Mary’s Pad

The internet is a wonderful thing! If nothing else, it provides me with an amazing stream of useless but entertaining information.
The BookSeller Magazine is now accepting votes for the 2007 Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. Here are the titles that made the cut:

I Was Tortured By The Pygmy Love Queen
How […]

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Yes he is, he told me so this morning. I have absolutely bored him into his shell, and I am slowly boring myself into mine. I’ve started wandering downstairs to talk to the turtle just for something to do — that can’t be good. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I […]

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“HOPE” is the thing with feathers–
That perches in the soul–
And sings the tune without the words–
And never stops — at all–
And sweetest — in the Gale — is heard–
And sore must be the storm–
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm–
I’ve heard it in the chillest land–
And on the strangest Sea–
Yet, never, in […]

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I’m not in the habit of consuming energy drinks, except for the odd Red Bull (thanks Jim for the habit). This evening I drank an energy drink, I don’t even remember what it was called, but I was feeling pretty tired and I had stuff to do and it said “energy drink” - what […]

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I’ve been thinking a lot about how afraid we are to make mistakes. Life takes courage, and I think the reason that many of us live mundane and ordinary lives, (not that there’s anything wrong with that), is that we’re inordinately afraid of making mistakes, of messing up, of looking stupid.
So many times […]

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