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Sarah B

Andy, I do live in Birmingham. Smile

<--- my location is a red herring, and an in-joke, all in one. Sadly, it's an in-joke with myself, which makes it a little pathetic, but never mind. Us academics have to get our laughs where we can! lol

I was also going to tackle the Birmingham Waterstones, on Sunday. You're welcome to try before me though, might save me a trip! It's a huge place, so if you don't find anything tomorrow then I'll just look again Sunday.

I look into the Google spreadsheet. Smile

EDIT: It's up here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p9UE0PA0WZIsuzr_MdTiBOw&hl=en_GB#
Send me a pm if you'd like to be added to the share thingumy.

**Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:00 pm

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echidna

I couldn't make it to Nottingham Waterstone's today - stupid work getting in the way again Razz

- but will definitely go tomorrow.

In the meantime, I'm trying to complete the Classic Book Quiz that Mr Fforde, or is it Ffforde?, set us and I'm completely stuck on Q11 - the one about the occult researcher. Is there anyone who's got this and could give me a shove in the right direction? I've got all the others and am more than happy to trade answers with someone.

**Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2007 6:45 pm

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Canzonett · Unfettered Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 489 Location: Munich

Still nothing new on the blogs. Good or bad sign?

I only wish I could join the bookhunt!

**Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:29 am

echidna

I've been all round Nottingham Waterstone's today and no joy Sad

. Admittedly I was suffering from a severe case of book-blindness by the time I'd gone through all 4 floors so I might have missed it if it was towards the end but I hope not.

On the sort-of plus side, I did nearly bankrupt myself with all the lovely new books I just had to buy Embarassed

, including a copy of The Annotated Alice in anticipation of Alice is Lost! starting. Still no luck on that occult researcher Classics Quiz question though, despite spending a good quarter of an hour staring at the Classics section in the vain hope of some inspiration Wink

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**Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2007 7:27 am

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myf

No luck in Fareham after a hellish trip down the M3. I'm wondering if i can make it to Swindon or Yeovil as well today

**Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2007 8:45 am

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Canzonett · Unfettered Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 489 Location: Munich

What are
(1) the scribbler lines
(2 the books & their misplacement
(3) the verses we find in them
supposed to tell us?

It's obviously about relations between books and other books, between books and their genres, between books and their identity. Are we supposed to deduce a certain tendency of change from the material we are gathering here? Or is there a key clue, a central and decisive verse hidden somewhere in one of the misplaced books?

I really wish I was living in the UK near one of those booksshops or libraries ...

**Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2007 9:58 am

Sarah B

I'm currently standing in Cheltenham Waterstones losing what's left of my sanity. No sign of the Dupine, though quite a few posters advertising the Fforde signing on the 11th. I'm highly disappointed! Sigh.

**Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:59 am

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Punishinator · Greenhorn Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 8

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**Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:12 am

myf

Grrr

**Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2007 12:18 pm

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Sarah B

Success! I've found Alice in Wonderland in the Cheltenham Waterstones. Smile

I'd actually given up and left, but my boyfriend wanted to go back to buy a book so I used the time to go back over a couple of places. I was convinced it should be in classics, but as I was staring at the shelves I realised no-one would shelve something like Alice here, it would be with the childrens books! So I went around to children's fairy tales and classics and sure enough, sitting on the shelf, there she was. I don't think I've ever been as excited about finding a book in my life! Smile

I'm still in Cheltenham at the moment, but I'll post up the photos as soon as I can. The verse was the Wind in the Willows one and there were no other pages with anything on.

**Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:07 pm

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Jaybird

Awesome :

Well done, miss Sarah!

That's 8 books found, 4 left?

Great Expectations, Three Men in a Boat, The Man Who Was Thursday and Frankenstein are still out there, and apparently two of them are still in Foyles.

Anyone good to re-check London?

**Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:17 pm

myf

Well, I'm home now after my somewhat lengthy trek round southern England. I don't know if I'm really unlucky with this, and most of the places I can get to don't have these wretched things, or if I'm just lousy at spotting them. Either way, my eyes are boggled now after driving on lots of motorway and staring at two shops full of books! I think I'm going to be spending the rest of the day looking something like this: Shocked

Oh well, an expedition to High Wycombe tomorrow afternoon should just about finish me off.

As for the places where apparently none of can explore, maybe we could enlist a few people on the quiet from the Fforde fforum? I think it's the only way we're going to cover places like Whitby, as they seem too far away for any of us to get to.

**Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:12 pm

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Etta · Guest

Looking in Whitby

**Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2007 4:11 pm

myf

It'll be a great help if you can have a look around, thanks Very Happy

**Posted:** Sat Jun 30, 2007 8:01 pm

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