Apparently this masterpiece is part of a million-selling 'Bible Cure' series – other maladies dealt with by the Creator include Candida and Yeast Infections, PMS and Mood Swings. The Haunted Vagina meanwhile brings new life to the eternal verity that 'It's difficult to love a woman whose vagina is a gateway to the world of the dead' nor is that the only book dealing with the terrible complexities of our nether regions, as Dr Don Colbert reminds us with The Bible Cure for Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

Then there's Do It Yourself Coffins: For Cats and People which might help you save a few bob during a bereavement, and – on a related note – who could pass up an opportunity to acquire The Amateur Taxidermist by Jean Labrie? The cover alone, in which a Jay Leno lookalike in a lumberjack shirt is closely scrutinising a stuffed budgie, is worth the $2.41 the cheapest copy is going for. No word on whether Gordon Brown is one of the unfortunates counselled. Other awesomely-titled tomes included People Who Don't Know They're Dead in which author Gary Leon Hill tells ' … a family story of how his Uncle Wally and Aunt Ruth, Wally's sister, came to counsel dead spirits who took up residence in bodies that didn't belong to them'. Alas the editorial review reveals that this is not an anti-terrorist guide for equestrians but rather: 'A clearly illustrated manual that shows equestrians how to prepare their horses for the unexpected, turning them into safer, more pleasurable mounts.' Oo-err, missus. My eye was immediately drawn to Rick Pelicano and Lauren Tjaden's amazing sounding Bombproof Your Horse. Even so, 'weird' cat and dog books are a little cutesy for me, and I was hoping for something truly jarring and unwieldy – even ugly.įortunately, stranger books were to come. Weird book of the week was Ductigami, the Art of the Tape, on the pages of which 'design visionary' Joe Wilson teaches the reader how to make 18 'wonderful and gray' objects out of duct tape, ranging from a baseball cap to a barbecue apron to a Halloween mask.īelow was a cluster of books about cats and dogs, including Is Your Dog Gay? and Know How to Clip A Poodle, which I freely admit is a skill I have always yearned to master. Crazy cookbooks, unusual animal books, how-to books that will teach skills you never knew you needed, books about hilarious hobbies, and books about every strange aspect of life you could possibly imagine and a few things you can't imagine … ' ' … a celebration of everything that's bizarre, odd and downright weird in books.

Bombproof Your Horse by Rick Pelicano