The Book Night coincided with Shakespeare's birthday and in London thousands of books were to be given away free. Many libraries held special events and on television, ITV produced a programme called "The Genius of Dahl" with David Walliams exploring his story-telling and talking to illustrator, Quentin Blake. On Woman's Hour Doris Lessing was to be interviewed, but unfortunately I didn't manage to catch either of these.
However, Kathleen's blog mentioned the fact that Kindle were offering free books to download on that night and I got one! Apologies to Kathleen, I didn't choose her "Life of Christina Rossetti" but a thriller that seemed like an easy-read, before I tackle Tove Jansson's "Summer Book" and "Suite Francaise" by Irene Nemirovsky - both for the reading group Room to Write and Read that meets at Whitworth Hall on May 21st.
An interesting post showing how we find books by some kind of game of Chinese Whispers. You could try Kathleen's Rosetti - it's an interesting and involving read, wx
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