I often work in the beautifully refurbished city library in Cambridge, tucked away behind the shopping mall in between Top Shop and new Look (I'm not making this up, honestly!)
Usually I set up my lap-top on a table in the biography or computing sections, but today it was busy and I had to search out a new place. I found myself in the uncharted territory of the Self-Help section.
Every time I looked up from my screen my eye was caught by a new and even more fabulously intriguing title than the last. On this shelf alone we see Motivation For Dummies, The Upside Of Irrationality and Don't Shoot The Dog. I've never read a self-help book (apart from everything ever written about how to stop babies crying in those desperate early days!) and now I'm wondering if I've been missing out. But with a supreme effort of will I carried on writing all day and did not allow myself to be distracted, even though I was sorely tempted by Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control (surely misfiled under Self-Help?) and the paradoxically titled Self-Esteem For Dummies. There's motivation for you!
These books seem funny to me and I always wondered who reads them. But then, knowing nothing about photography, I bought a book" Photograpy for dummies" and it was of great
Haha!