when only the best will do

 

Are you one of those people that loves to sing along with radio ads?!

 

Didn't think so.

 

But for those who are, here's a CD full of them.

Golden tunes like Happy Little Vegemite, Aeroplane Jelly, Benson and Hedges, Toyota - Oh What A Feeling, Nigger Boy Soap Pads (seriously), and Hard Yakka.

Surely you'll want this on repeat on a long car trip.

 

sweet dreams. darling.

Hubby found this on Amazon.com (heaven knows what he was looking for!)

 

But with chapters like;

 

"Your upstairs neighbour kills people"

 

"I said not to touch that"

 

and

 

"No, it isn't just the wind",

 

it's sure to be a big hit with the littlies.

judgement day

Look I have to draw your attention to www.judgeabook.blogspot.com.au for their outstanding contribution to the discovery of WTF books.

I mean with such gems as...

...you can see my argument here, right? I mean this is A1-quality weirdness. Bravo.

come up here and take a bow

awfullibrarybooks.net !!!

This is a truly worthy find! I mean, owl-headed naked women and breast balloons: What more could you ask for?

2012 eclectic reader challenge: march - literary fiction (take 2)

Incase you missed it, the genre for January was actually literary fiction, but I stuffed up and read a romance instead. Sothis month I read a literary fiction text to make up for it! (whoopsie)

Imagine what would happen if Mary Poppins arrived on the set of 'Deliverance'. 

That pretty much sums up this story, a satirical dig at the Victorian fiction genre,  about educated and civilized Flora, who goes to stay with her backward - inbred?! - cousins the Starkadders at their farm Cold Comfort Farm. I was constantly snorting and giggling at this ridiculous little story, where characters have names such as 'Caraway' and 'Mybug', the cows just randomly lose limbs without anyone's notice, and the family matriarch keeps the whole farm under her control by feigning madness from having seen 'something nasty in the woodshed' (no, you don't find out what!) :S

Think Edgar Allen Poe meets James Herriot. And then throw in Pollyanna. Couldn't help but giggle. I gave it 4/5 on Goodreads.

Join in!

unless u hav musophobia (fear of mice)

Found this children's book "Little Mouse's Big Book Of Fears" and thought it was worth a post. It's designed to be used as a scrapbook where kids can express their fears and explore them, on the premise that "A fear faced is a fear defeated".

ie Ailurophobia: Fear of cats.

But... um... some of these pages are quite... dark. And a bit disturbing. In fact it wouldnt surprise me if ur kids developed a few more phobias after reading this one! O.O

Hydrophobia: Fear of water.

Aichmophobia: Fear of knives

Clinophobia: Fear of going to bed.

oooohhh, tough choice...

And just incase that's not enough 'weird' for you, head over to the "HOOKERS OR CAKE" website and get enough 'weird' for a week.

...what are you waiting for???

it needs two exclamation points!!

Look, honestly, even if you aren't going to buys this (and I don't know how you could resist) go over to Amazon and just read the reviews.

They're the most entertaining thing about this book!

god bless you, japan!

This one's been around a while, but just got given a copy of my very own and HAD to blog it!

Mostly they're ridiculous (*snort!*) but occasionally I think: "Hey...YEAH! That would be AWESOME!" :)

ok, but does it really require 170 pages?

it was just your average sunny day on the bookmobile...

*Cue ambient 'Morning Has Broken' style muzak*



The winter breeze was brisk. The regular borrowers were out and about. The bookmobile was parked as usual in a quiet South Coast seaside village, under some eucalypts, near the inlet.



The birds were calling, the laptop on our circulation desk was cheerfully beeping as it scanned the returns.

And then...



Someone - no, I didn't see who - returned THIS.

I. Had. To. Have. It.

Well with pictures like this...









...I just had to know more.

So I flipped over to the back cover for the blurb:

"this book is... a series of fascinating essays which chronicle a diverse spectrum of real people whose lives have been governed by inner voices, sexual aversions, bovver, interplanetary heroics, and UFO magazines. From lesbian vampires and death cults, through to lobster boys and the anonymous pamphleteer of Drug Virus Germs, Bizarrism has them all."

!!!

Wow this book has it all!

Wow: LOOK at this table of contents...

Wait...

Why??? Who??? What are these ticks for???

And why do chapters entitled "The Wonderful World of Mormons" and "Mary's Voice Box" warrant TWO TICKS???

O.o

is this why kewpie dolls never took off in asia?

I know it's not a book, but Maximoo & I had to share this WTF kewpie-esque doll she found at the markets this morning.

Creepy, no?