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
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
Many bookmarks come with tassels. They just seem to go together.
(Note: I’m ashamed to admit I already featured these two bookmarks in an earlier post. This happens. It’s hard to keep track sometimes of what I’ve already taken pictures of.)
Book: The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall by Eliot A. Cohen
