A little jotting to say that if you did not know already but Monday is World Book Night. I picked up my books today. 24 copies of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.
Don’t they look lovely all together – but actually there is one missing already because I was cheeky gave one away to the Mortgage Adviser in the bank (it didn’t sway the mortgage), where I had an appointment which tied in with me visiting my local Waterstones to pick them up. She was thrilled and as she had just finished a book, did not know what to read next and had never read Rebecca. Result!
So what shall I do with all of these books – well give them away of course. And on the off chance that any readers and followers of this blog have NOT read this wonderful novel then please leave a message and I will send one out to you. I am a little bit nervous about giving them out to random people but I am sure it will be fine. Some of them are going to be given to friends for a Book Club that I have started at their behest. More about that in another post.
Robert Colville of the Telegraph writes an interesting piece on World Book Night about how giving out books gets people reading which is a good thing.
So what else is there to tell you about this week – it was the first week back at work after holidays. It was a tough one in more ways than I would imagine and has been rather challenging. Hopefully routine is back and the early mornings will not hurt so much now and I will be much settled next week. The swimming has been going well, so that is a bonus.
Always wanting to have something to look forward to and I am a bit late to perhaps be mentioning this as I see it was announced in Feb 2012 but the BBC have commissioned a television series of Blandings by P G Wodehouse. I have read nearly all of the Jeeves and Wooster stories but not Blandings so when I saw this was announced I wanted to see what they were like. Popping along to my local library I thought I would see what they had and picked up a book – Leave it to Psmith.
Not that I need to be borrowing books from the library as I have enough at home to be read. But I did wander round, and saw lots of books that I can pop back and borrow. Especially those that I want to catch up on and will be good for the Crime Fiction Alphabet Challenge coming up in May.
And then of course we have had rain……rain…….rain……
The Book Jotter 
I haven’t read Daphne, not sure if you are able to send one to France?
Certainly would love to send one to France.
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Love Rebecca. What an amazing writer. Just to let you know, April 21st is Charlotte Bronte’s birthday. Jane Eyre’s another favourite. Enjoy your posts. Please stop by http://www.michelecartersblog.com/ if you like all things Bronte.
Hasn’t the weather been terrible? My holiday can’t come soon enough!
Ooo how exciting that you got Rebecca to hand out, I just love that book.
I can never resist popping to my local Library either and always leaving with an armload of books!
I would love to read Rebecca, I have read Jamaica Inn but for some reason not got around to Rebecca. I will email you my addy. Many thanks. x
Just to say a big thank you, my copy of ‘Daphne’ arrived yesterday and now it feels like World Book Night has become more than just a virtual observation for me, I have a physical souvenir and a book I have always wanted to read. Merci encore 🙂
So glad to hear it has arrived – and pretty quick service!