We’ve had our April showers, now it’s flower season! Time to celebrate spring with this handcrafted felt bookmark which I can tell you is just soft and cushy as it seems.
Book: Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart? by Paul Thagard
If Miss Piggy says you should read then I guess you should. Otherwise she’ll karate chop you. I seem to remember that’s how she dealt with people.
Book: A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
Well, they were real people. But that was a couple of thousand years ago.
Mummies of the World was a traveling exhibition that I might have gone to see, but now I have no memory of it. I did keep the bookmark though!
Book: Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World by Bob Brier
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
Alex Good 