I had to take this picture from a different angle because it’s a mirrored bookmark and I didn’t want to show my phone’s reflection. I like how you can see through the stained glass windows, and it’s really quite a striking bookmark when you hold it up to a window.
Book: Universe of Stone: Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic by Philip Ball
A metal paperclip bookmark to commemorate the fact that the white stuff is back with us. Not a bookmark I’d ever want to put in a book, but a nice design.
Book: The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare
Jefferson and I have a lot in common. Not only do we both like books, but we both designed our own libraries to put them in! I don’t know if he collected bookmarks though.
Book: Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson by Gordon S. Wood
I’ve posted panda bookmarks before (see here and here), but this is a special one. Not because it comes from the Toronto Zoo but because it’s made, as the back of it proudly proclaims, “with real poo!” Or, at more length, it’s a “recycled and odorless paper product made from panda poo!” The company that does this says “We take the ‘oo” out of ‘poo’!”
Book: Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
I have a lot of Remembrance Day bookmarks but couldn’t get them all in one picture. So here are a few from 2021, put out by Veterans Affairs Canada, marking the anniversaries of battles that Canadians played a major role in: Beaumont-Hamel (on the opening day of the Somme offensive), Vimy, and Kapyong in Korea.
I’ve looked in bookstores this past couple of weeks and haven’t seen any new ones. I don’t think anyone does bookmarks anymore.
Book: Marching As to War: Canada’s Turbulent Years 1899-1953 by Pierre Berton
Handpainted on wood. Not sure what the flower is, as there aren’t a whole lot of flowers around here in November. But still very pretty.
Book: Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant
I think you have to say “scary stuff!” like Count Floyd said it on SCTV. And then make a werewolf howl. Happy Halloween!
Book: Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T. J. Stiles
I don’t read books on a tablet. I don’t even own a tablet! But this bookmark made me think of tablets because it’s ceramic and quite thick. Sort of like a domino tile. No chance of losing your place!
Book: The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Mot Endangered Resource by Chris Hayes
These promotional books aren’t anything special. You just pick them up for free at bookstores. But I love it when friends bring them back to me from other countries. Here’s one from Denmark.
Book: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Thanksgiving is just a few days away now. At least it is in this country. In the U.S. they schedule it for Christmas Eve or some such time.
Book: They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty by John G. Turner
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