Lurking Merkins - Volume Two of Under the Duvet of Darkness

[Boiledbeetle]

"Under the Duvet of Darkness Volume Two Lurking Merkins" is now live on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CMJZ43VZ

This a thread about a book about a thread about a book about a thread! (I think I’ve got the correct number of books and threads in there)

There are over 160 poems written by over 40 different Mumsnet usernames contained within its 208 pages.

There are also 12 Lurking Merkin poems lurking throughout the book!

It can take a few days for it to become fully searchable so the link below will take you straight to it:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CMJZ43VZ

It's available worldwide so if anyone needs the link for a site other than the UK let me know and I can give you the link to the relevant Amazon site.

IMPORTANT BIT:

Whilst written entirely by Mumsnet users this book is not, I repeat NOT, published with Mumsnet’s express permission or co-operation.

It is published with the express permission and co-operation of the individual writers themselves.

Can anyone who tweets about it link directly to the book on Amazon or my Twitter profile:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CMJZ43VZ
or
https://twitter.com/TheBoiledbeetle

rather than to this MN thread.

Thank you everyone who let me use their poems, without you there would be no book!

Boiledbeetle XX

Woo hoooo it's arrived

Yes indeedy. Here is the uncropped image. (To avoid another nibble I decided some photoshopping was in order.)

@Calyx72 woo hoo 🍾

@DialSquare @TessoftheDurbeyfields @Swashbuckled anything yet? Or are you all still constantly refreshing the delivery page on Amazon?

Oh fantastic! I love it!

Mine has arrived but just after I left for work 😕

Nooooooooo!

Mine has been posted through the letterbox but I'm at work. 😊

At least you know what you're plans are for when you get home!

Mine is 4 stops away. But I'm also at work so won't see it until I get in.

I an currently imagining you @Swashbuckled and @TessoftheDurbeyfields all constantly looking at the clock thinking "will this shift ever be over" then you all gather together for the Lurking Merkin bookclub!

On the way home. Delivered at 4pm apparently.

Finally!!!!

Well that's you all sorted for this evening

Page 82. Turn to page 82!

Poor lonely book sat on the mat just waiting to be picked up and read

Book is lonely no more. Although it didn't quite reach the mat as it was stuck in the letterbox! It seems no one else in my house heard it being posted.

Oooh! Some are better than I remembered but some are much worse 😆

You were on one that day! 😁 I like them!

Hello my precious..... Oh and hi Dial!

Happy 📚 reading!

Wow!

I’ve been dipping in and opening at random for a while. I don’t think I could read it from front to back yet; it’s a very powerful read.

Loving the Enlightenments @Boiledbeetle.
Adds a documentary depth.

Well done and thank you to @Boiledbeetle
and everyone. And thank you for including mine; I feel I am in good company 😊.

I love your poem! I think it book ends well with the first poem. I start off with a man declaring he's a woman and gaining access to the women toilets and you end with a man declaring he's a woman and gaining access to the women's toilets!

@Boiledbeetle

You’re right! I noticed that when I first cracked it open but then got lost in all the other thoughts.

Yes, it is a good frame to our words! (Genius editing 😊)

I was quite impressed i managed to bring it full circle back to where we started!

And, of course, it links nicely with the cover too ☺️

Did someone up thread say they were writing for the third volume 🤨.

Reading it tonight made me crack another one out. So, you know, if there is a third….@Boiledbeetle

It’s the rage that inspires me; the fucking rage, I tell you.

Sticks fingers in ears

La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la

Sorry did you say something i can't hear you with all the la la la ing going on.

All I can say is that any poems posted are posted on the understanding that if there was ever to be a volume three they would end up in it.

Of course at this moment in time I have no intention of ever writing or editing another poem ever again! But then I felt exactly the same after volume one and look how that turned out!

Right now I'd rather have my arse rubbed with a brick! Especially as Ive still got to check through the e-book version of volume two once I get it from FairyKindleMother. However I don't know when that will be as FKM is currently dealing with something serious that is outside of her control and that is way way more important than an e-book. So I still haven't finished with volume 2 yet!

But rage does make for good poems and I don't think we are past the rage stage of this whole shit show yet!