tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208693225312167151.post90422501068924114..comments2013-03-21T07:18:47.679+00:00Comments on The Moose that Roared: Free for FreeOf Moose and Menhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13043561872816862091noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-208693225312167151.post-60878112592739889182009-05-29T09:02:02.601+01:002009-05-29T09:02:02.601+01:00Good idea that, the lending books at stations one,...Good idea that, the lending books at stations one, not the giving books away for free to anyone who hasn't bought a newspaper. Told my wife about this and she told me of another form of 'book blog' she had heard of. Essentially you read a good book, perhaps one less likely to be getting the sort of promotion Wayne Rooney's autobiography demands and you leave it in a coffee shop or train station with a blog address inside and an invitation to read the book, comment on it on the addressed blog and then leave it somewhere for someone else to read and pass on. <br /><br />I am reminded of walking my then 4 year old daughter by the sea on Christmas Day and her watching bemused as two people dressed as santa rode up to her (and latterly lots of other kids) on a tandem and handed her an envelope with £5 in it. Now I'm not convinced it was the real Santa Claus, mainly because there were two of them, but as a random act of just putting something nice into someones life I was struck by what a powerful thing it was to do.<br />And the moving book blog is a bit like that. Without the dressing up, or the tandem, or the free money. OK it's not very much like that but it is a bit, just a random offering of something good to a stranger and the possibility of a bit of engagement about a book.<br />Works for me.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05066666346116592312noreply@blogger.com