What unusual item have you discovered in a book ?
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Do You Like Art Books? Do You Have or Display "Coffee Table" Book
Comments (32)Outside, I enjoy those books too--- my late FIL went to school with Ferrol Sams and we love his novels. I hadn't realized he wrote essays as well. "When attending art shows, I swear off coffee table books but I am weak." We share that weakness, lol. Seems I am "always" never going to buy another huge book... Beagles, that room is fantastic, and I do see your pile of books peeking out from under that chair to the left :-) I'm with you on the kindle, but every now and then I like to hold a real book. Even though I find myself pushing the edge of the page instead of turning it (hanging head). No screen can reproduce the heft and color of those prints in large books, there is something about a good quality art print that is somehow more convincing than an image on a screen. Sloe gin, over the past decade or so I've seen many people putting lovely shelving in their dining rooms to combine functions or simply bring books into a room that doesn't often see them. I love that look, of a literary dining room! And your basket sounds eminently practical, we use our shagreen boxes and ceramic bowls for the same purpose--- the "stuff" has got to be corralled somehow. I have seen that Circus book, Robo, and the Atomic Ranch book also, they are both marvelous! It's clear that our collective enjoyment of these tomes is at least partly for the esthetic quality of the books themselves in addition to the content. I suppose that's what makes them "useful" decor :-) In some cases they might function purely as decor, as the leather books you've used, tinam. Have you seen the book purses that are so popular in some circles? Kate Spade has or had a few, and there's quite a cottage industry on Etsy making real old books into small handbags. They aren't a tenth big enough for me, but I love looking at them!...See MoreDid you ever discover yourself in the pages of a book?
Comments (12)Well, I can see you are "pups"! Rueing your lost youth when you are forty?! Wait until your sixties! Then fears and worries are replaced by a sort of dreary grim reality. I admire those women ahead of me who are teaching me by their example how to age sucessfully and live their life fully to the last gasp. I chuckled yesterday in reading the obits ....one beautiful woman was remembered as "leaving this life full of the grace and dignity with which she had lived". Beautiful. Yet I couldn't imagine anyone saying that of me....more probably: She left this life kicking and screaming , trying to wring out the last drop from it! It is especially disturbing to feel that perhaps there are few dreams left to realize.....and worse, that those which have been realized have crumbed to dust through the use and abuse of days. There's an answer out there somewhere.....and I'm not going until I fully understand it!! LOL....See MoreWhere is the most unusual place you have read a book?
Comments (14)In 1969, in a tiny bathroom that lacked a sink, located in the hall outside our tiny apartment. I was recently married and a teacher when I learned of a book that was written as a hoax, each chapter by a different writer. "Naked Came the Stranger" was written in the attempt to prove that any book could sell, no matter how badly written, if it included enough trite sex. I took the book to the bathroom to read the first chapter while I was otherwise occupied, and after that chapter I never deemed the book worthy of escaping the bathroom. Here is the Wiki description of the book and its authors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Came_the_Stranger I'm amused that the title came to me as soon as I read this thread's question. The book did sell well even before the hoax was revealed....See MoreHave you discovered any new blogs, instagram decorators, etc...
Comments (44)I know Sue! Oh well. At least I left the wrong man behind with it. No point in living in a great house when you are depressed and do not like the person with whom you are living. Suddenly nothing looks very pretty. BTW, Those colors are distorted... at least in the living room....See More- 4 years ago
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