Nope. I’ve never been to New Zealand either. But somebody did get me a nice bookmark when they went! According to a note on the back it’s made from “Native Paua Shell and Rimu Timber.”
Book: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
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Bookmarked! #89: Hungry Like the Wolf
This is the second 3-D bookmark I’ve posted on (here’s the first). The problem is you don’t get the 3-D effect from a picture like this. You have to look at it from different directions so that the wolf seems to be moving.
Book: Nostradamus: The Evidence by Ian Wilson
Bookmarked! #88: Reporting on the Afterlife
A great collection of literary essays (reviewed here), and you know every great book deserves its own bookmark.
Book: A Report on the Afterlife of Culture by Stephen Henighan
Bookmarked! #87: Throwing Darts
Basically these “book darts” are a variation on the paperclip bookmark, but gentler on the pages. You can use these without causing any damage to the book at all.
Book: Chaucer’s People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England by Liza Picard
Bookmarked! #86: The Luck of the Irish
When I was a kid I used to look for four-leaf clovers. Not sure if I ever found one. If I did, I might have stuck it between the pages of a book. That’s what you did with things like that, in times long ago.
Book: A Nation and Not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913–23 by Diarmaid Ferriter
Bookmarked! #85: Portrait of the Artist as a Grumpy Old Man
Leo doesn’t seem too happy in this self-portrait. But then he was getting old and that’s not for the weak of heart.
Book: Leonardo: The Artist and the Man by Serge Bramly
Bookmarked! #84: The Rich Coast
Painted leather. I’m a little ashamed to admit that pulling this bookmark out of my collection I not only had no recollection of who gave it to me, but that I wasn’t even sure where Costa Rica was. Central or South America? I wasn’t sure. So of course I had to look it up.
Book: Encyclopedia Britannica (1973 edition)
Bookmarked! #83: The Pot of Basil
Neat promotional bookmark. Obviously I never planted the seeds, and nearly ten years after Panacea was published I don’t know how likely they would be to grow. Not that I use basil for much anyway.
Book: Megathreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them by Nouriel Roubini
Bookmarked! #82: Bookstores No More XIII: Co-Op Bookstores (Stone Road Mall Location)
I remember the Co-Op Bookstore in the Stone Road Mall. But I think it closed in the 1980s. Making this a very old bookmark indeed. Back in the days when Canadian bookmarks, even the ones that are just slips of paper with some printing on them, had to be “Made in [the] U.S.A.”
I’m not sure if the Stone Road location was associated with the University of Guelph’s Co-Op Bookstore, which is still in operation on campus. I don’t know why they would have had a storefront in the mall, but it’s possible.
Book: Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer
Bookmarked! #81: Stone Mask
Something from the gift shop at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa. So it must be more than ten years old, since the name was officially changed to the Canadian Museum of History in 2013. Which means this bookmark is itself now a bit of history. It currently resides in the Alex Good Museum of Bookmarks.
It must have been a gift to me because I’m sure I’ve never been to the place. Perhaps someday I’ll go. The picture is of a Tsimshian mask sculpture that apparently has a twin (only with eyeholes) in a museum in France.
Book: The Story of Civilization I: Our Oriental Heritage by Will Durant
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