Next Thing You Know, I’ll Be Writing About Trying To Snog Someone In Gordon’s Wine Bar

One of the most important rules of my blogging is “no repetition”, an axiom I would add to Tim Footman’s Dogme-esque blogging manifesto, if I had to.

This was part of the reason (as much as there actually was a discernible reason I could attempt to explain) why I deleted my former blog and attempted to start afresh in pastures new.  The other reason, if you’re interested was because early posts on the former blog found me still attempting to find my feet and I wanted to start from the top as if I knew what I was doing. Which I still don’t really.

Nevertheless I feel the urge to repeat myself today. Some of you who read my previous blog may recall my Book Dedications.

I bought a couple of books from charity shops which had dedications in. Despite this, the person who received the book felt they wanted to give the book away to raise a few quid for Oxfam or the British Heart Foundation.

I am a keen book dedicator myself, if I ever buy someone a book I will always try and write something in it. The best book dedications should be slightly embarrassing to the person receiving the book, although not embarrasing enough that they feel the urge to give the book away though.

What kind of a person would give a book with a dedication in away? I’m sure some of them the dedicatee died or something, which would excuse it, but this can’t have happened to all of them.

To this end, I have set up a Group on Flickr, entitled Book Dedications and I would like to solicit book dedications from you. They don’t have to be book dedications like the ones I have described, if you have a nice one that you’d like to share, please let me know.

And if you’re on Flickr, please come and join the group…