Welcome to the Summer Giveaway Hop, hosted by I Am A Reader, Not A Writer, and BookHounds.

The idea of the “hop” is that a whole bunch of blogs plan different giveaways, then link up to make it easier for visitors to find and enter them. This hop runs from Wednesday, August 1, 2012 to Tuesday, August 7, 2012. The winner will be announced on Wednesday, August 8, 2012.

For this hop, I’m giving away an advanced reader copy of Judging a Book by Its Lover by Lauren Leto.

Blurb (from HarperCollins):

Want to impress the hot stranger at the bar who asks for your take on Infinite Jest? Dying to shut up the blowhard in front of you who’s pontificating on Cormac McCarthy’s “recurring road narratives”? Having difficulty keeping Francine Prose and Annie Proulx straight?

For all those overwhelmed readers who need to get a firm grip on the relentless onslaught of must-read books to stay on top of the inevitable conversations that swirl around them, Lauren Leto’s Judging a Book by Its Lover is manna from literary heaven! A hilarious send-up of—and inspired homage to—the passionate and peculiar world of book culture, this guide to literary debate leaves no reader or author unscathed, at once adoring and skewering everyone from Jonathan Franzen to Ayn Rand to Dostoyevsky and the people who read them.

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