Books
Book Exchanges
The other day I was thinking about how much I loved book exchanges growing up. You could buy books, comics and magazines there for almost nothing. You could also take all your magazines and books there and exchange them for… Read More ›
Book sculpture
I was on my way home from visiting friends last week when I spotted this in Liljeholmen, Stockholm. I have been this way many times but have never noticed this installation before. It is either new, or I have been… Read More ›
A Novel Journal: A novel idea
I rather like the idea of these notebooks from Thunder Bay Press. My only problem would be choosing the novel or the colour. I like the coloured edges and endpapers as well. The list of classic authors they offer in… Read More ›
Why have so many famous people died in 2016?
Apart from Brexit and the US elections, the refugee crisis, Putin flexing his muscles and other disasters this year, so many famous people seem to have died. Just yesterday Robert Vaughan and a few days prior to that it was… Read More ›
Gorgeous book charms
These are really cute. You can use them as jewellery, book charms, or keyrings. They are proper little books, with pages made of lovely paper, and stitched spines. Find them on AV Workshop on Etsy. Svetlana also makes wonderful handbound… Read More ›
The multi-talented David Bowie
David Bowie really was multi-talented. He was a trained dancer and mime, and could sing and act. He was a playwright, composer, record producer, and played alto and tenor saxophone, guitar, piano, keyboards, harmonica, mouth harp, koto, mandolin, recorder, viola,… Read More ›
Report back on Outlander – my progress
Some of my readers are Outlander fans and were wondering how I was progressing with my reading of the Outlander series. I wrote about it before, but to summarise, I had never read the Outlander series as I did not… Read More ›
Books similar to Fifty Shades of Grey
None of these authors will be relevant a hundred years from now, none of them are epic writers (though Sylvia Day is pretty good) and if you read the e-books (as I did with all except two of the Crossfire series),… Read More ›
