1st September Reading festival gets poor review from bookworms


A middle class couple from a sleepy suburb of Nottingham were today recovering in a BUPA style convalescent home after mistakenly attending the Berkshire based Reading Festival under the assumption that it was actually a gathering of book lovers. Tom Bookworm and his fiance Emma Pageturner, who both work as librarians, decided to buy tickets for this weekends ‘Reading’ Festival after being lured by what they thought was the promise of some relaxing downtime with other literary types.

"We couldn’t understand why our friends giggled when we told them where we were going," explained Emma, "We just assumed they thought it was a bit of a bus man's holiday but then again we do like a bit of light travel. And we did hope to meet Richard Osman if he was there and maybe get him to sign our copy of Thursday Murder Mystery Club."
"But having gone away hoping for a little romance, the whole thing developed into a tragedy before ending up a real horror story" Tom lamented. "Despite all the drama of finding ourselves penned into a massive arena with thousands of horny teenagers, we found we needed a little self help to confine this comedy to history. And despite this whole tale being fact not fiction or even fantasy, quite how we found ourselves to be the main characters in such a plot remains a mystery."
Tom and Emma's mistake is after all an easy one to make. Anyone might think 'Red Hot Chili Peppers' was a cookery book, 'Chvrches' a book on dyslexia, 'Imagine Dragons' the next installment of the Game of Thrones series and 'The Vaccines' , the latest Covid related medical thriller. Well anyone who is a librarian.

 

 

 


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