BookCrossing storytelling fun Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Posted by Helen in Found books.Tags: bookcrossing, books, story, writing
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I’ve got a fun books-and-storytelling experiment to tell you about.
We’ve started an extra-special BookCrossing bookring for China Miéville’s Un Lun Dun. The lovely Dr Miéville took part in an event during The Lost World Read 2009, which gave us a chance to get him to sign the book. He’s dedicated it to “all the Book-crossers out there”!
To add something different to the bookring, we’ve asked everyone who takes part to include a postcard that tells a story about their home town (Un Lun Dun is the story of an alternative London). It can be fictional or true, but we want tales about everywhere the book visits.
So far we’ve had stories from London (a true story, written by our fictional character Aileen Adler, who enjoyed the book!), Edinburgh, Colchester and Derby – click on the thumbnail above to read them. When it leaves the UK, Un Lun Dun will travel to Ireland, Austria, South Africa, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the USA. Just think of all the postcards we’ll get when it arrives home in Edinburgh! Follow the book’s travels, and see all the postcard stories, by reading the BookCrossing journal entries.
(I think you all know about BookCrossing by now – visit www.BookCrossing.com or read our introduction if not!).
The Lost Book is an animated web series where you wrote the plot.
By the way, one of the “Lost Books” listed in Invisible Inc’s K.B.E. dossier was lost in Miéville’s Un Lun Dun rather than in the real world: “Oh, All Right Then”: Bartleby Returns. You can see it in Episode 3 or take a close-up look at the dossier.