Saturday, August 06, 2005

Books in Custody

The competition of find Britain's best reading group was recently won by a inmates of a prison. The Penguin/Orange Prize was awarded to the "book loving fools" of High Down Prison reading group, Surrey.
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Loved the reaction from the one-male member of our group Fiction&Friends when I forwarded an article about the finalists:
"Am laughing out loud at the fact that the only all-male book club consists of a bunch of convicts. So that's how you get men to read. Take them out of the general population and lock them up!"

Why is it that women love to meet and talk books but men not?

Postscript:

Read about Nick Hornby's prison visit.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Because women love to meet and talk, period (no pun intended.) :)

PS. What do the latest grammar bibles say about placement of smileys ? :)

Allan Koay 郭少樺 said...

men love to meet to talk about women who love to meet and talk about books.

bibliobibuli said...

and women love to meet to talk about men who meet to talk about women who talk about books perhaps?

reads from the latest style guide: "smileys punctuate forum talk and e-mail talk and chats at any point where the writer finds his own facial features break into a grin ..."
(;-D)

Kak Teh said...

yap - i've been to this prison before - not as inmatelah! but to visit and interview someone..but am sure he's not one of the reading lot. he'd rather be talking to himslef these days.
btw...u meet my husband and u wont b talking abt anything else but books!

Anonymous said...

Please tell me there isn't really a style guide for smileys :)

bibliobibuli said...

Errrr ... okay Porty, there is no style guide for smilies. just drop 'em in willy-nilly and you can't go wrong. ~:-@>

Anonymous said...

Thanks :) that wa:)s what I thoug:Dt :)