“An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.” Brandon Mull

Picked up from Leeds Trinity Centre's OBCZ shelf - with the aim of passing it on to the York BC Meetup group.

Releasing at next Tuesday's BC Meetup in York...

releasing, as promised...

I find Caitlin Moran infuriating and hilarious in equal measure, so I am quite looking forward to this, in a masochistic kind of way.

Well, it's definitely funny. Within a couple of pages, I was helpless with laughter at Moran's use of an extended metaphor involving Chewbacca attacking some ducks to describe a review she once did of Ned's Atomic Dustbin. There are several more laugh-out-loud moments to be had here. There are also some frustratingly half-baked bits of political theory which are more annoying than enlightening. Moran herself strikes me as the sort of ditzy, consciously quirky person who would drive me absolutely mad if I ever met her in person. I gave her an extra mark out of ten, though, because I can sympathise with her habit of making a tit out of herself when she meets people she admires. I'm exactly the same in that respect...

Released at York BookCrossing meetup.

With the author's usual style of irreverent wit, she examines many aspects of modern life as a collection of her previous articles and reviews. Varied in quality and in amusement value.