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I think I missed last week and so this week I'll give away two books,The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand and In The Wake: A Novel by Per Petterson The winners are: Age of Deception for The Metaphysical Club and Sean for In the Wake. Please contact me by email with your mailing addresses. I'll take all requests for the books left in the comments during the next 24 hours and then use a random number generator to determine the winners. You can enter for one book or the other but not both, so please specify the book you want. I'll then ship the book at my expense to the winners. The offer is limited to residents of the U.S. and Canada. My apologies to my good friends in other countries but the cost of shipments to other destinations is simply too high. Note:The offer is open only to registered comments others will be ignored. Please make it clear if you want to be considered for the book or are just commenting, and don't forget to specify the book you want....

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Ian McEwan is one of may favorite authors and an atheist. You may have watched the segment on him in the [Root of All Evil](http://richarddawkins.net/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=6). I recently finished reading [Enduring Love](http://amazon.com/dp/0385494149/?tag=onegoodmove-20) a novel he wrote ten years ago, and one of his best. The protaganist, Joe Rose, is one I like a lot, a science writer,and a rationalist. He is a character who has much in common with the author. It's not suprising, but interesting, how McEwan draws on his personal experiences and imbues this character with his own feelings and beliefs in this story. realted: [I think I'm right, therefore I am](http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,98968,00.html) I said,"there is nothing we can do but wait," and gestured in the direction of the road, one field away. Parry took a couple of steps closer and looked down at Logan then back to me. The gray-blue eyes gleamed. He was excited, but no one could ever have guessed to what extent. "Actually, I think there is something we can do." I looked at my watch. It was fifteen minutes since I had phoned the emergency services. "You go ahead," I said. "Do what you like." "It's something we can do together?" he said as he...

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This week's book is Monkeyluv by Robert M. Sapolsky And the winner is k, the final entry. Congratulations to the winner and thanks to all who participated. I'll take all requests for the book left in the comments during the next 24 hours and then use a random number generator to determine a winner. I'll then ship the book at my expense to the lucky person. The offer is limited to residents of the U.S. and Canada. My apologies to my good friends in other countries but the cost of shipments to other destinations is simply too high. Note:The offer is open only to registered comments others will be ignored. Please make it clear if you want to be considered for the book or are just commenting....

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I love short stories, and so when I learned that Tobias Wolff had some new stories, and had released them in a collection with a selection of his earlier stories I didn't order it from Amazon. I didn't take advantage of my Amazon Prime account and its two-day delivery. No, I stopped by my local bookstore on the way home from work and purchased Our Story Begins: New And Selected Stories by Tobias Wolff. It includes one of my all time favorite short stories, "Bullet in the Brain," and you're in luck the New Yorker has a podcast of T. Coraghessan Boyle reading the story. Give it a listen, even if you're familar with the story Boyle's reading is excellent, and the discussion of the story is also interesting....

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By popular request this week's book is The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon And the winner is . . . blinky I'll take the first ten requests for the book left in the comments and then use a random number generator to determine a winner. I'll then ship the book at my expense to the lucky person. The offer is limited to residents of the U.S. and Canada. My apologies to my good friends in other countries but the cost of shipments to other destinations is simply too high. Note: Please make it clear if you want to be considered for the book or are just commenting....

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Posted by Norm at 11:19 AM | Permalink | Comments (15)

How do I choose a book to give away next week. I know, I'll ask the readers to choose. Here are three possible choices: Monkeyluv The Metaphysical Club The Yiddish Policeman's Union Now you decide which of the three would you like to be next week's offering....

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It's that time again. I've just discovered that I have an extra copy of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. I'll take the first ten requests for the book left in the comments and then use a random number generator to determine a winner. I'll then ship the book at my expense to the lucky person. I'm going to have to limit this to residents of the United States and Canada until I find a less expensive way to ship to other locations. Howard's latest book is A People's History of American Empire I believe that makes junta_kinte this week's winner. So please send me a name and mailing address and I'll dispatch the book posthaste. Send the information to normjenson at yahoo.com If I don't acknowledge please resend to onegoodmove at gmail.com...

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I have hundreds of feet of bookshelves, and they are always overflowing. I frequently pass books on to friends and relatives and also sell some on Amazon, but it's such a pain to list them and I'd much prefer to pass them along to someone who I know will take the time to read them. So I thought I'd periodically give away some recent reads of mine here at onegoodmove. All you have to do is request it in the comments. I'll take the first ten requests use a random number generator to determine the winner, and ship it to you at my expense. The first book I'm offering is J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year update: And the winner is, Steven. Please send me the address you'd like me to mail the book to....

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'Richard Dawkins on five of his favorite books (link to audio) Richard Dawkins joins Mariella Frostrup to reveal the part that fiction plays in his life, and chooses five of his favourite books. It's worth a listen. I quite enjoyed it. Richard Dawkins's Five of the Best: The Black Cloud: Fred Hoyle Dark Universe: Daniel Galouye Red Strangers: Elspeth Huxley The Lion Children: Angus, Travers and Maisie McNeice Sword of Honour: Evelyn Waugh...

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