wow! Thank you very much. :D
March 26th, 2012 at 10:53
fyi ms jz >> http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120325-james-cameron-mariana-trench-challenger-deepest-returns-science-sub/?source=link_fb20120324news-deepseasurface
March 26th, 2012 at 11:18
It seems I’ve won Fantastic Women and Camus…
winner to be announced
March 26th, 2012 at 11:26
WOW! I missed this. It pays to browse during the weekends. I’d love to have a copy P&V’s translation of Doctor Zhivago (lucky winner!). I would just take advantage of the 20% discount at NBS. I already bought Anna Karenina (P&V) a few days ago.
I’d love to share the top 5 of the 15 books that I’ve read this year even though the deadline is over. I just want to share, that’s all. :)
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz
number9dream by David Mitchell
The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
March 26th, 2012 at 12:40
Just like angus25, I missed this too!
“If you’ve already read the book, give it away.” – I’m willing to adopt a book! :-)
I’m through with “A Feast for Crows” by GRR Martin. Now I’m reading the following:
1. Morgan’s Passing. Anne Tyler
2. A Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
3. A Dance with Dragons, GRR Martin
March 26th, 2012 at 12:46
Thanks, Jessica. I already have Middlesex and now this. I just have to get Virgin Suicides after I’ve read both. You once wrote virgin suicides is an OK book.
March 26th, 2012 at 13:36
Yaaaay! Thanks, Jessica! :)
March 26th, 2012 at 14:03
Somebody from this site gave me Patricia Highsmith’s Mermaids on the Golf Course on my last birthday. I grew rather fond of her kind of writing. It lacked humor, but it made up with some very curious storytelling.
I Wikipediad The Tremor of Forgery, and it has one homo Danish painter in the story. I am now looking forward to it.
Thanks for the book Madame! Muahness from Pasig Cirehhh!
March 26th, 2012 at 18:04
Excited to read Kadere (after a bit of Googling). Suits my taste, thanks!
March 26th, 2012 at 18:46
Congrats sa mga nanalo! Like Jules, I am willing to adopt a book, hehehe.
March 26th, 2012 at 20:41
“And so the book becomes a history of 20th-century Russia masquerading as simple, romantic novel. Yet this is also its strength. What starts out as an intimate account bursts out into something more ambitious and universal. Ultimately it’s a haunting story, beautifully told,” an excerpt from the review by The Guardian of the book I’ve just won. Thank you very much, Jessica.
March 26th, 2012 at 21:09
For his last birthday, I gave someone from this site a Patricia Highsmith short story collection because I just knew he’d love the psychotic population of that book. I hope na-entertain sya! Hehe.
Thanks, Jessica!
March 26th, 2012 at 22:03
Like jules, I too am willing to adopt any of your unwanted books. Or exchange them for one of mine, either way.
I barely had time to read this year because I was up to my neck in field studies and research proposals. I only managed to finish three books: two of them were mysteries, and the third was a self-help book about relationships. (Granted, it’s a hilarious self-help book with interesting literary dissections of The Bell Jar and To the Lighthouse, but still a self-help book.)
Not to mention that I’m still upset about misplacing my copy of Personal History by Katherine Graham. Once again: Oh well.
March 26th, 2012 at 22:27
Yey, got the complete set! To give back, i’ll pass my copy of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for anyone willing to pick it up at Seattle’s Best Valero.
March 26th, 2012 at 22:40
Sayang at hindi ko naabutan ang “book raffle.” David Benioff’s short story collection When the Nines Roll Over (which I bought for only P20 in NBS book bin) is a nice book. “Merde for Luck” sa nakakuha! Congrats!
March 26th, 2012 at 23:22
Wonderful! Thanks.
March 27th, 2012 at 00:07
Awesome! One of the reviews said it’s “the very-good-verging-on-excellent debut collection from San Francisco’s Lysley Tenorio.” I think I’ll enjoy this one, thanks very much! :)
March 27th, 2012 at 09:28
Awesome! Thanks a lot, Jessica! :)
April 4th, 2012 at 02:11
Thanks, Jessica! By the way, I’m sending someone to pick up the book for me since I live in Davao. Do they need any identity verification of some sort? :)