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Chronophobia and the #dailygrind/Rise & Grind?⏰đđđđđą
I see that tomorrow is 'Christmas Jumper Day' and in Australia (where I live) that would be as sane as wearing one of those around the streets of Singapore at this time of year, because over here it is the start of summer, not winter.
Funnily enough (Benjamin Stevenson is a stand-up comedian, by the way:-) Benjamin starts the prologue of his Christmas book off with this statement below.
Well, what do you snow know?
To be honest I had no intention of buying a book that night (and I didn't) but they handed out a booklet on the night with each author's up-coming book cover printed in it with the release date and the first chapter of their books to read ... to get you hooked I suppose?
Ironically, I would have bought a copy of the above book on the night, if it was available, but it wasn't coming out until October 22nd that year.
The reason I would have bought one was that there was an advent calendar printed in the booklet that was obviously a page also in the book that had door 4 and door 24 as the last two doors, and my late father drove a Brisbane Yellow Cab with the number 424 plus he grew up in the suburb the book talk took place in that night.
I was hoping to get a copy of the book to read last Christmas but only bought a copy this year when I went to buy the last Dan Brown novel and saw a copy of the book on the counter.
The catch was that the book was part of a two for one offer where if I wanted to buy 'Everyone this Christmas has a Secret' I had to buy his latest bank heist book, as well. 
Probably, a stabbing was my guess, but I guess I will never know?
Life is way stranger than fiction, I reckon:-)
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| 'Everyone this Christmas has a Secret' |
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| Usually the second Thursday in December |
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| Benjamin Stevenson - Everyone this Christmas has a Secret |
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| 'Everyone this Christmas has a Secret' |
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| Australia experiences massive 50-degree difference in first week of summer |
Snow in Australia in the first week of summer:-)
I've never been into these kinds of books before, but I took my son along to a Penguin Noir book talk featuring Benjamin Stevenson and some other crime fiction authors I hadn't heard of before on the 1st of August 2024 at The Loft in West End Brisbane ... because I had never been to The Loft in West End, Brisbane before, so here was my excuse to check it out:-)
Just like a motive for a crime can be weak, so can a motive be for going to a book talk:-)
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| The Loft, West End, Brisbane |
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| Benjamin Stevenson, far right (not politically I hope;-) |
I was hoping to get a copy of the book to read last Christmas but only bought a copy this year when I went to buy the last Dan Brown novel and saw a copy of the book on the counter.
Which I had no intere$t in buying at the time:-)
But I bought both books thinking that to me the bank heist book was the free one in this deal, not the other way round.
I'd gone to see the movie 'Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere' that day, and decided to see if the QBD Bookstore had the latest Dan Brown novel and walked out of the store with that novel, a bird book, a cat colouring-in book and two Benjamin Stevenson's novels, only to see that a crime had been committed in the shopping centre on my way back from the bookstore.
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Life is way stranger than fiction, I reckon:-)
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