Don't tell me to do the maths

At last! A book for people who love both music and Venn diagrams: 'Venn That Tune', "bringing the poetry of maths to the magic of pop". Because there's just too much wooliness and fuzzy logic in music. So, prizes for guessing which VTT T-shirt I've gone for - answers in the comments box.*

It's almost as good as the book we've bought for a friend's birthday...

Also worth a mention on the newly published front is Christian Bok's avant-garde novel 'Eunoia'. Eunoia, as if you didn't already know, means "beautiful thinking" and is the shortest word in the English language to use all five vowels (and hence an extremely good one for a Scrabble buff like me to know). The novel's conceit is that it has five chapters, each one univocalic. A cheap trick, you might think, but very hard to execute with the quality that Bok manages. Sample passage: "Hiking in British districts, I picnic in virgin firths, grinning in mirth with misfit whims, smiling if I find birch twigs, smirking if I find mint sprigs.".

* There may not be actual tangible or even virtual prizes.