Rebecca Reads

Equality 7-2521 lives in a dark futurist dystopia in Ayn Rand’s novella Anthem. He has no words for love or self, and being alone is a crime. Yet, as do characters in countless other dystopian novels, he still finds moments to write his story of discovery.
By itself, Anthem is slim – just 100 pages – [...]

In The Planets by Dava Sobel, one learns of the trivia and facts associated with each planet, as well as the moon and sun, in poetic terms. Scientist Dava Sobel, a New York Times bestselling author, shows that science can be beautiful and lyrical, not technical. Among other things, she tells of the mythology of [...]

Does anyone host a “Holiday Favorites” challenge? I haven’t seen any information about any such challenge floating around the blogosphere, but correct me if I’m wrong.

With 27 entrants to the Spooktacular Hatchette Book USA giveaway, there are three winners of boxes of books. Each person was assigned a number, and using a random number, I selected three winners. They are:

Update: Contest closed.
I have been trying to figure out what I can do to celebrate Halloween on this blog, since I don’t often read horror novels or stories. Well, Hachette Book Group USA has solved that for me. They’ve offered me some boxes full of books for USA readers of Rebecca Reads. These are their [...]

There were 37 comments on the post, 36 of which were entered into the contest. I assigned everyone a number (in the order you commented, excluding the person who didn’t want to be entered.) Using a random number generator, the winner is…..

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After reading, in the past months, the short stories of Turgenev, Chekhov, Maupassant, James Joyce, and Hemingway, I found O. Henry’s stories to be remarkably different. They were refreshingly delightful, poignant, and easy to read, and yet, I was struck by the inferiority of O. Henry’s actual writing in comparison to the [...]

I’m new to blogging giveaways. I have some books that I was going to mooch via Bookmooch but I then I thought I’d give them away on Rebecca Reads! (Bookmooch doesn’t seem to have any of the books I want anyway.)
However, when I mentioned this to my husband, he thought that was a strange idea. [...]

In honor of Book Bloggers Appreciation Week, I’m giving away my copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. For more BBAW giveaways, visit here and here.

The winner of the Buy a Friend a Book week giveaway is Alessandra! Alessandra wants to read Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady. I’ll send you an email, Alessandra.
For the rest of you, I’m sorry I can’t buy you all a book. Happy reading, all the same!