Gulliver’s Travels

Writing by aj@lecraic on Monday, 7 of April , 2008 at 9:53 pm

If you’re in Dublin it won’t have escaped your attention that the One City One Book initiative is running for the month of April. This years book is Gulliver’s Travels.

I like the idea behind One City One Book, and I’ve never read the books from the previous 2 years, so I think I will give this one a go.

It’s on sale in Eason for under €3 so there’s no excuse.

Alternatively, you could download an audio of it for free via the librivox project or the text at Project Gutenberg.

Dublin City Council have set up a website with lots more information and this post on their site, is where you should go to discuss the book. The library section of the council also have a One City One Book flickr stream – oddly, all the photographs are shows as “All Rights reserved”.

I shouldn’t have used one of their images and created the header for this post. But I have in the hope that maybe they will see that these type of images should be released under a Creative Commons License.

Anyway, digression digression. Just get reading!

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6 Comments

Made Tuesday, 8 of April , 2008 at 10:01 am

The license issue is an oversight, sorry! Will address asap, thanks for the reminder.
Eddie (Dublin City Public Libraries)

Comment by aj@lecraic

Made Tuesday, 8 of April , 2008 at 10:38 am

Thanks Eddie, I hesitated before using one of the images for the header in the piece here, but figured nobody would mind as it’s just for promotion.
Thanks
AJ

Comment by Rosie

Made Wednesday, 9 of April , 2008 at 10:53 am

i read it as a kid, time for a reread maybe. how’re you getting on with The Diving Bell and the Butterfly?

Comment by aj@lecraic

Made Wednesday, 9 of April , 2008 at 11:53 am

Yeah, meant to post back on your blog about it. I read it on the way home on Friday and again Saturday morning, it was wonderful. Describing his son and how he couldn’t hold him made my heart break. It does make me realise that I should appreciate what I have more.

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Made Tuesday, 15 of April , 2008 at 9:15 pm

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