Someone said these daily prizes are like opening the doors on an Advent Calendar and it feels like that here too, very exciting, and perhaps we're beating recession depression just a fraction.Today, heaven help us, there will be TWENTY-ONE winners.
So talk of opening doors is a perfect route into today's prize draw because one of the great pleasures in my reading life is something which does just that, The Reader magazine (and the blog here.)
For anyone who isn't aware of it, you are missing a little treasure trove of brilliant writing which is all destined to make books and reading enjoyable and accessible to everyone and my thoughts are all gathered here.
Based at Liverpool University and regular visitors here may recall that I wondered back along (as we say in Devon) quite how Jane Davis would manage to transfer editiorial responsibility to husband Phil this year without a bit of a fracas over the breakfast table Chez Davis.
I mean, Jane had it all looking just so, absolutely tickety-boo and cosy in there and in comes Phil wielding a paint brush, new curtains up in a flash and a new look edition of The Reader started to drop into the post box every three months here.
Well we're loving it just the same because nothing will change that ethos of the unpretentious all-inclusive approach to the written word, and I am especially delighted to be part of the regular Reader panel who are sent a mystery classic to read and then write 75 words-worth of thoughts on for each edition (we've just been up-graded from 50 words, it was bliss).
I've just read...no, no, I'll keep it a secret until the next edition comes up, but it was a Thomas Hardy lifelong favourite, possibly my fourth reading, if not more and I had to give it my first top 5* rating.
So tonight's Christmas stocking filler is quite special and there will be a very happy winner indeed because The Reader have very kindly offered a prize-draw of one year's free subscription to the magazine and for twenty (yes twenty) runners up a free copy of an edition from 2008 and this prize can go worldwide.
This means that twenty-one of you will be able to read Kirsty Other Stories fab back cover quote, why we all love The Reader, sandwiched in alongside mine, Antonia's (Byatt), Seamus's (Heaney) and Doris's (Lessing) ...Kirsty's is the best though.
Names in comments and Rocky, currently Aga-hugging and resting up after a busy week, will brace for this mammoth selection and delivery task and I hope he doesn't think he can rest over the weekend, lots more to come.
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