Turns out our winner already owns the book that we were giving away.
So this is your chance to win Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself.
Leave a comment here telling us what you think is the best literary love letter.
Basically, what book is your favorite book about LOVE?
I'll announce the winner on Monday, February 25th. (THEN, the Well Read Fish will go on hiatus for a short while).
8 comments:
Anna Karenina. Leave it to Russian literature to show you how love can destroy your family, drive you completely insane and make you throw yourself under a train. Ah...l'amour.
Oh man. The Book Thief. Hands down the Book Thief. Liesel and Rudy!!! I need to re-read this book immediately. It's THAT good.
I just finished reading and listening to the short story "A Day" by William Trevor, read by Jhumpha Lahiri. It's such a heart wrenching story with so many beautiful layers, and you can feel this woman's love for her husband in such a sad and profound way.
That's a tough one - aren't most books really about love?
Can you go wrong with Jane Eyre, Pride & Prejudice, Gone with the Wind...any of the classics?
"Bang The Drum Slowly" is one of my favorite books and tells the story of a specail kind of bond between a pitcher and a catcher, and the unique friendship that is created when we lean on one another. Not a traditional love story by any stretch of imagination.
I hate to admit this but I really enjoyed reading, "Eat, Pray, Love." It was the right time for me to be reading this woman's story. I could relate to the risk she took and the need to figure out how to be truthful with herself and once she really was honest about who she was could love herself and THEN was able to love others. It's been at least 6 or 7 years since I've read the book and can still remember stifling laughter while reading it on a plane - it was me but I'd never had the courage to be that honest about it.
This is a tough category and I don't know that I have found "the one" yet. But I really liked "Evidence of Things Unseen" by Marianne Wiggins. Radiation, language, love, photography, it has everything.
@Ronit - I have that book! It's in a pile of books bought long ago, but relegated to the back of the shelf. Now I will definitely pick it up!
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