Friday, August 22, 2008

Funny Titles

While doing selections for collection development, I always have a good laugh when I read certain titles. I always say I want to write the titles down that sound funny or creative. So, today my favorite funny sounding titles are in no particular order: Fat Free and Fatal, A Case of Exploding Mangoes (this one caught my eye due to my great buddy here at the reference desk), The Legs are the Last to Go (in which case I disagree with the author... I wish there was a foot store where you could exchange your bad feet for a set of good ones...), Dogology (I really wanted to order the book just because of this cute title), Ted, White & Blue (just sounds funny) as does The Encyclopedia of Phobias, Fears and Anxieties (don't give that book to a hypochondriac), and Something on the Side. I generally love the food titled mystery series perhaps for the reason that I love food... Today I came across the most annoying subtitle: Hardworking man meets softhearted woman in this contemporary novel (I mean the entire inside cover??). I have to mention one of my all time favorite titles in creativity which is DomiKNITrix. What a clever title for a knitting book. I have also proposed a ban on titles that use boolean operators :-)