Last night saw the roll out of Cat and my brainchild. A bookclub that takes it’s material from the Popular Penguin books, mostly because they are cheap, readily available and on the whole with only a few exceptions entirely fantastic. There are twelve of us – largish group really, but despite not everyone knowing each other it seemed to work quite splendidly. We will be meeting once a month (subject to review).
First book on the agenda is Cold Comfort Farm, which I can hopefully go purchase today. We meet again in a month. I’m either going to have to pace myself or write notes to aid my shocking memory, unless of course the book is slow and dull and then it might take me a month… although I somehow doubt it.
I’m rather happy to be finally doing something like this. Now I just have to convince everyone that reading a John Wyndam is worthwhile – despite it being kind of vaguely sci-fi. And do the dishes from last night…
I usually use Google Reader to “star” posts and things I find inspiring. However sometimes the rss feeder extends only so far and I had gone off on an internet tangent when I came across this. I really like this book cover. I’m not sure if it’s due to the relative simplicity, how clean it feels or that rather beautiful ampersand (being a bit of a sucker for them).
