Book flaunting?

[AuntDaisy]

Am I over-reacting, or is Alan Davey flaunting his book, "Sagas of Warrior Poets", in this Twitter post? (The pint does look tempting.)

Any suggestions for other books to flaunt? Humphrey Carpenter's "The Envy of the World: Fifty Years of the Third Programme and Radio Three" springs to mind.

[french frank]

Am I over-reacting, or is Alan Davey flaunting his book, "Sagas of Warrior Poets", in this Twitter post? (The pint does look tempting.)

Any suggestions for other books to flaunt? Humphrey Carpenter's "The Envy of the World: Fifty Years of the Third Programme and Radio Three" springs to mind.

When you say 'his book', of course, you mean his (rather new-looking) Penguin copy, not The Book Wot He Wrote. I had fleetingly thought it might be 'product placement' but merely a …

[AuntDaisy]

When you say 'his book', of course, you mean his (rather new-looking) Penguin copy, not The Book Wot He Wrote. I had fleetingly thought it might be 'product placement' but merely a …

Yes, I could have phrased that a little better

[kernelbogey]

Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

[Jonathan]

A well thumbed copy of "A Brief history of time"

[french frank]

A la recherche du temps perdu (Pléiade edition)

[gradus]

Zoom-ing with books - carefully selected titles - displayed behind you; Proust, Gibbon certainly but perhaps something more contemporary or of a rarefied intellectual nature. Grove's wouldn't be a bad choice on here.

[french frank]

Zoom-ing with books - carefully selected titles - displayed behind you; Proust, Gibbon certainly but perhaps something more contemporary or of a rarefied intellectual nature. Grove's wouldn't be a bad choice on here.

You tempt me I bought the complete Grove (c 1980 ed) just before it was put online and the hardback version was being advertised very cheaply; Proust I can also do, but the best I can manage instead of Gibbon is a one volume short school edition of Theodor Mommsen's The HIstory of Rome. I have never Zoomed in front of my bookshelves (well I've only Zoomed once and don't have a strong wish to do so again).

[jayne lee wilson]

I once travelled into town every Saturday in pink denim jacket and black pvc jeans(**), ostentatiously reading the NME on my way to the Record Shops; making sure to take out the precious vinyls of left field and indie releases on the way home......(and always very happy if the titles/bands were almost impossible to make out in the artwork)...

Years later.... same scene but with the Gramophone and (a little - double denim ) more soberly dressed..... but by then I usually left the 5 or 6 CDs in their HMV bag (maybe peeking at the spines) until I got home, there to gloat upon my treasure....

Don't recall flaunting books as such, but shamefully admit to leaving certain periodicals (& The Guardian) on display for whatever rare visitors...
But usually only the Cats see them.

(**) Signing on in this outfit (as it turned out, for the last time) I had a slice of Pizza thrown at me accompanied by loud jeers; luckily it missed the Pink and skidded under my boot....I guess you can flaunt more than books or other publications....

That local Jobcentre shut down the very next week.

[gradus]

I once travelled into town every Saturday in pink denim jacket and black pvc jeans(**), ostentatiously reading the NME on my way to the Record Shops; making sure to take out the precious vinyls of left field and indie releases on the way home......(and always very happy if the titles/bands were almost impossible to make out in the artwork)...

Years later.... same scene but with the Gramophone and (a little - double denim ) more soberly dressed..... but by then I usually left the 5 or 6 CDs in their HMV bag (maybe peeking at the spines) until I got home, there to gloat upon my treasure....

Don't recall flaunting books as such, but shamefully admit to leaving certain periodicals (& The Guardian) on display for whatever rare visitors...
But usually only the Cats see them.

(**) Signing on in this outfit (as it turned out, for the last time) I had a slice of Pizza thrown at me accompanied by loud jeers; luckily it missed the Pink and skidded under my boot....I guess you can flaunt more than books or other publications....

That local Jobcentre shut down the very next week.

Black pvc jeans - above and beyond the calf of duty.

[jayne lee wilson]

Black pvc jeans - above and beyond the calf of duty.

They were tight at the top, flared at the bottom, and covered all but the toe of my black suede boots....
Quite a few people asked where I got them.....I think it was TKMaxx...

[Bryn]

They were tight at the top, flared at the bottom, and covered all but the toe of my black suede boots....
Quite a few people asked where I got them.....I think it was TKMaxx...

I bet they did not cost as much as May's brown leathers.

[jayne lee wilson]

I bet they did not cost as much as May's brown leathers.

No... but they created more friendships than they destroyed...

[Bryn]

No... but they created more friendships than they destroyed...

[teamsaint]

I once travelled into town every Saturday in pink denim jacket and black pvc jeans(**), ostentatiously reading the NME on my way to the Record Shops; making sure to take out the precious vinyls of left field and indie releases on the way home......(and always very happy if the titles/bands were almost impossible to make out in the artwork)...

Years later.... same scene but with the Gramophone and (a little - double denim ) more soberly dressed..... but by then I usually left the 5 or 6 CDs in their HMV bag (maybe peeking at the spines) until I got home, there to gloat upon my treasure....

Don't recall flaunting books as such, but shamefully admit to leaving certain periodicals (& The Guardian) on display for whatever rare visitors...
But usually only the Cats see them.

(**) Signing on in this outfit (as it turned out, for the last time) I had a slice of Pizza thrown at me accompanied by loud jeers; luckily it missed the Pink and skidded under my boot....I guess you can flaunt more than books or other publications....

That local Jobcentre shut down the very next week.

No Thursday ( or Wednesday when I was in London IIRC) was complete without the NME under my arm.
I was on- trend just once, for a very short time, when Echo and The Bunnymen were bursting onto the scene and I managed to get hold of a long darl grey trench coat without paying too much. Bloody hot in summer though…
The Saturday trip into town , ideally Bath which had fab record shops, ( alternated fortnightly with the football ) was the highlight of the week/ fortnight. And a selection of the hottest indie singles was usually the haul. Happy days.

Edit. I always used to scour the small ads for rare releases that were for sale. Never could afford any of them, never ordered any. Don't know why I bothered really.