I also enjoy "Backlisted" podcast. This is a more focused discussion though, of just one backlisted book - although a great source for discovering books that have fallen out of fashion, print, or just deserving of more love. Hosted by Andy Miller - (who reads substantially more than 164 books in a year and does not crow about it) and John Mitchinson (publisher) they have a vast knowledge and always get great writer/publisher guests on who also know their stuff. Extraordinarily, everyone concerned has actually read the book under discussion, and doesn't get chippy when someone raises a question!Brilliant, thanks! Sounds like a podcast I might really enjoy
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Yeah that was...not his smartest move. My friend is a French citizen and she was worried enough about coming to visit her family in the UK this Christmas and not being let back in to France, never mind if you had no good reason to be in France in the first place.
I didn't realise his visa got cancelled
I travelled back to the UK from France over Christmas; on my way back home to France, there were only 6 people on the flight! Restrictions have lifted for reasons for travel here, but tbh I can't see him coming back and living in France - it'll be on to whatever poorly thought-through plan he has next to avoid growing up.I don’t mind Jack really but this annoys me too
you don’t even have to enjoy reading to be a librarian!I love Anne and her blog and podcast! She always has interesting guests with varied tastes. Great recommendation.It is indeed!
Exactly. One of my neighbours owns a mark 2 jaguar that looks just like Inspector Morse's car. I always admire it when I walk past. In Jack's world, that makes me a mechanic.I don’t mind Jack really but this annoys me too
The irony is, he wouldn't last five minutes as a librarian because he would be too busy arguing with the populace that they knew nothing and he was far superior to them.
Library User - 'Hi, I was wondering if you could point me towards 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'?...'
JE the Librarian - 'MOOD, I love that movie, Brad Pitt is such goals. I guess you could say... I've fallen down that PITT' *clicks and points at Library User, expectant smile on face as they figure out his hilarious pun*
Library User - 'Um... what?'
JE the Librarian - 'It's got such good ReverseAgingCore vibes.'
Library User - 'I-... I'll go and speak to another librarian now, I think.....'
He said he'd contacted his language school, and they'd allowed him to delay his French course for a month so he can get back due to restrictions lifting a bit now. As you said, even if he does go back, it's only a matter of time before he gets bored of learning French and wants to move on to some other thing.I didn't realise his visa got cancelled
Jack the Librarian waits until Library User has gone, then turns to the camera.
Jack the Librarian: "Well, that happened...
...Did I mention I read 164 books last year? Yes, while some were out there living lives, I was living vicariously through fictional wives. Get yourself a guy who can do both.
164 books. Some were bangers, some were clangers. Some were top tier, some brought me to tears. But let me tell you all about those creme de la creme, primo-dreamo, would-definitely-swipe-right-on-them nuevo classics that you all have to read."
The library manager walks by and eyes Jack with confusion.
Library Manager: "...Who are you talking to?"
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OMG I can hear his voice
Jack the Librarian, undeterred by the intrusion of reality, continues his self-aggrandisement:
Jack the Librarian: First, I read "The waves" by Virginia Woolf. (holds up book) And, not going to lie, at first, I was all at sea with that one guys. See
what I did. Getit? "see what I did?"/ "sea what I did?" Anyway, I read that beauty - why would I lie about it? - and I was not
afraid of the big bad woolf.
Next, we have a Harry Styles' recommendation of: "My Muppet Christmas". And - no spoilers - there are muppets, there is
Christmas. Five star read. (mouths: I LOVE YOU HARRY into camera)
I also read this, big doorstep - "War and Peace". It's about a war, in Russia. There's this guy who goes to war. Then there's
peace. Not going to mention the characters, or the plot, or, really anything at all in the book, but I totally read it, in only a couple
of hours, because I am that clever, and Oxford was WRONG! (starts blubbing)
OMG these Librarian Jack skits are top quality
In Jack the Librarian's latest video: "I judge books by their covers - then actually read them", he's decided that in addition to not being a librarian, he may as well go for broke and not be the Surveyor of the Queen's pictures too. Yes, he's now gone full BRIAN SEWELL on us, without (as usual) any of the requisite expertise.
So, we ae confronted by him rambling on about the cover art of books, desperately trying (and failing) to intellectualise what he's looking at. One novel, featuring two figures in a swimming pool, Jack reveals is remarkable because the people are "semi-naked". Presumably Jack enters a swimming pool wearing his three-piece tweed suit, cravat and fedora, as it is the required uniform for all Surveyors of the Queen's pictures? He then goes onto reveal that the picture of the swimming pool "has chlorine in it". Remarkable how publishing houses are now packing their novels with actual chemicals. Thank God he isn't handling a copy of "Snow Country" right now or he'd have frostbite. Then we're told the colour of the water on the cover (in case you are viewing him in black and white) is "green and blue - it looks like a hospital."
And that friends, is exactly where Jack ought to be confined right now, because clearly the tiny dried pea rattling around in his cavernous skull has finally come apart.
So, we ae confronted by him rambling on about the cover art of books, desperately trying (and failing) to intellectualise what he's looking at. One novel, featuring two figures in a swimming pool, Jack reveals is remarkable because the people are "semi-naked". Presumably Jack enters a swimming pool wearing his three-piece tweed suit, cravat and fedora, as it is the required uniform for all Surveyors of the Queen's pictures? He then goes onto reveal that the picture of the swimming pool "has chlorine in it". Remarkable how publishing houses are now packing their novels with actual chemicals. Thank God he isn't handling a copy of "Snow Country" right now or he'd have frostbite. Then we're told the colour of the water on the cover (in case you are viewing him in black and white) is "green and blue - it looks like a hospital."
And that friends, is exactly where Jack ought to be confined right now, because clearly the tiny dried pea rattling around in his cavernous skull has finally come apart.
I still love/hate him. If I still find him incredibly attractive, do I need help?
Urgh!! What do you find attractive about him??
I kind of have a weakness for smarmy guys. And I've mentioned it before but it got deleted, but he seems to have an overly large tongue. And if we're all agreed that he's not actually reading in bed then .....
I wonder what's going on in the Jack Edwards thread...
Yeah, I could have done without the mental image of his “overly large tongue” 
This is the one time I will mention someone's features and I don't wish to be mean, but as we're on the topic of features, when I showed my mum his video the other day, she pointed out how strangely low his ears are and now I can't unsee it
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