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GIVEAWAY! – Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link

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UPDATE: This giveaway is now closed! Thanks for visiting.

The folks over at Penguin were kind enough to provide me with a copy of Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link and one of my lucky readers gets to win this gorgeous hardcover! Thank you Jillian!

Here is a brief blurb:

“Through the lens of Link’s vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything deserves a second look. From the multiple award-winning “The Faery Handbag,” in which a teenager’s grandmother carries an entire village (or is it a man-eating dog?) in her handbag, to the near-future of “The Surfer,” whose narrator (a soccer-playing skeptic) waits with a planeload of refugees for the aliens to arrive, Link’s stories are funny and full of unexpected insights and skewed perspectives on the world. Her fans range from Michael Chabon to Peter Buck of R.E.M. to Holly Black of Spiderwick Chronicles fame. Now teens can have their world rocked, too!”

This book is classified as Young Adult but I feel it appeals to both YAs and Adults. To read more about Kelly Link, visit her website by clicking here. Click here to read what Bibliophile Stalker had to say about it. It’s currently a Powells.com Staff Pick.

Giveaway Details:

This giveaway is open to the U.S. and Canada. There are TWO ways to enter:

1. Post a comment for ONE entry. Be sure to include an email address so I can contact you.

2. For THREE more entries, post about this giveaway on your blog and then include the link in a comment to this post. This giveaway will run until Sunday, November 30, 2008, 8pm (PST). The winner will be selected randomly and announced on Monday, December 1, 2008. I will contact the winner for his/her mailing address. Good luck!!!

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Monsters Anyone?

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Once in awhile I like to check out Powell’s for some new reads. It’s not like I need more to read because I have plenty of piles of my own to go through, but sometimes you want something new and different.

I came across this little gem, Pretty Monsters: Stories, by Kelly Link. I’ve not had the pleasure of reading anything by Link but the blurb for this collection of short stories caught my eye. Additionally it’s a YA novel which is not something I normally reach for.

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Through the lens of Link’s vivid imagination, nothing is what it seems, and everything deserves a second look. From the multiple award-winning “The Faery Handbag,” in which a teenager’s grandmother carries an entire village (or is it a man-eating dog?) in her handbag, to the near-future of “The Surfer,” whose narrator (a soccer-playing skeptic) waits with a planeload of refugees for the aliens to arrive, Link’s stories are funny and full of unexpected insights and skewed perspectives on the world.

Initially I thought this might be a good book for my son but after reading a few of the pages online, I see that it’s really geared towards those 12 years and older. Has anyone read it? I may have to pick this one up.