I have to say I am a huge fan of this little web page, giving you a humorous, sarcastic and real round up of the week's most interesting activities in the book world. My favourite contributors to this guardian page are Alison Flood and John Dugdale - I love their writing style and tone. Their latest updates this week include:
"Hot and bothered commuters around the country were provided with a new method of whiling away their journeys this week with the launch of a new book club by green lifestyle organisation Global Cool. Intended to encourage people to take public transport, the book club kicked off on Thursday by giving away 50,000 samplers of David Nicholls's 20-year love story One Day at train stations in London, Manchester, Nottingham and Brighton, and encouraging readers to review the book on Twitter with the hash tag #BooksInPublic.
A deal with publisher Hodder & Stoughton means Global Cool will continue its giveaways weekly for the next six weeks, with novels including Matt Hilton's thriller Dead Men's Dust, Lauren Oliver's tale of teenage love and death Before I Fall and Gerald Seymour's story of a Camorra crime clan, The Collaborator, all up for grabs. Sadly the organisers haven't chosen titles that are memorable for their transport set pieces: where's JK Rowling and platform 9¾, or Agatha Christie on the Orient Express, or – although perhaps it'd be too disturbing if you were actually on a train at the time – Anna Karenina?"
See, the things you learn! Check out 'This week in books' at the guardian website: www.guardian.co.uk/books
No comments:
Post a Comment