15 Brilliant Bookmarks to Keep Your Pages Pristine

by Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot on March 11, 2010

In response to some very, very passionate book lovers (who thought when I said 9 Ways to Turn Old Musty Books Into Something Cool, I meant old and musty as in the Book of Kells, not old and musty like my mother’s collection of Harlequins she bequeathed to me) I have compiled this list of wack-tastic bookmarks, designed to preserve precious tomes.

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Burns: Poems, by Robert Burns

by Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot on February 26, 2010

Sounding Smart (without being smart)
Whyles the verse o’ Burnsie
Gang aft o’er my head
I doubt na why earth born companion,

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Gulliver’s Travels, by Johnathan Swift

February 17, 2010

Sounding Smart (without being smart)
The most important factor regarding the travels of Gulliver is to be able to fluently recite the names of all the lands to which he voyages – not just Lilliput. Bobdingnag, Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Houyhnhnms, and Japan. You will receive extra-special secret points if, in the same conversation, you mention how [...]

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Books and Body Pillows: Your Valentine’s Day Reading List

February 12, 2010

Dateless for V-Day?

Down in the dumps?

Don’t be. Because while all your friends and family are out cavorting out on the town or in between the sheets, they are not reading. Their fancy dinners will last a few hours and might give them food poisoning. Unlike the book you read. A book knows how to treat you right.

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Nine Stories, by J. D. Salinger

February 4, 2010

In 1953 J. D. Salinger published Nine Stories and this week he died. These two occasions represent triumph and tragedy, respectively, and this particular online book review is dedicated to the memory of a brilliant American author.

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