Friday, 9 March 2007

Here are some Book Titles I've just heard about.

When I woke up this morning, the 'Today' programme was on, and they were discussing book titles.  I'm not at my best first thing in the morning, and the bits of radio reportage which manage to penetrate my consciousness often seem a bit surreal.  Today, in both senses of the word, was so surreal that I went and looked at their website to check whether I actually HAD heard what I thought I'd heard ...

Anyway, here are some of them:

'How Green were the Nazis?'

'D Di Mascio's Delicious Ice Cream:  D. Di Mascio of Coventry.  An Ice Cream Company of Repute, with an Interesting and Varied Fleet of Ice Cream Vans'

'The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America.  A Guide to Field Identification'

'Tattooed Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan'

'Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium'

'People who don't Realise they're Dead.  How they Latch on to Unsuspecting Strangers, and what to do about it'

I'm pretty sure I heard the last one.  It's not mentioned on their website, though, so it may just be a product of my imagination (shut up Chris!).

I think these are all wonderful titles, and I don't just want to read the books but illustrate them as well.

3 comments:

Maya said...

hehe...its amazing the titles that lie on the unsuspecting bookshelves of the world :)
I bought a book a few months ago with lists of bizarre book names...reading through it really puts a grin on your face!

Thanks for sharing Cathy :)

Cathy said...

Maya - did you ever see a book, published by Phaidon, called 'Boring Postcards'? It's one of the most wonderful art books I've ever seen; I've given it as a present to various people who I knew would appreciate it ...

natural attrill said...

I heard that programme too, inc the one about the dead, you are not imagining it!
P.x