Blog A Penguin Classic

This is interesting: Penguin Books Ltd. have set up a blog inviting readers' reviews of titles in the Penguin Classics series. An interesting selection of titles have been reviewed so far -- click on the "Books" link for the list (not for the first time I smugly note that our catalogue's title browses don't list all the books beginning with "The" under "T").

Sadly, I was too late to get a free book for myself (which may account for the cheap point-scoring in the last paragraph).

Shopping list

I bumped into Ellis Nadler's blog by accident, and a happy one too. I'm a great believer in the power serendipity and Ellis' often deceptively-simple sketches are often chock-full of stray thoughts skittering off in all directions.

His recent "Shopping List" is a nice example. Here's a game for those of us with enquiring minds:

• What on earth was Ellis planning on doing that prompted him to draw up this shopping list?
• Did he do it?
• And who did the cleaning up afterwards?

No prizes, just a bit of fun.