Category: bookish things

Teaser Tuesday

Nobody knows how many whales were killed during the great age of whaling, but one estimate suggests that about 300,000 were slaughtered in the four decades or so to 1870. That may not seem an especially vast number, but then whale numbers were not vast to begin with. In any case, the hunting was enough… Continue reading Teaser Tuesday

Etsy Finds: Bookplates

I absolutely love bookplates, and looking for them on Etsy is one of my favorite routine “Etsy-checks.” Today, since it seems like a lovely lazy Sunday afternoon activity, I thought I’d share a few favorites I’ve found lately. I will advise you to proceed with caution though… while compiling this post I bought three different… Continue reading Etsy Finds: Bookplates

Book Giveaway Winner!

I’m pleased to announce that the winner of the Packing for Mars giveaway is Maria! Congrats! I hope everyone who reads this book enjoys it as much as I did.

Teaser Tuesday

What kind of woman has a saffron quilt on her bed? Wears a white linen dressing gown? Keeps beside her bed a stack of gardening books? Stores all her clothes in a shabby antique wardrobe, with a mirror built into its door? Who is she when she is in this room, alone and unobserved, and… Continue reading Teaser Tuesday

Library Loot 7.18.10

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva and Marg that encourages readers to share the goodies that they picked up at their libraries each week! I got many treats at the library yesterday – mainly due to their recently expanded Graphic Novels section, which made me incredibly happy to discover. From top to bottom: Circle… Continue reading Library Loot 7.18.10

Teaser Tuesday

To figure out how best to prevent motion sickness, you first need to figure out how best to bring it on. Aerospace research has excelled at the latter, if not the former, and perhaps nowhere more triumphantly than at the U.S. Naval Aerospace Medical Institute in Pensacola, Florida: the birthplace of the human disorientation device.… Continue reading Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday

In 1943, when Ireland was officially in Emergency mode, an American B-17 Flying Fortress en route from Marrakesh to England got lost and went off course. Almost out of fuel, the crew of the T’ain’t-a-Bird made a forced, unscheduled landing in White’s Marsh, outside Clonakilty. Looking out, the crew of ten thought they were in… Continue reading Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday

All immediate hints of purpose went out of the rooms themselves. Showers in kitchens, toilets in living rooms, sinks in bedrooms. It was as if Picasso were born a slumlord instead of a painter. Nothing was where you thought it would be, which would be eccentric in a mansion but was disarming in an apartment.… Continue reading Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday

When she was not looking for her name, she was writing it, and not just Charlotte either as she would have put on her books at home, or even at the little village school where she went before. Charlotte alone proved no identity at all. Charlotte Mary Makepeace she wrote in full and in her… Continue reading Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday

I’m reading a non-fiction book right that’s good, but a little uninspiring for a Teaser Tuesday post. So instead I’m going to post a teaser from a poem in the poetry book I’m currently reading now – Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins. This is the best – throwing off the light covers, feet on the… Continue reading Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday

By now, death had long since lost its power to shock. Everyone had a story: there were thousands piled up in London’s heart. But ever since the first of the year, Hitler had been playing with London’s nerves. There were three nights of bombing in January, then nothing for a week. Then again, and heavier.… Continue reading Teaser Tuesday