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Windmill’s Friday feeling

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.

3 Comments »

  1. stujallen says

    do publishers publish some books with the diagram in mind ,i wonder ? ,

    February 5th, 2010 | #

  2. Harvey says

    Personally I love ‘I Stopped Sucking My Thumb…Why Can’t You Stop Drinking’, but both it, and our own ‘Dog Hair’, were published well before the prize’s existence.

    What happens when you’re wearing a dog hair sweater and it rains? Ewww…

    February 5th, 2010 | #

  3. stujallen says

    yes do you start shaking ala dog when you come in from the wet ,strip and knit with style was good from last years runners up may be a companion piece to the dog knit book

    February 5th, 2010 | #

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