While we slept in, THE WEEK-END BOOK continued to work hard over the holiday weekend, and was featured in Daily Candy’s summer reading roundup:
“This season’s hostess gift. Adorable novelty item, first published in the UK in 1924, includes info on how to forecast the weather, make your own paper cups, plus suggestions about games to play in the country and a little pastoral poetry.”And also appears in Rain Taxi’s summer issue:
“This plethora of factoids distances itself from other books, such as the recent and ever popular Schott’s Original Miscellany, because of the gorgeous prose that disguises the lists and potential frivolity of The Week-End Book. In this way, the book demands to be read, not merely quoted at uncomfortable social gatherings. ... I could go on and on—there is much here to be enamored of, like the checkerboard tucked into the front cover. Did I mention there’s a checkerboard? If you are a dullard enough not to enjoy anything in this necessary tome, then at the very least get it for that. (Checkers not included.)”--John Mark
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