Second part of the Desert Island Whatever game… after the books, the records – music, that is, sounds to have on a desert island.
And if I cheated with my kindle adding a few thousand titles to my one crate of essential reading, well, when it comes to music cheating is even easier.
Just give me an internet connection, and on my desert island we’ll never be short of music.
But ok, it’s a game, we play it anyway.
My desert island records… there’s a lot of them. Continue reading
There is this game, you know about it of course. It’s the Desert Island Whatever… books, records, movies…
The idea is, you are stranded on a desert island, what books (or records, or movies) do you bring with you?
Now, let’s look at the thing from another perspective: you are sitting in a room filled with books, just like the one in which I’m sitting, and in a short while, say two or three weeks, you will have to take it to the road, and you’ll be able to carry with you just a small box filled with books, that you’ll be able to park somewhere – your uncle’s house, for instance.
All the rest you will have to leave behind.
What do you take with you?
I’ve been playing this game, that is still just a game, in the last few days, and it’s as hard as hell.
Because if you are a book lover, and you grew up with books, you have a connection with each and every book in your library, and losing them, or leaving them behind, is a soul-rending experience.
But anyway, let’s play the game. Continue reading
Karavansara 