Travelling Book.

I’ve decided to finally make good on my promise of a travelling book in the new year. These are The Rules, or rather, how it’s going to work. 

I am picking two books I want sent round — The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa and Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson. I love them both. 

You cannot chose both books, because I imagine (hopefully!) there will be quite a few people who will want to do this. 

So: 

• The idea is that when you receive the book, you read it and annotate it. Highlight, underline, scribble in the margins. Pick a method/pen and stick to it so we can differentiate between people. You must do some form of marginalia. The results are why I think this can be interesting.
• I will need everyone’s addresses, but the only other person who will have your address will be the person who has the book prior to you. 
• You will have six weeks to read the book, after which you have to mail it to the next person, whether or not you’ve read it. If you haven’t, obviously that would be enormously disappointing because there will be fewer comments/marginalia in the book. 
• I will chose six people per book, so that it should come back to me at the end of the year. 
• If you want to do this, you have to be aware that you will need to mail the book on. I know that pretty much everywhere in the world it’s expensive to mail books, so I haven’t chosen long, thick books. But please please don’t agree to it if you can’t airmail the book forward. 

I’ll be contacting some people who said they wanted to do this when I first mentioned it, but please put your name in the hat if you want to join!! Reblog and comment, or send me an ask, or an email. Any form to let me know you’re interested. I’ll need at least six people per book for this to work. I’m really excited about it, and I hope you guys are too.