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[muninnhuginn]

Was finding the pair of bookworms on Beeb 2 encouraging us to nominate our favourite book increasingly annoying and troublesome. And finally, we've realized why.

They're sad, bloated and very grey, these worms. Evidently suffering from some kind of deficiency. But then if they persist in sticking to a limited diet of one favourite book, what else would you expect?

Best-loved book? Singular. Huh? Paint us polybibliophiles* and unfaithful with it. Well, you should see the queue we have by our nest.

How about nominations for the favourite library/collection instead?

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* Ouch that's one of those dreadful mixed portmanteaus tangling its Latin and Greek roots.

Comments

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, the to-be-read pile, the to-be-shelved pile and (oh, the rods we carve for our own backs) the to-be-reviewed pile.

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[muninnhuginn]

Also the half-read-and-to-be-finished-one-day pile. We catch up, eventually. Took ten years or more for Bulgakov, but that was exceptionally protracted.

[muninnhuginn]

"Oh no it's not," they squawk. "It looks all Greek to us after all." Hah!

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Best-loved book? Singular. Huh? Paint us polybibliophiles* and unfaithful with it.

Exactly. Just one book? I own no bookworms that would be content even to nominate just one writer.

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[muninnhuginn]

Or even just one genre. "Now dear, you've been bingeing on horror far too long. Go and eat your greens. Look, there's a nice pile of gardening books over there."

The BBC "thing" is limited to fiction only. Its nomination form is tedious, skewed, and ripe to be broken. I'm tempted to nominate the Bible just to see how it copes. Well, if it's not fiction, surely it counts at least as a novelisation.