My brilliantly aptly named new series continues. Where I randomly select two books from my shelves and attempt to find a link. I do not promise it will be a good link, only that it will be a link. It might be anything at all. One thing I do promise is that the link will not be due to the books both containing words such as ‘and’ or ‘the’, although having said that it’d be really awesome to now find two books totally missing both of those words.
The books I chose last week were Weasel Words by Don Watson and People, Parliament and Politics by Walter Jona. Stay tuned to find out if I’ve actually got a link.
The Books
Weasel Words is a not-so-little tome giving you the tools to understand political or managerial speak. It has such gems as:
harvest
2. Something to do with balancing managerial risk-taking.
‘Network and participate in think tanks and harvest ideas to learn practically about the balancing of the managerial risk-taking…’
People, Parliament and Politics is a slightly weighty tome by Walter Jona about his views on various things mostly political.
The Link
I’ve got two links today and only two. I’m counting, unlike two weeks ago.
The first is that they both have green covers.
The second is that Weasel Words can help you understand People, Parliament and Politics. Bearing in mind here that I’ve not read either book and am looking at the blurbs and covers.
I thought there was some aptness here. A week or so ago I was listening to the radio and the person being interviewed accused someone else of not ‘telling the truth’. The interviewer asked if that meant ‘they were telling lies’, the answer was in the negative. I’m not sure what world this person is living in, but in my world not telling the truth is the same as lying. Yes, you guessed it, there was a political component there.
Next Week!
Next week but I’ll do my best or worst. We’ve got My Brother Jack by George Johnston and Penelope Bungles to Broome by Tim Bowden. Stay tuned to find out if I’ve actually got a link. I promise I’ll try to be entertaining.