Typecast

It's been a short but eventful month so let's see what I've learnt in February... If you mention that you have a few of your Harry Potter books are first editions, you get at least eighteen friends sending you links  they have found that detail which copies are worth more than others. All very useful, and they were possibly hoping to be named as ' that friend who helped me find my fortune '  although I think my copies are definitely not worth the $55,000 that some may be - possibly just £55 when all added together.  I might go and get them valued though.  What do you think? The numbers on a telephone pad and the numbers on a computer keypad are opposite ways round and no-one seems to know why. I asked about it on my social media channels and there was not one definitive answer. If you have any theories then I'd love to know. Bloggers are a valuable comodity but people will still try to take the piss out of them by under-valuing them and attempt...

There's something enormously special about reading a book; being led into a world that you didn't know existed.  Tempted by the words someone else has written and becoming completely and utterly enveloped in where the story is going to take you next. When my favourite books are developed into films, I become twitchy.  I have already created my own image of the characters in my head and there is usually no way that all the details can be encaptured in the recommended length of a film.  It can happen in reverse too.   One of the best films ever  is based on  a book  which I hunted down and was very disappointed in.  But that is the nature of storytelling, isn't it?  We all have different ways of presenting our ideas to our audience.   None of my children have ever really read for pleasure.  Not in the way I do, anyway.  They learnt to read and write as normal, books were always made available to them along with library mem...