Hilarious!! That made my day. there’s a party game that’s really fun to play with writers. One person reads the blurb on the back of a book. That person copies the actual blurb, and the others try to write winnable fakes. Everyone votes. It’s a hoot. I’d love to use this book for the game.
Hilarious!! That made my day. there’s a party game that’s really fun to play with writers. One person reads the blurb on the back of a book. That person copies the actual blurb, and the others try to write winnable fakes. Everyone votes. It’s a hoot. I’d love to use this book for the game.
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I think I tried to read an Alasdair Gray book back in the bad old days of the Scottish lit renaissance (Trainspotting era)….
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[…] Gray, quoted by Edwin Turner, ‘The Best Blurb’, in Biblioklept (2012) <https://biblioklept.org/2012/05/12/the-best-blurb-ive-seen-in-ages/> [accessed […]
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[…] Turner, Edwin, ‘The Best Blurb’, in Biblioklept (2012) <https://biblioklept.org/2012/05/12/the-best-blurb-ive-seen-in-ages/> […]
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