The "spoof fairy tale" I ordered, along with my subscription to Blind Date with a Book arrived yesterday - as did my new camera - so excitement all round!
It came well packaged in a cardboard book box, much as Amazon's would have, only better fitted.
Then when that postage packaging was removed I was presented with this lovely wrapping:
Now, the aim of Blind Date with a Book.com is to help sell authors that maybe did not get as much recognition as they perhaps should have done, or to convince buyers to buy the book that they might not have from the cover or blurb.
I really should have seen what was coming next... and as soon as I saw the spine, I groaned!
I already own it, don't I? So now I have two copies of The Princess Bride - the first being somewhat under-read, I guess. I shall see if there's anybody on Facebook who want it, I guess. :)
That's the risk I take, I guess - being sent a book I already owned/have already read.
I do kind of get it though - my first copy is actually in my "to give to a charity shop" pile.
On reflection though, I may give it another read - see if I take to it properly a second time. I was first given it and the dvd by my boyfriend during its resurgence in the late noughties and while I found it amusing I wasn't sure I quite "got" what everybody was going on about. I'll give it another go as a more mature reader of 27-almost-28, rather than 18-almost-19.
Bring on 6th March, when my first of 6 books arrives!
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