The Addict

A song about books, or more accurately my possibly unhealthy little obsession with them.

For those who are interested, the books that Peter the Duck and his special friend are sitting on in the background behind me are a few of my favourites:

Watching the English, by Kate Fox
The Little Book of Mornington Crescent, by Garden, Naismith and Pattinson
The Talisman, by Stephen King and Peter Straub
Forgotten Voices of the Great War, by Max Arthur
Freedom from Fear, by Aung San Suu Kyi
My Stroke of Insight, by Jill Bolte Taylor
The Brain that Changes Itself, by Norman Doidge
Quirkology, by Richard Wiseman
King Leopold's Ghost, by Adam Hochschild
As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela, by Mark Thomas
Teach Your Own, by John Holt
The Song of the Dodo, by David Quammen
Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Goblins, by Spike Milligan and Heath Robinson
Myths to Live By, by Joseph Campbell
Matilda, by Roald Dahl
The Great Transformation, by Karen Armstrong
The Railway Man, by Eric Lomax
The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
Bad Science, by Ben Goldacre
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, by Bobby Henderson
Understanding Power, by Noam Chomsky
and by no means least the Calvin and Hobbes collection Something Under the Bed is Drooling, by Bill Watterson.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• addict
• books
• mymategeorge
• acoustic
• song
• hell
• heaven

[pimpslider]

Charlie & The Chocolate Factory is my favourite...!!

[MyMateGeorge]

@pimpslider Willy Wonka is just too much of a weirdo for me. Give me the straightforward, no-nonsense Trunchbull, anytime.