Bookride...an interesting exploration of the uncommon...

(and sometimes quite common). I've just been given a heads up by the author of Bookride and I am both grateful and annoyed. In it Nigel Burwood (Any Amount of Books) engages in an "evaluation of why the book is wanted, what it is worth - with a range of selling prices, some trivia, apercus and bon mots, a few anecdotes, so called jokes and occasional rants."

I am grateful because it is an absolutely great read. I am annoyed because: A) I wish I had the time (and knowledge) to craft as readable entries; b) I did not find it sooner (while it appears to have been launched in Dec., 2006, there are 160 posts already...all eminently readable); c) I know have one more thing that I am going to have to read regularly. Ah, how I suffer.

I expect you will be seeing references in the future to some of his posts. You can start with this post, about a possibly apocryphal James Joyce broadside published by his father when he was 9. I will, I predict, have a dream this evening of opening some dusty copy of Ulysses and finding such laid in...ah, how I love flights of fancy...