"Essentially, the idea is to arrange two or more books so that the titles, when read in the order they appear, make sense (or at least coherent nonsense) as a collective. As a form of amusement it can accomodate a variety of approaches: some might think of it as a form of poetry, others primarily as a form of humour. If you have some books, a digital camera, a blog, and the inclination to put them all together, you really should have a go."
http://outerhoard.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/bookmash/
We have some strange books in the Diabetes UK library and archive, and I've not even started on our 'Book Exchange' (staff bring in old books / videos / DVDs, swap for new ones and donate 50p) and I wondered if any of them might lend themselves to some bookmashing.
Hummingbirds of North America using research in primary care
Homoeopathic first aid - know your chances
Henry Wellcome eats shoots, and leaves Google inventing the 20th century
Hummingbirds of North America using research in primary care
Homoeopathic first aid - know your chances
Henry Wellcome eats shoots, and leaves Google inventing the 20th century
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h/t @edyong209 for tweeting this in the first place
ReplyDeleteGood to see you had fun with this!
ReplyDeleteThe Google one seems a little ambiguous. You could interpret it to mean "Henry Wellcome eats, shoots, and leaves Google [to get on with] inventing the 20th Century", but you could also interpret it to mean "Henry Wellcome eats, shoots, and leaves Google, [thereby] inventing the 20th Century". In the first interpretation, Google does the inventing, whereas in the second case, Henry does.
I hope you'll do more, particularly ones that include at least three books. In my opinion, two-book mashes whet the appetite but don't quite satisfy.
Thanks for your comment :)
ReplyDeleteI meant the first meaning for Henry, and hadn't spotted the second meaning actually!
Quite agree that three or more books would be better - but I am new to this. However I am determined to find more, I think this will keep me entertained for some time.
Well, we're all new to it, really. :-) (That is, all of us except Nina Katchadourian, who's been at it since 1993.)
ReplyDeleteThe second example in my blog post started out as a two-book mash ("making money out of the silent planet"), but I didn't feel it was worth publishing until I'd added the additional books. This is probably just a personality thing - with you being perhaps naturally inclined to publish your ideas spontaneously, and me relatively more inclined to sit on them for a while if I think I can improve them. Just speculating here. There's room in the world for both approaches.
The homeopathy one is nice. :-)