Mouroir

Mouroir
by Breyten Breytenbach
250 pages
Literary Fiction
Archipelago Books (April 1, 2009)

Breyten Breytenbach is not a man who stays away from causing a wave or making a ripple. But he seems more likely to be driven toward throwing himself into the water as a cannon ball to get things rolling. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa. While attending University of Cape Town he became a committed opponent to apartheid. When he was just under twenty he moved to France. When he went to South Africa for a visit he was captured and imprisoned for 7 years under the Terrorism Act, that is when he wrote The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist. Currently he divides his time between the US, Europe and Africa and is a professor of the graduate level creative writing at New York University. He is a poet, writer, painter and activist, he is known as "South Africa's most important poet of the sixties".

After reading Moriour I can see why he and his writing was important during that time. A time when race issues were flaming and life in South Africa was disjointed and hard. He does not write inside a neat box making sure that his readers understand every nuance and intonation. He concentrates on the message, but not wrapping it up pretty or even simply. Several times throughout the reading I would read a page and wonder what happened. I figured out soon that I was not meant to understand everything, just to gloat on the beauty of the richness in his plump words. If you enjoy artistic writing, poetic prose and an author who writes with a voice full of wisdom then for you Mouroir is a must read. You too will become captivated in its dream-like scenes and sequences, which will surround you even after the book is placed back on the shelf happily read.

I will leave you with a quote:

"For a long time the unfinished story haunted me. I wanted to be able to complete it because I was keen to fit it in with the other writings, get my characters in perspective, fill my notebook so as to be able to hand it in. One doesn't get any younger. The flesh starts riding you bareback, drags you down towards the sods" (p. 237)

(quote from Advanced Reading Copy, final book my contain changes and a different page listing)

Orbis Terrarum Challenge: 2009 South African Author

Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire (India)
Written by Vikas Swarup (novel) and Simon Beaufoy (screenplay)
Directed by Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan (co-director: India)
Awards, 8 Oscars as well as 71 other awards and 26 nominations (see here for complete list)
Released: 23 January 2009 (USA)

The Mumbai slums kid Jamal K. Malik (actor Dev Patel), possesses only the answers- nothing more. He is honest even if it will kill him despite his harsh life experiences. Jamal makes it to the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?". The film flashes back and forth between how he knows the answers, each being a gruesome experience (death, tyranny, betrayal) but each enables him to commit a fact to memory thus enabling him to answer another question correctly. Because of his success on the TV show his is thought to be a fraud, a cheat. For that reason he is interrogated, and with each blow any onlooker (as well as the interrogators) can see that this is no regular teen, his inner strength awes with a jaw-dropping force.

Love is a key element in Slumdog Millionaire. Jamal is loyal and faithful in his pursuit of one unattainable girl Latika (Actress Frieda Pinto)as children, as youths and still as teens. He encounters her over and over throughout their young lives only to have her taken from him just a second too soon. Are they meant to be, is it destiny?

I saw this movie almost a week ago and I can't stop thinking about it. I can't. I loved it on so many levels. I hated the violence, and it wasn't Hollywood violence, it was street kid raw gore. I disliked the villains in this film and that they made it their life goal to destroy Jamal, who I loved from the first second I saw him. As harsh as his past is, he becomes beautiful despite it, I am a believer. Oh, and the music is really fun!

Slumdog Millionaire easily earns a full-on 100% recommendation from me. I saw it in the theater and I will buy it when I see it out on DVD. My only slight warning is that if you can't handle violence, well you still should go, just be sure to cover your eyes, and go with someone who can nudge you when it is time to look again. It didn't bother me, but I was allowed to watch Die Hard as a 7-year-old. It is written: THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE MUST SEE.



Slumdog Millionaire trailer:





I reviewed this film as part of the Orbis Terarrum Film Challenge.

Miles from Nowhere

Miles from Nowhere
by Nami Mun
304 pages
fiction
Riverhead Books
Challenges: Orbis Terarrum, South Korea

Joon sees herself as a regular Korean girl until her father leaves her mother, then her mom ignores her- to the extent of not talking to her, acknowledging her and pretending to be dead. Obviously a cry for help that a very young girl can only handle for so long. Joon goes to find her dad and try to get him to return, he turns her down as greener pastures seem to be calling his name. Soon after that, out of desperation Joon runs away. Her life on the streets goes from dark to darker and then when you think it couldn't get any worse it goes to darkest.

There is plenty of sexual stuff, drugs, well really substance abuse of every type is discussed and abused in this book. Drug activity is high, very high, talk of shooting this, smoking that, cutting, being high, and all this as a young teen. Each time the reader can see the surface and almost feels allowed to come to breathe air, Joon dives down deeper to the despair of the reader.

Well, I don't know what that description does for you, but if you don't like reading the description, don't read Miles from Nowhere. However to its defense, it is different than any book that I have been able to finish to this day. Several times I just couldn't handle the intensity of its graphic nature and had to skip a page, but I kept coming back because Nami Mun is an amazing writer, really she is great, almost humorous at times.

I would love to read a lighter book by her, and really hope she chooses to go that route next time, more cultural and less mental illness-teen pregnancy-suicideish. Yes, so I did think her writing was very good, however not good enough for me to feel that I can recommend this with a clean conscience. I can't. I just say sit this one out and wait on what she brings to the table next time. That is my opinion anyway.

How do you do with books that carry too much gore for their own good? Have you had some that you think really excellent writing, but you just can't bring yourself to recommend them for their content?

Miles from Nowhere







Make sure you enter my current giveaway!!

Orbis Terrarum 2009

I am exceedingly proud to announce that today is the 1st of March, and the beginning of:

The Orbis Terrarum Challenge
Your mission, should you choose to accept: read 10 different books, written by 10 different authors, from 10 different countries in 10 months.

The Orbis Terrarum Film Challenge
This will be a blast and a great break from reading: this challenge is to watch 10 films, 10 different countries, by 10 different directors in the 10 months.

The Orbis Terrarum Bilingual Challenge
This challenge has several different options based on how bilingual you are, check out the link for the options, but really this is one that most would be able to stretch themselves to accomplish.

The Orbis Terrarum Poetry Challenge
In which you may consider yourself challenged to read 5 poems or poetry collections, by 5 different authors, from 5 different countries.


What do you think? I think it is time for you to join in!
This year the Orbis Terrarum Challenge (and all its other challenges) has its own blog, you'd better head yourself over there for some amazing insight into new worlds, new books and new friends!

Send me your addies!! Orbis Terrarum Prize Winners!

Orbis Terarum WINNERS!!!

1. raidergirl3
2. Corinne
3. Tricia
4. Myrthe
5. Veens
6. Katrina
7. Pratima
8. Richard (R-Lo)
9. Tammy
10. 3M
11. Trish
12. Ramya
13. Mrs. B.
14. Lynda
15. beastmomma



15 of you finished!!! 15 of you win bookie gifties for completing the OT challenge and being such great folks the whole way through :)

Please send me your addresses, pretty please. (by clicking on the email me tab under my header)

I need all the addresses by the 20th!! I am sending stuff on the 21st.

Orbis Terrarum Earns its own BLOG!!

The Orbis Terrarum Challenge just earned itself its very own blog! Yes, it was mostly that I sat down to work on links tonight to get all of your reviews in order by country and guess what!?! Mr. Linky is down. I decided since it was on my mind, why not do OT stuff anyway. So you have to head over!!! I will have Mr. Linkys up there soon.

Oh, and I need help....if any of you who did the challenge this year want to step on over and see what you think of the new mini-challenges that would be so cool. I would love advice on those. On everything really!! Head over and make sure to leave a comment or two.

You can get to it from now on by clicking on the Orbis Terrarum Tab above or going here. enjoy!

prizes for everyone!!!

Yes, but not just anyone....but yes everyone who has completed the Orbis Terrarum Challenge and does their wrap up post!!

Beastmomma, the insanely-cool-supa-woman from life from the belly of the beast has offered to help really make this conclusion a blast! She is offering to supplement my prizes, and had the idea to send a bookie prize to every single one of you who has completed the challenge and who does the wrap up post.

You still have time! If you need to finish a book, do it! If you need to write answers to my silly survey...do it! You have until midnight on the 15th, which is tomorrow to complete the challenge, the wrap up post, and adding your link to Mr. linky. You can do it! :) Good luck folks.

The bookie prizes will consist of books (of course), bookends, baskets for books, cookbooks...keep in mind that some items will be in gently used condition, and if that bugs you you don't need to participate if you don't want to.

Here is what your wrap up post needs to include
Here is where you can see some of the prizes I am offering

You must put the link to your wrap up post on my sweet Mr. Linky to be included in this prize fest!!!

PS if anyone else is feeling generous and wants to add in some prizes to winners...send me an email and you are certainly welcome to help!! :)

edit:
raidergirl has added to the prize loot:
"In the Country of Men" by Hisham Matar, set in Libya!

Tricia has added PS I Love You by Cecelia Ahern and Charity Girl by Georgette Heyer to the prize bucket as well!!! :)

orbis terrarum final deadline and prizes

The deadline for getting your lists of links and reviews to me is going to be the 15th, that gives you a week. I would love the survey answered, but more than anything I would like you to do a wrap up post with the links to all your OT reviews and paste your post link to the MR. linky here.

Then I will be able to compile a list of all the books that we jointly read and link to all of your reviews!!! Wouldn't that be cool!? Even if you didn't finish the challenge you are welcome to get me your links of the reviews you did complete.

Here are the three prize books:



I just thought of this, since some of you mentioned helping with prizes for next year...if you are interested (no pressure) you could send a well loved book or two on as well this time around. You could just let me know about it and I will post your titles as well, then either you could select your winner or I could and you'd send them out directly to the winner.

Anyone?

Happy reading!!

Orbis Terrarum Ended for 2008

Hey all you OT Challengers!!!

The Orbis Terrarum challenge ended on the 20th, (three days ago) I am not going to be too particular with the date, I just wanted people to not have to mess with finishing it up during the holidays. If you are really close, finish on up!

Here is what I am going to do, for those of you who have finished, I am going to add a MR. Linky below. And you will get an extra 5 entries for the final giveaway, which will be 3 books (as always slightly used, and I will have to get back to you with the titles, sorry but it is Christmas!).

Orbis Terrarum 2008 Challenge survey:

1.) What did you like about the challenge?
2.) What would you like to see change for next year?
3.) About the rules, or the non-existent rules...did you like that?
4.) Are you going to join us next year?
5.) Pretty please give me any suggestions for changes, the betterment of the challenge, or just anything that you would like to see changed for next year.
6.) Would you like the challenge to be more involved? What if we read books together sometimes? Would that interest you?
7.) would you be interested in helping somehow next year? How would you like to help?


Here is the low-down on how to enter yourself:
1.) each link to a book review you have on the give us a link to your travels mr. linky will count as one entry.

2.)A Wrap up post!!! each wrap up post that includes links to all your reviews,AND answers to the survey questions above, is worth additional 5 entries.
For the links to count you must include this information along with your link: book title, book author, country.

(wondering why it is worth so many??...because it will make my life so much easier if you do this, because I wanted to do a conglomerate of all the books that were read and links to all the bloggers that read them and their reviews.!!!)

Orbis Terrarum for 2009

Hey OT peeps!

We are going to be finishing up the time for the first Orbis Terrarum Challenge next month!! I know many of you have finished already. If you have a couple left, there is still plenty of time. Keep-a-readin'.

I am going to be hosting this challenge again next year for sure and I would like any suggestions you have. After the 20th of December, when the OT challenge is officially over I will have the last giveaway. All links to book reivews or thoguhts on the Mr. linky
will count as an entry, and at the end of the challenge I will ask you all some questions for the improvement of next year's challenge. You will also get an entry for giving me some answers and helping me make some great changes for next year. You can make suggestions now if you'd like, just comment below! I 'd love to hear what you think!!!!

Here is a glimpse at 2009's Orbis Terrarum challenge button, if you want to snag it already :)
I will start sign ups the month before we start reading, in March.

Orbis Terrarum Completed Countries Updated Map

Excellent reading OT challengers!!! There are still many countries to read, but we have made some huge progress!

Happy reading!

Orbis Terrarum Completed Books

I am going to update the map of completed countries for the Orbis Terrarum Challenge.
Make sure you add any of the books that you have read and are not currently up, onto the Links page.

YAY!!! You all are doing so great. Keep up the reading. We have two months to go!!! I am going to host this again next year. Be sure to let me know if you have any suggestions.

Memories of My Melancholy Whores

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Title: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pages: 109
Yearly Count: 69

When one old man turned ninety he decided to surround himself in the young love virgin. Gabriel Garcia Marquez takes the reader on a journey, a well written but somewhat naive journey into the realm of aging, virginity and what it all could cost.

To be quite frank I don't know why I read this book , other than that it was the only one of Gabriel Garcia Marquez there to choose from that I hadn't read. I didn't like it. However I could still see glimpses of the man who won the Nobel prize for Literature. This was his first book in ten years! It seems to me he would have had much more to say than what he said.

That is about as good as my review gets for this one, sorry folks...not a book for me.

Other blogger reviews of this book:
Fresh Ink Books

Have you read and reviewed this? What were your thoughts? Give me your link and I will add it here.

Orbis Terrarum completed travels :)

WOW, this is so cool! Check out this map ya'll :) The green countries are where we have been, the white where we haven't traveled yet. I posted a list below of all the countries with the ones we have been to and the ones we haven't, take a look and consider finding a book from a country that has not yet been read about.

The unchecked selections below are the ones that none of us OT peeps have read authors from yet, take a look and let me know if you would like to fill in some checks for us!!!! Happy travels :)

Alberta British Columbia Manitoba New Brunswick	Newfoundland Nova Scotia Northwest Territories Nunavut	Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec Saskatchewan Yukon
North America
Canada	Greenland	Mexico United States
Central America
Belize Costa Rica El Salvador	Guatemala Honduras	Nicaragua Panama
South America
Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia	Ecuador Falkland Islands French Guiana Guyana Paraguay	Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela
United Kingdom
Don't show individual UK terrritories
England Northern Ireland	Scotland	Wales
Europe
Albania Andorra Austria Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Faroe Islands Finland France Germany Gibraltar	Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway	Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom Vatican City
Asia
Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Burma Cambodia China East Timor Georgia Hong Kong	India Indonesia Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Laos Macau Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Nepal North Korea	Pakistan Philippines Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Taiwan Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Vietnam
Africa
Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Ivory Coast Democratic Republic of Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia	Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Republic of Congo	Reunion Rwanda Saint Helena Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Western Sahara Zambia Zimbabwe
Middle East
Bahrain Iran Iraq Israel Jordan	Kuwait Lebanon Oman Qatar	Saudi Arabia Syria United Arab Emirates Yemen
Australia
Don't show individual Australian terrritories
New South Wales Northern Territory Queensland	South Australia Tasmania	Victoria Western Australia
Oceania
Australia Cook Islands Federated States of Micronesia Fiji French Polynesia Marshall Islands	New Caledonia New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa	Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu
Caribbean
Anguilla Antigua & Barbuda Aruba Barbados Bermuda The Bahamas Cayman Islands Cuba Dominica	Dominican Republic Grenada Haiti Jamaica Martinique Netherlands Antilles Puerto Rico Saint Kitts and Nevis	Saint Lucia Saint Maarten Trinidad and Tobago Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Turks and Caicos Virgin Islands
Antarctica
Antarctica

winners!

Here are the OT winners!
92. Beastmomma (Remembering Babylon--Australia)
156. Bart's Bookshelf (Persepolis - Iran)
127. raidergirl3(Out Stealing Horses - Norway)

Beastmomma gets to pick first, since I drew her name first, then Bart, and then raidergirl3 will get the third book. Also, I will need your addresses so click on the "email me" button beneath my header and send them to me :)
Congrats to you three!!! Way to read you all!

We now have 164 expeditions to places all around the world. Sit tight and I'll get another map up of our travels, and I will also post which nations we are missing just in case you'd like to help us fill up our map.

A Bottle in the Gaza Sea

Title: A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
Author: Valerie Zenatti
Pages: 160
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Yearly Count: 36

Far removed from the conflict in the Middle East it is easy to live day by day not thinking of the dangerous situation that mothers, fathers, children and grandparents live through daily in many places on the other side of the ocean. It is easy to forget the freedoms women don't have, the childless babies and the violence. However in my drive to feel more, to know more and keep all peoples close to me. I believe education difies prejudice and so I read on.

A Bottle in the Gaza Sea is a book of two hopefuls in a sea of killing, prejudice, and a tradition of violence between the Palestinians and the jews, from Jerusalem and the Gaza strip. Tal, a teen from Jerusalem wills to find peace, and longs for a glint of hope, of life from the other side. She puts a letter in a bottle and asks her brother, who is a soldier to put it in the Gaza Sea. Naim, is what comes of it, a bright Palestinian teen topped off with sarcasm. They email back and forth. Facades are broken down, lies made to truths, and through their friendship hope comes to them and those around them.

I genuinely enjoyed reading A Bottle in the Gaza Sea, Zenatti did an excellent job with the witing and the content of the book. The characters are fully believable, lovable and unforgettable. I hesitate to mention that this is designed as a young adult read, and that because of that you would steer clear, feeling that maturity and wisdom would most likely be lacking. I can promise you that those assumptions are wrong. The young Tal and her Gaza friend, Naim are young in age, but it is easy to be captivated by them, as they both portray the losses of their peoples at the hands of each others people. I was involved, interested and Zenatti spoke to me. I highly recommend this book, it gives all the emotion without the descriptions of blood and guts ( but does not hide that that is everywhere). A Bottle in the Gaza Sea is a realistic hope for peace, a dream of a future life of freedom, no matter how many generations the war has already gone on for.

Quotes:

The two of us don't have much luck: we were born in the twentieth century- the bloodiest century in history, as Rosebush reminded us yet again yesterday.: Two world wars, the Soviet empire dominating part of the world +conflicts pretty much all over the place with increasingly sophisticated weapons= hundreds of millions of deaths. 'It's just maths,' he added with an almost sadistic smile (p. 34).

'We choose none of the things that determine out lives: not the way we look or where we're born or our parents. None of them. We just have to cope with all the things we haven't chosen and which make us who we are.' My father told me that last year, when I was having trouble with just being me (p. 132).

Other blogger reviews for A Bottle in the Gaza Sea:
Corinne at The Book Nest: A Bottle in the Gaza Sea

If you have read this book, I'd love to link to your review.

100 reviews for OT!!!

Orbis Terrarum Challengers, we have just hit 100 books that we have read (jointly) for this challenge!!! Craziness!!! You all have done some great reading, here is out latest map...it is looking really green, GO CHALLENGERS!!!

The Kite Runner

Title: The Kite Runner
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Yearly Count: 33
Pages: 372


Da bomb! That would be the summary of this review, but if you want the review in more than two words here you go:
The Kite Runner is a book of boyhood, friendship, caste systems, love, sons and fathers, war and travels to new lands, new unknowns...a book journey that will rip you raw of feeling, and then put you back together again, not the same, but changed. It is Powerful, honest, ravishing and fully lovable.

Really, if you have not read this book yet you need to. I waited a long time, too long, and I will not forgive myself for doing that. However when I grabbed up The Kite Runner I finished it within a couple of days, because at every point when I was given a moment to read I did. I am always thrilled a to find a book that practically reads itself to me, and this book by Hosseini was that, when I would set it down I would think about when the next time was when I would have a couple minutes to return to it, and the during the day I would constantly catch myself thinking about it, about Afghanistan, about Amir and Hassan, about their fathers and their lives, so different from mine. I traveled there in my mind, to an imaginary place, all the components of the book worked together to form my image of my own Afghanistan. I know it is not right, it is not what it really is...but in imagining I feel closer, like I have a friend from there who has told me about it.

The introspective aspect of The Kite Runner was incredible, I enjoyed the personal journey the men and women in this book were on. They live life in a fragrant honestly that attached me to them for life. I am connected, with their desires, their downfalls, their hopes and dreams and when they laid it all bare and allowed for judgment to flow it did as well. I hated Amir just as much as I loved him, I saw myself in different aspects of different people throughout the whole book. This is one that I will cherish and will re-read when the time comes. There is not enough that I can say about this book, just not enough. If you have read it you know why, and if you haven't you must find out.

And I know that for sure I will read A Thousand Splendid Suns...CAN'T WAIT!

Some links:
Kite Runner on Wikipedia
Khaled Hosseini Wikipedia

If you have read this email, or comment me your link and I will add it!

Love Marriage by V.V Ganeshananthan

Title: Love Marriage
Author: V.V. Ganeshananthan
Publisher: Random House
Pages: 302
Yearly Count: 30

A marriage, the marriage between two people and two families can be seen differently by each person involved, and also for the viewers as well. A marriage means many things, to each of us it means something different. V.V. Ganeshananthan makes her point that marriage is the combination of two very diverse family trees, which will form a bond and belong to both host trees at the same time, while becoming a tree in itself as well.
In Love Marriage, we follow Yalini, a young woman born in the US to parents from Sri Lanka. Her roots, hidden throughout her life come to the surface and mean much more when her dying uncle comes to be with them as he passes. Yalini learns more about her family from him than her parents have ever spoken, but with what she hears she will then have to make the choice to love her uncle despite of his past, or to embrace him and his past. Filled with Sri Lankan politics and the waring Tamil Tigers and Sinhalese, seen from a distance as Yalini tries to make sense of the war her parents tried to have her not know.

Ganeshananthan does an excellent job with the politics, with the cultural aspects of it, and I followed it all (even though I did not know anything about the situation in Sri Lanka previous to reading this book!). The one thing that seemed stilted, or awkward was the writing style, but it was not so much so as to ruin the beautiful story that the author told. Her worlds crashed together and she was there to tell of what she saw, what she felt and all that led up to that point. An enjoyable read, informative and full of life...I'd read it all over again!

Quotes:
What is a marriage, a union of two people, or of them and their families as well? Ganeshanathan says that it is the second, a union of all involved, including each others families.
"Reverse a family tree, and branches of blood are whittled down to one person. I am composed of all the women and men who came before me. I am the result of many Marriages" (p. 239).

The power of this quote, and that it rings true over and over when waring peoples or nations have fought for generations. No one knows truly why the fight should go on, just that it does, and that it will, about the conflict she writes, "If you ask someone else, they will tell you a different story, say that the Tamils were making it all up, that there was no discrimination, that those cultures were equal before the Tigers began killing people, including their own. Ask another, and another. None of the stories will be absolutely complete, but their tellers will be absolutely certain. This is how we make war" (p. 119).

To learn more about the author, and the book visit V.V. Ganeshanthan at her website

Also reviewed by:
The Literate Housewife
Fyrefly's book blog

OT giveaway...RESULTS ARE IN!!!!

67,29,82
So what does that mean???
It means that
67. Nymeth (Lolita - Russia/USA)
29. Ramya (Purple Hibiscus - Nigeria)
82. (this was from the meme, I just numbered them in order, and this was the one that was #82)

katrina said...

My answers are here, it'll be good to look at other peoples thoughts. I enjoyed reading raidergirls answers, will be good to see some more.
http://katrinasreads.blogspot.com/2008/05/orbis-terrarum-challenge-meme.html

Naymeth won: A History of Love

Ramya won: Mrs. Dolloway

katrina won: Family Matters

winners: email your addresses to me at bethany (dot) canfield (at) gmail (dot) com. I will send these puppies out soon! hope you enjoy!!!!!