My favorite thing to arrive via my computer this week are these ads for Penguin Classics from Penguin Malaysia. Saw them a few places but think they all link back to The Inspiration Room here. So above you see The Hound of the Baskervilles and below Cannery Row and The Railway Children. The idea here being that the classics are simply "unputdownable." Gorgeous design.
The other interesting something I stumbled upon that seems to have taken hold of people's fancy is this week's Guardian piece on Ford Maddox Ford's page 99 theory and a website about to launch based upon that entertaining but suspect notion.
"Ford Madox Ford recommended instead that readers "open the book to page ninety-nine and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you". A new website, page99test.com, launches next month to test that premise. It will offer (courageous) authors and aspiring authors the chance to upload the 99th pages of their works and invite readers to comment on whether they would buy, or like to read, the rest."
Maybe I only stopped to read because I saw Ford's name and A Good Soldier is one of my favorite novels. Or maybe I felt like wasting a little time hitting page 99 of what turned out to be more than a few books. But it was fun.
Have been engaging in non-blogging blogging since August since the craziness of the start of the new school year but life is starting to look close to normal again, and I am more than ready to discuss books again rather than the bookish. Loving the new Nicole Krauss right now and gearing up for Madame Bovary. What are you reading in the Sunday Salon today?
