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
bookmarks
Bookmarked! #115: More Scary Stuff
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
Bookmarked! #114: Tablet
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
Bookmarked! #113: Kafka Offshore
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
Bookmarked! #112: Turkey Day
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
Bookmarked! #111: Oh, Garfield
Bookmarked! #110: Souvenirs of Scotland
More embossed leather bookmarks from my (one and only) tour of the U.K. in the year 1976. And yes, I was wearing short pants.
For some reason I seem to have picked up a lot of these in Scotland, even though I don’t remember being there very long. I’ll have to see if I can find my (one and only) journal from the trip and post pics.
Book: Black’s Law Dictionary
Bookmarked! #109: Tassel Time
Many bookmarks come with tassels. They just seem to go together.
Book: The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall by Eliot A. Cohen
Bookmarked! #108: May the Bookmark Be with You
Princess Leia reads books. Darth Vader reads books. Yoda reads books. Maybe not on screen (at least I don’t remember ever seeing any of them with a book), but they do in this set of magnetic bookmarks.
Book: The Great Movies by Roger Ebert
Bookmarked! #107: Bookstores No More XV: Highway Book Shop
The Highway Book Shop (a.k.a “Northern Ontario’s Unexpected Treasure”) was located on a stretch of Highway 11 (at 1,800 km the second-longest highway in Ontario) just outside of the town of Cobalt. At one time the fourth-highest producer of silver in the world, Cobalt now has a population under 1,000. And if you’re ever planning on visiting, it’s really, really out there.
The Highway Book Shop was a husband-and-wife operation that began life as a print shop in 1957. I don’t know how much foot traffic they ever had, despite being a local tourist attraction, but they did have a presence online. They closed doors in 2011.
Book: Galore by Michael Crummey
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