Freebie Friday Book Giveaway: Entertaining Disasters

Entertaining Disasters: A Novel (With Recipes)

Today I'm offering up the advanced reader's copy of Nancy Spiller's Entertaining Disasters. I read and reviewed this book for Elle Magazine for January 2009. My review for this book wasn't chosed for publication (my review for Sky Below was chosen, however) but you can see the review in a previous post in this blog. Just click the label for Nancy Spiller ;)

Here's how to enter to win-

• Post a comment here (be sure I can contact you to let you know you won),
• Comment on my Twitter,
• Tweet with this phrase "Win Entertaining Disasters at Reviewgarden.blogspot.com
• Link to my blog on your blog, Facebook, or message board.

You'll have to send me an email to let me know that you've linked to the blog. Each link and comment will count as one entry. Next Friday I will enter each entry in a random generator app and the winner will be chosen. Results will be posted on here and on Twitter on Saturday. Once I have the winner's address, I'll send the book on to its new home!

Good luck!
Lily
EDITED TO ADD: CONGRATULATIONS TO KATHY!  ENJOY THE BOOK!

Entertaining Disasters:a novel with recipes by Nancy Spiller

Don't be fooled by the title, Entertaining Disasters. This novel is not a superficial story about a foodie's faux pas hosting dinner parties, but a unique creation by the author to weave fiction into memoir. Through creating this memoir, the narrator, who is unnamed, carries the reader along the journey of her life. Paragraphs of the past are interwoven with the present preoccupation of preparing for a dinner party. We are allowed to see how the circumstances of the past, the pain of a mentally ill family member, the isolation from everyone but her dog and husband, and passion for cooking has molded and shaped the narrator into the obsessive, doubtful, fraudulent food writer she has become. But this isn't just a story of the past, but a tale of a woman who discovers the deeper meaning to life--life that she's avoided for over a decade. Spiller's unique method of storytelling lets us witness the food writer answer her own questions about love, life, perfection, and the importance of family

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Disclosure:  This book was given by Elle Magazine in exchange for a review.