Things my girlfriend and I have argued about - Mil Millington

Once upon a time, there were books. You bought them in bookshops. Then there was the internet. After this, there were websites from which you could buy books. Then, as websites started to become more popular and almost as a natural progression, there were websites that decided to release books or release their content in book form. The Darwin Awards was possibly the first of these, a fun website that became a fun book (and, so far, three fun books), which weren’t terribly readable in the normal way. More recently, Belle De Jour’s “Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl” made it from weblog to hardback. Somewhere in the middle of these ...  Read the complete review

This book started off as a web site (http://www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com/) on which Mil Millington lists the various arguments he and his partner Margret have had over some of the strangest things. It's hilariously funny and it's given me loads of entertainment. He's also written a weekly column for the Guardian, which I admit I've never read. One day recently, I went back to the site to find that he'd written a book loosely based on the web site. Seeing as the website was so funny, I ordered the book from Amazon (in their logic-crumpling 3 books for £12 offer or each book at £3.99). In this book, Pel Dalton works at a ...  Read the complete review

If you have a bit of time to spare you might like to check out www.mil-millington.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/things.html - this is the new website of Things my girlfriend and I have argued about, exclusively revealed to readers of the authors news letter. 'Things' is a bit of a cult website you see. Honestly can't remember how I found it but I definitely remembered laughing a lot when I did. Writer Mil Millington has a German girlfriend called Margret (from the German M'Arg et meaning 'to be dangerously insane' according to the website) with whom he lives together with their two small children. They argue about absolutely everything. This ...  Read the complete review