To be read.

Well, this has been languishing on my to be read pile now for six months, and realistically I know I'm not going to get round to reading it. I'm going to take it to the meet up in the Brewery Tap on Monday and if nobody there is interested, then I'll wild release somewhere in Peterborough after the meet.

I picked this up in the Brewery Tap today. Thanks, dododumpling. I'll see how I get on with it and then journal.

Released at CoffeeLink at BC meet-up

Picked up at the meeting today. It might be about to spend months on a third Mount TBR!!! :-S

Having said I wouldn't read this book straight away, it grabbed my attention and I've read it! Robert W. Fuller has an interesting theory that the rankism underlies more common "isms" such as racism and sexism. He also points out that, at different times, we are all either somebodies and nobodies, with our status changing because we do something as simple as ordering a meal in a restaurant where we are a somebody when compared to the waiter who servers us. He does makes some very valid points - why do we accept people with skill and ability in one area assuming they deserve respect when they move into other areas? An easy example is when sports stars move into advertising - does being a great footballer really mean somebody knows anything about crisps?

Fuller also goes on to suggest that getting rid of rankism would mean that we all treated each other with respect, accepting people as somebodies in their specialist field but not denigrating them when they are nobodies. The only slightly annoying bit, is Fuller appears to have no idea how we get from our currently rankist society to one without rankism. He looks to the movements on sexism and racism, and seems to regard these as the pattern to follow. However, while the levels of acceptable sexism and racism have changed we still don't live in a country that has no sexism or racism.

Local BookCrossers meet, from noon on the second Saturday of every month, at Coffee Link, on Neptune Quay. Why not come along and join us? We're easy to spot - we're the people sitting round a table covered in books!