michael lambe

Leaving Didi’s curry emporium a couple of months ago I glanced over the rack of flyers they have outside and found a book with a sticker on it. The sticker said “Free Book”, which just happens to be two of my favorite words, so I took it home and examined it further. Inside I found another sticker with a web address and an ID number. So I checked it out and discovered BOOKCROSSING. What a marvellous idea, I thought: leaving books you have read and finished with, out “in the wild” for other people to read and write their impressions on the bookcrossing site. Certainly, it would beat selling them to those money-grabbing cheapskates at Green-e Books. How they have the audacity to offer to buy good books for frankly INSULTING prices when they are selling ridiculously over-priced second-hand stock I CANNOT IMAGINE. Green my arse, “Greed-e Books” more like. Anyway, that aside, (bastards) I figured it would be a cool way of disposing of some of the excess bookage I’ve garnered over my ten-year sojourn in these merry isles - whilst participating in an interesting social experiment, benefiting humanity blah blah blah… However, there is one draw back. People are really only likely to “release” books that aren’t that special. If a book really speaks to you, you keep it right? Hence my rather lack-lustre review of John Banville’s “The Sea”. That’d be me being the “anonymous finder”.

No. For book lovers, the next big thing has to be LIBRARYTHING . Here you can catalogue and tag what you are reading, blog your books, connect with like-minded souls, get recommendations, gain access to vast data searchs in over 70 world libraries…

Here’s what I’ve been reading lately (see if you can spot a recurring theme):

Deleted Youtube videos still viewable on Delutube
New Population of Bonobos Discovered
All the fun of booze without the pain
Interspecies Sex: Evolution’s Hidden Secret?
World’s First Recorded Homosexual Necrophiliac Duck