Assignment 7.0

Write a book review, 350-600 words, on a novel by any of the following authors:

• Yann Martel
  
• Haruki Murakami
  
• Salman Rushdie
  
• Banana Yashimoto
  
• Jeanette Winterson
  
• Gabriel Garcia marquez
  
• Any Booker Prize winner
  
• Any timeless literary giant (Jack Kerouac, Victor Hugo, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, etc.)

Please note:

• Do NOT choose children's literature (CS Lewis, JRR Tolkein, JK Rowling, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, etc.)
  
• Do NOT choose self-help and spiritual books (Kahlil Gibran, Richard Bach, Rick Warren or any of their ilk.)
  
• Do NOT choose books that have already been turned into films. ("High Fidelity," "Love in the Time of Cholera," etc.)
  
• Avoid books that are all too popular. ("10,000 Years of Solitude," "The Satanic Verses," etc.)
  
• Added points will be given for reviews on books that are an author's most recent.
  

To be posted on the blog and printed (with enough copies for everyone) for workshop in class on  May 6, 2008.

The best works will be published on the Lifestyle section of the Manila Times for Fridays (Literary theme).