PAW – Penguin A Week (Preamble)

“Shelf A”

For a few years now I’ve really enjoyed the A Penguin A Week blog written by Karyn Reeves. In it, she has set herself the task of reading one of the pre-ISBN Penguin paperback books (of which there are 3,000) each week, and then writing a short review about them. It has really helped me investigate and enjoy this original line of influential books, many of which are classics and just as many of which are mostly forgotten, and helped broaden and even challenge my reading tastes.

And so, as a kind of tribute, but also as a way of sharing and perhaps inspiring a passion, I’m going to be blogging 52 Penguin books this year as well (without the knowledge or approval of Ms Reeves, whose site I heartily recommend that you visit, as well as  one of the sister sites which is all about the cover artists).

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