The Persephone Perplex

Posted on | May 6, 2010 | 4 Comments

On Monday I presented you with the most perplexing of Persephone problems … what book should I most definitely read this week?  To help me with this I dangled a dazzling carrot in front of you: the person who gave the most persuasive argument would win a Persephone book of their choice and I have received some fabulous answers with The Home-Maker being the most popular choice.  However, the brief was the most persuasive entry, the one that persuaded me to pick up that Persephone this week, if not then and there; of course, that is entirely subjective and what worked on me wouldn’t necessarily work for somebody else but my give-away, my rules! Hee.  Suffice to say, somebody was successful in persuading me which Persephone to read and though a Persephone that I have been itching to read, one that was on the agenda this week, the response pushed me to immediately reading it.  I had planned on keeping the give-away open until 12pm GMT tomorrow but once this was posted, it was a one-horse race, a Lipizzaner, if you will, and there was no other Persephone that could pip it to the post.  The winning entry was this one:

You’ve placed my choice for you firmly on the top of your stack! While turning the pages of this book, I wondered what you would think of certain characters and situations. The fact that someone writing ‘F**k you, Marghanita Laski’ in a review for Little Boy Lost, promptly had you ordering a copy was an indication of the emotion you like a story to evoke. This book had me running a dialogue, sometimes silently and sometimes not, with several characters as their actions would really have me ticked off! I’ve been dying to know your thoughts on To Bed with Grand Music for months, Claire. Put me out of my misery!

This was the SECOND entry, by Darlene, and it was all over.  It was Darlene who prompted me to pick up Little Boy Lost last Persephone Reading Week by alluding to the book review she mentions and it was my highlight of the week and now one of my all-time favourite Persephones; there was no resisting Darlene’s temptation, she fully convinced me and I reached for my copy of To Bed With Grand Music and finished reading it earlier today.  Congratulations and thank you, Darlene!  Have a long, hard think of which Persephone you would love to add to your collection and email me please.  Thanks to everyone else who entered and please remember that there is this give-away still to enter as well as another tomorrow and those being hosted by my co-host.

A review of To Bed With Grand Music will follow shortly.

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