Apparently there are a lot of mystery bookstores all over the world called As the Plot Thickens. This one was in Kingston and I do remember being in it in the 1990s. I don’t know when it closed.
Book: The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories ed. by Otto Penzler
Ramona knows! Of course, sometimes the buildings aren’t forever, as a previous post showed. But the idea of the library keeps going.
Another little bookmark I picked up, almost certainly at a library, in the 1980s. No DVDs to borrow back then. You signed out films by the reel!
Book: The Castle by Franz Kafka
Take a book to bed instead . . . of what? A bottle? A blonde?
I don’t know when I picked these up, but it says they were printed in the mid-1980s which sounds about right. Bookstores and libraries used to always have stacks of free bookmarks like these at the checkout but now you rarely see them.
Book: Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art by Rochelle Gurstein
These are four bookmarks from a set of 30. There are a lot of sets sold like this and if you like the particular theme (I have sets of old maps and paintings by Van Gogh) I think they’re pretty nice.
Book: Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century by Orville Schell and John Delury
Things are getting warmer in these parts, the snow is all melted and this little pewter bookmark struck me as something seasonal.
Book: Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
Some friends just returned from a cruise on the Danube, and brought me back a little gift that they knew I’d appreciate. This is a bookmark of the Hungarian House of Parliament.
Book: Twilight of Empire: The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs by Greg King and Penny Wilson
I keep thinking Brass Butterfly was the name of a proto-metal band in the ’60s, or a kung-fu master in a martial arts film of the same era. Around here though they’re bookmarks.
Book: Orbital by Samantha Harvey
But why an “S” bookmark? Well there is a reason, but it may have to remain one of life’s sweet mysteries, dear readers.
Book: The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black
A lot of these paperclip bookmarks are silly, novelty items. Here are a couple I posted pics of a while back. I think this one really takes the cake though. I don’t know who even would come up with the idea. But it looks funky!
Book: The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe by Josh Mitchell
This is another see-through plastic bookmark that I think works really well. Books on top of books on top of books!
Book: Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary by Henry Hitchings
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