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Hello you guys! I seem to have forgotten how to blog with everything going on around here. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Hope you all are coping okay?

Last week Things finally got to some semblance of a routine this week and I've been finally feeling better and in charge of my emotional faculties. I've taken over one of the upstairs bedrooms and set it up as my office-cum-homeschool room. In other words, the room is a big mess, but both my daughter and I are able to navigate the room fine as everything in the room has a meaning in our own brains. We're both very organized that way. I've been using a sit-stand desk for my work laptop and I'm a little glad that I got to try this system finally. When I'm not working, I'm helping the girl with her letters, numbers, or fun activities. Trust me, this is difficult but we worked through the system this week, and think we have it under control. My father-in-law watches my son during the day as the little ma…
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Some bookish chatter - Now I've seen it all (a blank book on a bestseller list?)

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Honestly, one of these days you'll be receiving an advance copy of my yet-to-be-written new book. Yet-to-be-written is right, because I'm thinking of leaving it entirely blank, if that's all I need to make sure it becomes a bestseller. On nothing less that Amazon, to be sure.

Did you hear about that news earlier this week? I'm still scratching my heads wondering what I'm missing in this picture. Is it the title - one that jumps at you from even a mile away? Or is it that people have been running out of blank paper at home?

Telegraph had this picture up on their post.

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I'm thinking about the number of trees that went into putting this book way up there! Esp if this is also a bestseller. On the other hand, students have been buying this book to use as notebooks for their lectures. So maybe the world's not so crazy after all.

I never thought I would live to see this. Amazon should reshelve this book to the stationary section.

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Misha said…
What!!?? I had not read about this before. That's such a waste of paper and money!
March 24, 2011 at 12:29 AM
Nicole said…
I came over here to say something, but realize that I have no words. Kind of like the book!
March 24, 2011 at 4:19 AM
Suitejuju said…
What ? Really ? A gag book ? Sadly, you know it's women buying this one.
March 24, 2011 at 7:22 AM
Suitejuju said…
Great post btw :)
March 24, 2011 at 7:24 AM
bermudaonion (Kathy) said…
I'm baffled - I guess it would make a great gag gift?
March 24, 2011 at 8:19 AM
hcmurdoch said…
How about making it a free e-book? They could send a file that is all blank except one title page and we'd all feel better (maybe) about the waste! What a disaster; great post!
March 24, 2011 at 8:31 AM
Athira / Aths said…
I can't even believe that they published it! A blank book, honestly!
March 24, 2011 at 11:16 AM
Athira / Aths said…
I can relate to that. For two days, I've only been asking the question, How?
March 24, 2011 at 11:17 AM
Athira / Aths said…
I don't know who is buying it, but what a ridiculous waste of paper and money.
March 24, 2011 at 11:18 AM
Athira / Aths said…
The author mentioned that was his original intention - to make it available as a souvenir. Looks like people are buying it for fun now.
March 24, 2011 at 11:20 AM
Athira / Aths said…
I agree! He could have released a blank research paper, an ebook, a single page souvenir. But a whole 200 page book!?!
March 24, 2011 at 11:22 AM
Marce said…
My dad has one of these books from over 20 years ago, it was small but also approx 200 blank pages. I can't remember the cover, something similar about what men think. I remember thinking funny and also if people buy books without looking in them, then get home and realise it is a joke :-0
March 24, 2011 at 12:28 PM
Athira / Aths said…
Now that's funny. I think some buyers were at least intrigued by the title and didn't look at what's inside. Others must have seen it as a joke. The whole idea is certainly a joke to me, but I'm aghast it's a bestseller!
March 24, 2011 at 3:43 PM
Lisa said…
I've seen this one! Someone gave it to my BIL last years for his birthday. It is funny but you're right, what a waste of paper. And seriously, a bestseller?
March 29, 2011 at 12:11 AM
Meg @ write meg! said…
That is pretty unbelievable! I mean, really. And once you give that as a gift, the person looks at it once, laughs, then puts it on a shelf -- or passes it along to another unsuspecting person. Meh.
March 30, 2011 at 2:31 PM
Athira / Aths said…
The bestseller part is what I don't get. This blank book is actually in those rankings even ahead of the Harry Potters and the Dan Browns!
April 6, 2011 at 7:53 PM
Athira / Aths said…
I know, right? If that person is like me, it will just languish on the shelf, because I'll be hesitant to even tamper with it.
April 6, 2011 at 7:54 PM
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