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“Closure” wins oddest book award
LONDON (Reuters) – Self-help manual “If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start With Your Legs” won this year’s oddest book title competition, The Bookseller trade magazine said on Friday.
The book took an impressive one-third of the 8,500 votes cast online in The Bookseller’s 30th annual competition.
Runner up “I [...]

And with the dawn, rejoicing

 
He awoke from a deep sleep to the deafening sound of silence.
For the first time in months–no, years–he felt rested.  Refreshed.  He peered through the darkness, looking for his companions.  Then he remembered.
The jeers and the taunts and the women wailing.  And the scent of blood and dirt and sweat and human decay.  Death.  And [...]

Equivalating Margaret Jones, Part II

Turns out, I’m not the only one was upset to learn Love and Consequences is a sham, an imposter.
Here’s what other writers had to say:
Writers Respond to a ‘Faux Memoir’ of Gang Life
by Karen Grigsby Bates
“Searing,” “heartbreaking,” “an unvarnished look at inner city life.” Reviewers raved about Love And Consequences, a memoir by Margaret P. [...]

Invoking Barbara Millicent Roberts

What can you say about your first Barbie?
I was five and, judging from the Kodak moment forever commemorating my birthday, pretty darn enamored with my new Best Friend.  She was everything a girl could ever want in a doll–hair you could brush, knees you could bend and more accessories than you’d ever [...]

Equivalating Margaret Jones

Main Entry: equiv-a-late
Pronunciation: ē kwiv′ə lāt
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): equiv·a·lat·ed; equiv·a·lat·ing
Etymology: back-formation from equivalent, from Northern Kentucky équivalation, from Middle French equivalacion, from e- + quivalate. 
Date: 2006
1: a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth [syn: prevarication]  2: making up stuff 
“Love and Consequences,” by Margaret (Peggy) B. Jones (Seltzer), is a fake.  [...]