Friday, 4 March 2011
Book 'em, Danno
Tomorrow's World Book Night - hope you're joining in the celebrations in some way - perhaps by reading a book! I'm away at a conference for the weekend (got to write the paper this morning) so I'll have to collect my box of books on Monday. I applied for 48 copies of Nigel Slater's memoir, Toast, proposing to hand them out to the cooks in The Dark Place's pubs and cafés: Slater is a chef and food writer from this fair city, so it should catch readers' interests.
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And so, on Monday, The Vole will wander the streets of his city, at night, handing out the tale of a young man discovering his homosexuality, to complete strangers, with the words "I think you might find this interesting."
No possibility for a hilarious misunderstanding there then. Move along. Nothing to see.
Ah, the possibilities are endless…
Haha, choking with laughter!
What's your paper on Vole?
Hope I don't choke on anything else.
It's just a retread of my thesis - constructions of masculinity in 1930s popular fiction.
Toast is good - and it is set in the dark place. There was a film on TV recently of Toast, with Nigel Slater appearing at the end. His recipes are great too.
One of your colleagues is giving copies of Love in the Time of Cholera to our class to mark World Book Night.
It is wonderful to share favourite books with people.
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