I had seen some spoilers still definitely had a number of surprised, interestingly B had seen different spoilers and therefore had different surprises. Even the things I knew were great seen in context to be honest. Definitely stay to the end of the credits.
I think that probably still counts, it's really about getting a wide set of world views I guess
197 countries = the 193 UN recognised countries + Palestine, the Vatican, Taiwan and Kosovo as a fairly well accepted list. The Vatican is going to be difficult (impossible?) unless I include nonfiction but that may be necessary anyway. So far I've counted fiction & poetry.
I was somewhat surprised by that, I've just been googling a lot of authors to check (and dual nationalities are being included). I've also read a lot more Nigerian authors than I realised (many of whom are SFF authors), and more Polish authors too.
I have to admit we start eating them during Holy Week, mostly because once Easter hits on Sunday there will be other tasty things around! I'll definitely be having one as a snack later this afternoon.
I loved the idea so the cut out pages really threw me. Maybe someone wrote something rude, or the library removed them before anything was written but it felt so strange. "We share these names of our loved ones in the whisper of the last page turning, over the years to come." (2/2)
Though as I said on Instagram most of today's phone photos were actually shelf and drawer numbers. Less beautiful but v important
A number of the shops were antiquarian and therefore expensive but I was surprised too!
Also he finished with this poem which makes something upsettingly familiar (paper jam) into something else entirely malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/a...