Ahem!

So! The dreaded first post. I'll leave Samuel to fill you in on the details*, but suffice to say that this blog will be about reading, lists, Yann Martel and a Canadian politician, and perhaps, mayhaps, we might even dribble out some comments on book covers. Who knows?

Your hosts - Sir Samuel of Serendip, and yours truly.

Our first book: Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych.
 



*I think this is symptomatic of how this blog will run: I sally in, where angels fear to tread, and poor Samuel has to come and mop up the mess.