{"id":331,"date":"2015-04-24T06:51:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T05:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/?p=331"},"modified":"2015-04-24T06:51:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T05:51:49","slug":"alphaday-11-season-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/alphaday-11-season-xi\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphaday 11 &#8211; Season XI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Alphas,<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Alphaday 11, Season XI\u2026 nice, neat numbers in Arabic and Latin! We\u2019re definitely trailing off now with only two more Alphadays this season: 14<sup>th<\/sup> May and 28<sup>th<\/sup> May. Please take note. There may be matters you want to discuss while we\u2019re still all mobilised. Now is a good time to have your say.<\/p>\n<p>The agenda for this Alphaday is still quite enticing, I think, and I hope you\u2019ll agree. You\u2019ll probably notice and regret the one missing item this time. There is no new brief. For that you\u2019ll have to wait patiently until the start of Season XII.<\/p>\n<p>The following items are on offer for your benefit and for your enjoyment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This bulletin from me<\/li>\n<li>The Log with your news edited by me<\/li>\n<li>The results of the colour challenge from Sue<\/li>\n<li>The collated entries for the body part(s) love letter from Geoff<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps even another showcase piece from Suzanne, if you\u2019re lucky!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m sure there\u2019s plenty in that lot to interest you on this Alphaday. Our challenges are certainly varied and each one allows us to explore new ways of expressing ourselves. I always find it interesting to see how differently even a simple topic can be interpreted. We\u2019re lucky to have such a varied group where each one gives their all and writes with engaging enthusiasm and verve.<\/p>\n<p>For my latest piece of writing I started by looking round my bookshelves for inspiration. I have bookshelves crawling up all my walls and wouldn\u2019t want it any other way. I know exactly what\u2019s there, even if it\u2019s such a long time since I read some of them that I\u2019ve forgotten the details. But I can take them out and remind myself.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m aware that most homes nowadays aren\u2019t as littered with books as mine is. I realise that I\u2019m probably becoming a sort of bookish Miss Havisham. Oh yes! There\u2019s plenty of dust and cobwebs in amongst that lot\u2026 and plenty of nostalgia as well.<\/p>\n<p>I started the main part of my collection when I was a student and we had to buy books. I\u2019ve got a lot of those Everyman cloth-covered hardbacks.<\/p>\n<p>Then there are art books, wildlife, history, geography, language and all sorts of reference books and dictionaries. Many are illustrated, some even extravagantly so.<\/p>\n<p>I know I can Google for information and I\u2019m quite addicted to trawling through the wealth of information that has become so wonderfully accessible.<\/p>\n<p>But I still find my own reference books useful, and they do have the advantage of no adverts popping up to disrupt my reading.<\/p>\n<p>My \u2018real\u2019 books sometimes have the most extraordinary underlinings and pencil notes in the margins. But that\u2019s not at all comparable!<\/p>\n<p>What I\u2019m working towards is to say that e-books can\u2019t give me the experience I have with my physical, real books. I read e-books and forget them. I find it hard to check back on passages once I\u2019ve finished an e-book.<\/p>\n<p>I go back to the books on my shelves again and again. They\u2019re not brief, superficial encounters; they\u2019re trusty, old friends.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why I think the printed book has nothing to fear from the rise of the e-book. It\u2019s not really a rival. It\u2019s a different commodity altogether.<\/p>\n<p>But you may think differently.<\/p>\n<p>Christine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 11, Season XI\u2026 nice, neat numbers in Arabic and Latin! 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