I was going to save my comments on the World Book Night give away until the event itself, in April. But this article at The Guardian.co.uk amused me so much that I can barely contain myself.

Alison Flood of The Guardian, is, like myself, participating for the first time this year, but not without a qualm:

It doesn’t help that I’ve ended up with my second choice, Let the Right One In, rather than my first, I Capture the Castle. I would have been happy foisting Dodie Smith onto practically anybody – no one could possibly be offended by her charming story of growing up in a crumbling castle.

Alison envisages herself giving out John Ajvide Lindqvist’s “gruesome and disturbing” novel in a park with her daughter, which she feels might not be “quite appropriate for toddler-chasing mums.”
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