So I went and made a thing, but the thing needs you, or it'll die, like Tamagotchi ( Read more... )

There's a literary tic practised particularly by journalists which I find irritating. It's the one in which a description of someone's personal characteristics are lazily folded into a sentence where they don't really belong. Here's a a couple of examples from THE CHILD SEDUCERS by John Steinbacher, a right-wing rant against sex education in ( Read more... )

A recent comment left on one of my sites:
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This is the sort of book I DREAM of finding and which comes my way rarely: a science primer for kids written by someone who is utterly unqualified for the job.

http://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/properties-and-powers-every-day-matters

Originally posted by darkspirited1 at SIGNAL BOOST: SAY YES TO GAY YA
This comes from an article by rachelmanija entitled, Say Yes to Gay YA.
(click the link for the full article)

Our novel Stranger has five viewpoint characters; one, Yuki Nakamura, is ( Read more... )

Review up now: http://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/other-side-coin

The Other Side of the Coin is a less than compelling defence of the apartheid-era South Africa by Patience Strong, who I knew only for the queasy Christian sentimental verses she'd written for women's magazines like those my mother favoured ( Read more... )

With such a title, you might conceivably expect this to be a bit exciting. But it isn't, not by normal standards. It is a collection of newsletters sent by a supplier to funeral directors during the Second World War, explaing why coffin prices are going up and similar matters. Why they thought this material was worth reissuing in book form is a ( Read more... )

This book has been with me for ages but I finally got round to writing about it, and the result amuses me, if no one else. (Please tell me you laffed, though, he begged needily).

http://oddbooks.co.uk/oddbooks/why-must-husbands-be-so-dumb

Hello dear lazyweb,

I got rid of my old hi-fi separates because they took up too much room. I was going to shed my vinyl collection as well for much the same reason, but I am reconsidering. Has anyone had any experience of any of these modern compact vinyl players? Recommendations?

Sound quality is a factor, but I am not anal about it.

Cheers!