‘We’re all living in the aftermath of a cheese supper.’
Category: Books
Quote of the Week
‘After seeing one magpie, is there a time limit before you see the next one? If I see one at nine in the morning and the next one at five in the afternoon, is that two sorrows or one joy?’
Quote of the Week
‘When you insult or injure the unfortunate or the unhappy, you insult Christ Himself and He will not forget, for they are His Chosen ones.’
The Joy of Bookmarks
I’m not talking about the kind you buy to put in a book to mark your place, I’m mostly talking about incidental bookmarks, the ones you grab to mark your place and often, these can be found in second hand books. You can find many things in second hand books, not just the authors work. I have found receipts posing as bookmarks, usually from the bookshop the book was bought from, sometimes train and bus tickets, shopping lists and even little notes, memos etc.
Then there’s this. It was just a piece of paper within the pages of a second hand book, which I believe was being used as a bookmark. It’s one of my favourites.
I have also found family photos and holiday postcards saying ‘the food is okay, but can’t wait to get back for some fish and chips, it just rained four days straight, but the night life and tequilas are great. Wish you were here!’
I usually leave those things in books. It’s as if those makeshift bookmarks belong there, the same goes for photos, notes and postcards, as long as they’re not incriminating of course, or have I.D info on them. I will remove and destroy pieces of paper and ‘incidental bookmarks’ that have too much info on them, like someone’s address for example.
Some ‘bookmarks’ are meant to stay within the book. You found them in the book so you keep them in the book. Sometimes they belong there. It’s nice just to pass it along to the next owner of the book. It’s a piece of the past that
connects the previous owners and readers of the book to the next and to the moment in time it’s being read. Bookmarks and incidental bookmarks can add to that whole wonder of second hand books.
Quote of the Week
‘There where we find the deepest grief, there shall we begin the cure.’
‘The Knight’s Tale’ from The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
Quote of the Week
‘The moon makes dark shadows where the dreams hide. The light is like reason, when the shadows go so too will the dreams.’
Quote of the Week
‘Though the ostensible aim of the war was to protect the Turks in the Danube provinces from the invading Russians, the real object, frankly avowed in the Press, was to destroy Sebastopol and end Russian naval power in the Mediterranean.’
The Reason Why – Behind the Scenes at the Charge of The Light Brigade – Cecil Woodham Smith
Quote of the Week
‘Each step and each new day would be different from any that had ever been because we would be together.’
Oasis Nine – (short story from Young Man on a Bicycle and other stories) – Victor Canning
Quote of the Week
‘His heart and soul were at the end of his pen, and they got into the ink.’
Quote of the Week
‘No word of complaint ever passes his lips, however, for he is one of the aristocrats of the spirit – the poor artist who wishes for nothing but a chance to create.’
Things In My Head 