Saturday, February 23, 2008

Not So Odd

Am I jaded? I don't think that this year's nominees for the UK's Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year are actually all that odd. The six finalists are
That's what goes for odd these days? Last year's nominees are lunatics by comparison, with gems including
  • 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 Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan, and
  • Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Seaweed Symposium

The 2008 winner will be announced March 28.Wake me when it's over.--David E

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