with Tilly Wrestleman Greetings friends! 'Tis almost that most Romantic time of year again. That especial day, when the gallant lover gets out the batter-pan and addresses the pancakes in honour of the Jewish Patron Saint of Scottish watercourses, Rabbi Burns. I am singing of that night when an heap of steaming crepes is laid out for the delectation of our lover and his lass, in honour of Sh...
Libraries at UK universities struggled to keep up with demand yesterday as students turned to traditional methods of research. Young academics found they had to read books for information as online resource, Wikipedia, shut down for the day in pro...
The English language is to receive a massive overhaul in 2013, say experts from the Guild Of Dictionary Writers. Spokesmen say that the language has become cluttered and over-complicated in recent years, with many new words being added and spellin...
Partially successful in two major industries during his peak professional years, Sandy Clay Livingstone was perhaps the best known secret of the literary world for founding the original Oxymora Dictionary, later in life. Recognizing the acute dull...
Librarian, Gemma Paddlworth, of Ryde has been fined nearly three thousand pounds in late fees for overdue library books. "It's quite embarrassing," said Gemma, 34 a single mother. "I'm the only librarian at Ryde Library, so when I discovered that...
Right Honourable David Cameron MP (Conservative) Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service. Recommended Book: The Importance of Being Eton By Nick Fraser. Right Honourable Nick Clegg MP (Liberal Democrat) Deputy Prime Minister, Lord President of the Council. (With special responsibility for political and constitutional reform) Recommended Book: Why V...
Amazon, the online all-in-one, uber efficient retailer has long been a pioneer in online retailing. Now they have gone one step further by allowing people to search their product base ordered not just by price or popularity, but also by colour. "S...
Police officers can now lawfully shoot those who mock the library fine system. "In some cases during the summer several thousand library books were not taken back on time throughout England. This is totally unacceptable, anti-social behavior which w...
Little Miss Muffet Kids Magazine has just announced their list for 2011's Ten Least Popular Christmas Children's Books. The list was compiled by the magazine's Senior Executive Assistant Publisher Jefferson Dante Quickowitz. Mr. Quickowitz personally read over 800 children's Christmas books plus he texted, emailed, and called up 27 other top executives whose companies sell children's Christmas...
Lawyers for top London publishing house, Stodgy and Wristflick have announced that they will be taking civil action against the team that put together this years surprise best seller The Dorking Review A spokesman for S&W's lawyers said today...
BOOK REVIEW God's Answers For Depression by Mindy Morganstern, Div.B. Yorma Linda Bible Press Some observers say that depression is an overdiagnosed epidemic run rampant. 9% of Americans suffer some form of depression (this figure includes manic, major, and disthymic-low-grade-depression.) More prescriptions are written for mood disorders than for any other condition, including high bloo...
With forecasters already predicting snow in October, and promising a long bone chilling winter, Britain's poor are being urged to burn books in order to stay warm this winter. The Departmment Of Fuel Bills expressed concerns that with the spiralin...
HARFOLD, Vermont--Freshman Erica Kater has been looking forward to her fall semester at Harfold State College for some time, in particular, because of one course: ENG 325--Great American Fiction. "As much as I've always loved fiction," said Kater,...
Introduction Hello there. Some people reading this will know who I am, or at least have heard of me, and some won't. A bit like real life really. Anyway, to cut a long story short, some years ago I came across an author named Guy N Smith, and quickly became a fan. Mr Smith wrote a series of bizarre horror novels for New English Library, and churned them out at a phenomenal rate, quite freque...
Today, lines were forming outside bookstores across the country as excited readers couldn't wait to get their hands on the latest classic remake. This time it's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice which gets an update, as publishers try to milk the pop...
The recent trends of Unschoolers, who basically are self taught on everything from spelling to physics, share a belief that children do not need classrooms and organized education to learn. Rather, they are on their own to do what they want anytime...
Just when I thought I'd finished reading all of the Existential books my grandfather had bequeathed me, it turned out I'd read nothing, and there was the box, full to the brim with books I'd not read. Having previously enjoyed reading the last lot of books I no longer had, I thought I'd give the new box a good seeing to. Armed with nothing more than a million candle storm lantern I had liberate...
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