Helping you through the other long, dark, tea time of the soul, it’s this week’s Friday Feeling!

We’ve already had totally stylish bookshelves, now here we have some weird and wonderful ways to reuse your old books. The book ball is neat, the book ’scrapbook’ looks like a flower has been sick on it. Oh well!

Stuart Evers argues in this lively blog post that confidence isn’t everything when it comes to good writing. (Largely I agree, though I’d also say that unless you have some confidence that the story you’re telling is worth reading then why would you bother writing it?)

‘The Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year’ is a long name for a frequently hilarious prize: you can help vote for the shortlist here. Our very own Hutchinson published a contender in previous years called Knitting With Dog Hair: Better a Sweater from a Dog You Know Than a Sheep You’ll Never Meet. So many questions about that book. So few answers.