The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting

[Elizabeth]

This is the thread for our May Non-Fiction Group Read.

[Paul]

Cannot believe that one of my nominations won! :)

[Elizabeth]

I think it's a subject that a lot of us feel strongly about! Looking forward to reading it. I've just put in my request at the library!

[Ava Catherine]

Oh, I am excited about reading this book. : )
It sounds so interesting, and I love nonfiction.

[Elizabeth]

I have to go and pick up my copy from the library this morning. They emailed me whilst we were away. Hope they've still got it!!

[Elizabeth]

I've got it, but there's a note inside that says it's in great demand, and must be read and returned asap. Fast reading required!!!

[Paul]

I normally ignore those startling orange marks, mind you I'm almost always over my limit. I have had 21 books at one point....

[Ava Catherine]

I think it is amazing that a book about handwriting is in great demand.

Be still my heart. lol

[Elizabeth]

Just started reading it last night. I quite like the author's sense of humour. Will see how it goes.

[Paul]

Finished, and this is my review:
This is a book i was looking forward to reading thinking it would be of a similar vein to Just My Type: A Book about Fonts and Paper: An Elegy. In some ways it was, as Henshers enthusiasm for the subject is clear, but in other ways it was annoying.

The final two or three chapters on the Bic, and trying to purchase a particular fountain pen were great, but i didn't completely get the Witness chapters. And the footnotes were excessive in the extreme. If you have a foot note that goes over three pages, then surely that should have been part of the main text?

In all not bad, but as it promised so much it could have been so much better!

[Ava Catherine]

I love the story in the beginning about Gordon Brown's handwritten letter.