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Saturday February 24, 2007
- Stand up please Britiain’s Greatest Living author. No, not you Martin Amis. Can you sit down please. The Guardian last week referred to Martin Amis in an aside as Britain’s GLA, infuriating one reader to declare that she was prepared to emigrate if this was the case (or threaten suicide, depending on which report you read). The paper yesterday followed with a feature inviting a host of writers and critics to consider Amis and to suggest their own nominations. My own nomination? Stand up please Harold Pinter.
- My wife has discovered the website We Feel Fine. I really don’t know what to make of this one.
- The Millions note that the 2007 weblog awards do not include a category for book blogs. Leaving that omission aside – and I’m not one to knock other blogs, but… well, I found this year’s nominations a bit depressing.
- Today’s Independent is giving away a free copy of A Clockwork Orange in a new banned books season. After my excitement had died down (and after I had read the small print) I realised that the following books in the series are priced at £3.49 each. Anyway, a chance for me to read the novel as my only experience of it is the Kubrick film.
- I’ve noticed that, although I still buy at least two newspapers on a Saturday, I’m spending more time reading all of the book blogs that I frequent, although some of us often refer to the papers and The Guardian have a From the Blogs column (although they’re getting a little self-referential lately).
Book blogs should definitely be a category for those awards—it’s silly to exclude them. I do like two of the nominated sports blogs very much—Fat Cyclist and Up in Alaska. The others I ignore. Oh, wait, Fat Cyclist is up for “Best Kept Secret.”
Dorothy W. 24 February, 11:50 AM
I can’t dispute the fact that A List Apart and Drawn are both excellent websites, and Gaping Void is also worth a look. I was just hoping for some pleasant surprises.
Stephen 24 February, 03:02 PM
We Feel Fine IS a strange website. I don’t know what to think of it either. A collection of human emotions culled from blogs? Hmm…
Brandon 24 February, 04:52 PM
The applet is fun to play around with for a few minutes, but I can’t decide who this is aimed at. For a start, if you find anything remotely interesting you can’t trace it back to the author. I found something promising about marshmallows, but it’s gone back into the void forever now.
Stephen 24 February, 05:39 PM
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