I’ve got quite a few of these embossed leather bookmarks from heritage sites in England and Scotland, some gathered from a trip I took there in the 1970s and more recently sent me by a friend. This one, from the Cistercian Abbey Church of Holy Cross in Tipperary, Ireland, came from a yard sale closer to home. Which made me feel sad about what’s going to happen to my beautiful collection on the unthinkable event of my passing. Maybe someone will think that I visited Ireland at some point. But I never have.

Book: Ireland in the 20th Century by Tim Pat Coogan

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Happy Canada Day everyone! Even those of you not so lucky as to be here in Canada, enjoying the day off!

Book: Souvenir of Canada by Douglas Coupland

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We’re celebrating my 150th bookmark post with an erudite dragon that flew in all the way from England courtesy of the fabulous Fraggle!

Book: A Rainy Dragon Day by Julie Völk

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No, I never scratched any of these. Even if I did wonder what Punk Berry Penguin was like. According to the promo material (printed on the back) they are “KAPOW! (Kid Activated Power Scents!) Super Fun Scented Bookmarks Activated by Scratch Action!” I’d be concerned that some of that smell might come off on the book I was reading!

Book: A Natural History of Human Emotions by Stuart Walton

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Got this from some friends who went to California a couple of years ago. It’s another 3-D bookmark, this time of poppies along the coast. Very seasonal, and having a bookmark is the next best thing to being there!

Book: The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich by Evan Osnos

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Every now and then I leave a bookmark in its packaging. This is a good example. I think Lulu would look a bit naked, and a lot skinnier without it.

Not sure who I know brought me this back from Africa. But it’s part of my “Around the World” display now.

Book: Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse by Luke Kemp

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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

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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

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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

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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

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