My bookcase is bulging

If you,like myself have a pile of books stacking up waiting to be read,take solace from this list of reasons why you haven't got around to reading them yet.

1. It's a book I feel like I should read.

2.It's part of a series, and I haven't read the earlier ones, yet.

3. Everyone I know is recommending it.

4. It's intimidatingly enormous.

5. It's a classic.

6. My reading stacks get wildly out of control.

7. The siren call of the bargain bin. (and I would add the 3 for 2 offer)

8. The author wrote something else we like.

9. It's a textbook or an assignment

10. We have a friend/crush who works at the bookshop, or in my case…

Ht-Norman Geras

The most pirated books in 2009

In reverse order


10. Fix It – How To Do All Those Little Repair Jobs Around The Home

9. Nude Photography – The Art And The Craft

8. How To Get Anyone To Say YES – The Science Of Influence

7. Twilight – Complete Series

6. Before Pornography – Erotic Writing In Early Modern England

5. Solar House – A Guide for the Solar Designer

4. The Lost Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

3. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Amazing Sex

2. Adobe Photoshop Secrets

You get the main theme running so perhaps no surprise that at No 1 it's the

The Kama Sutra



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What's wrong with your snake?

Thanks to Hattie Garlick over at Comment Central who has come across the 10 strangest books in the English language.

It is over on a site called Weird Book Room and amongst its top ten titles, What's Wrong With My Snake? A User-Friendly Home Medical Reference Manual and Impeccable Birdfeeding: How to Discourage Scuffling, Hull-Dropping, Seed-Throwing, Unmentionable Nuisances and Vulgar Chatter at Your Birdfeeder.

Borders teeters

Tragic news for the UK book industry as Borders looks set to dive into administration.

Its 45 stores employing 1100 people are at risk after it seems about to appoint BDO Stoy Hayward as administrator today.

As with many other book stores the company has been hit by the internet and competition from the supermarkets.

Its current owners Valco have tried to do a deal with WH Smith but that has reportedly faltered and HMV, the owner of Waterstone’s, is also believed to have been involved in discussions.