Shaggy Blog Stories in the wild
Here is a picture of the book Shaggy Blog Stories, quite at home in an actual real live bookshop, cheek by cheeky cheek with Alexander McCall Smith, Dan Rhodes and Ian McEwan and not looking overawed in the slightest, despite such august company.
So why not boost its self esteem even more by calling in and buying a copy, that way it will feel even more like a proper grown up book, and you will feel even more like a proper grown up, though with a misty eye, because you will have made a contribution to comic relief and bought a book the old-fashioned way.
Of course, it may be that you are chained to a radiator in a darkened room with only internet explorer for company (or perhaps you just, like, don't live in Crystal Palace) in which case you can still go here. They ain't sold out yet and they won't until the world runs out of ink.
Ryu!
Posted by: lo_fi | March 29, 2007 at 07:41 PM
I was in Foyles yesterday (I know, I know, it's a big shop, not a little one, but I needed a specific book on archaelogy quickly that wasn't stocked in any of the small places on Charing X Rd).
The realisation that I am not going to read all the books in the world before I die, almost made me cry. I mean their section on ancient Pompeii, never mind ancient Rome is several hundred strong.
How can one deal with all the knowledge that there are so many books that I won't even open!
Posted by: ResoluteReader | March 30, 2007 at 09:23 AM
lo-fi - that's a technical term, right?
Resolute - I once knew someone in their thirties who calculated how many books they had left to read in their lifetime based on assumed lifespan, and amount of books already read; they got so depressed it was a month or so before they picked up a book again.
Posted by: JonthanM | March 30, 2007 at 11:12 AM
Wasn't Macaulay the last person who had supposedly read "everything"? As somebody once said: there ain't half been some clever bastards...
Posted by: roland | March 30, 2007 at 11:36 AM
Speaking of technical terms, do you have any Kobo Abe?
Posted by: lo_fi | March 30, 2007 at 08:27 PM
lo-fi - oooops. No, we have no Abe. I shall rectify.
With you on the Japanese film though, 100%.
(crawl).
Posted by: Jonathan | March 31, 2007 at 10:11 AM
AhhhhhhhH! A little bit of me is sitting next to a part of Ian McEwan! *does a crazy dance*
Posted by: Kiwiqueen | April 01, 2007 at 12:09 PM
Hello Kiwiqueen, I see you have been watching Black Books, that should give you a clue...
Posted by: Jonathan | April 01, 2007 at 12:45 PM
Can I have a copy of Shaggy Blog please? Been waiting to get it from you. Poss to deliver next wk via Jus-mail?
Posted by: Debi | April 07, 2007 at 12:12 PM
Debi - on its way to you, via Jusmail (tm).
Posted by: Jonathan | April 07, 2007 at 12:22 PM