The Book: Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama, and Other Page-Turning Adventures from a Year in a Bookstore, by Suzanne Strempek Shea
The Story: While going through some pretty bad cancer treatments Suzanne was asked by a friend to work at a small, indie bookstore. The initial idea was just to work a few hours a week, [...]
Um, so I love this.
Clever, right?
It’s made by this company in Japan, Shikisai, and there is plenty more where that came from.
All the prices are in Yen, so good luck there… but seriously, check out this post with all of their designs. Brilliant and hilarious.
April 27, 2011 – 12:05 pm
James Madison (The American Presidents Series), by Garry Wills
I know that this sounds kind of lame, but when I chose a biography to read about James Madison, I chose by length. There were only a few that were even out there. There were two that had pretty good reviews: this one (at about 200 pages) [...]
April 26, 2011 – 11:26 am
I love, love, love checking out other people’s home libraries, but sometimes it kind of makes me roll my eyes. These people live in straight up mansions, of course they have libraries! Today I was kind of looking for inspiration pictures from people who live in small houses or like us are still (gasp) apartment [...]
The Book: Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld
The Story: YAYADN (Yet Another Young Adult Dystopian Novel)
The little “twist” here is that after you turn 16, each person is made “Pretty” through some crazy surgery. Until then, you live as an Ugly. Tally is just a handful of days away from turning sixteen and going in for her [...]
Um, is this not amazing? Seller graphicspaceswood hit the ball out of the park with this one.
How awesome would this look in a kid’s room? I’m in love.
Do you think Shaun would notice if I spent $2,100 on a bookshelf this weekend?
I would settle for just some of the too-cute bookends
April 22, 2011 – 12:16 pm
Happy Friday! We are in our hometown today through Sunday celebrating Easter with our families. Right now we are at my in-laws’ house and they cannot get enough of Isaac… he is pretty cute, I guess. We’re going to take him to meet the Easter Bunny tomorrow, so that’s pretty exciting. Mostly it’s just nice [...]
I have to admit, I’m not really a jewelry person. I wear my wedding ring and sometimes a simple necklace. If I’m feeling crazy or dressing up I wear a clunky ring or bracelet. That’s it.
Maybe part of the reason is because I really don’t have any great jewelry.
What I’m saying is this: I need [...]
The Book: Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates
The Story: April and Frank Wheeler are this kind of bright, beautiful, perfect couple. They have two great kids and live in the ‘burbs, you know, planting stuff in the garden, going to dinner parties, participating in community theatre… stuff like that.
Below their glossy surface they are both pretty [...]
My friend Jessica alerted me to this and I just had to show you guys
Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has a pretty sweet library. He also owns a bookstore. So. You know. He’s one of us.
He’s decided to make a perfume that smells like books. Seriously.
It’s going to be in a hardcover book and [...]