Enjoy these Irish writer-themed goodies in preparation for St. Patrick’s Day!
Samuel Beckett Tea Towel by Miss Fruitfly. $10.00
William Butler Yeats Canvas Tote Bag by Nice Day Designs. $6.71
…and died on this day, 2 March, 1930.
D.H. Lawrence, 1906.
QUOTE: “I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth’s follies-thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.”
SOME WORKS: Sons and Lovers; The Rainbow; Women in Love; Aaron’s Rod; The Plumed Serpent; Lady Chatterley’s Lover; The Rocking-Horse Winner.
A KEEPSAKE:
Essay on D.H. Lawrence by Kenneth Young at Dunedin Street. $6.78
“My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that’s what the world is like.”-Edward Gorey
The Gashlycrumb Tinies Metal Lunch Box at The Vint Edge. $34.99
Edward Gorey Necklace by Dark White Arts. $14.00
Dog Card with James Thurber Quote by i heart dogs studio. $4.25
Happy Burns Day! Good old Rabbie Burns, Scotland’s darling, was born on 25 January 1759. As I am certain you know by now, The Chef and I are throwing our annual Burns Supper tonight. Yay, the revelry is almost upon us! I have last-minute party preparations to handle but you, lucky ones, can sit back with a cuppa whilst reading this special edition of Shopping for the Bookworm. Enjoy! Continue reading
I received many bookish gifts for Christmas (more on those later). In fact, most of the gifts with my name on them turned out to be delightfully literary-based. I’m easy to buy for like that. One of the only non-literary themed gifts was from The Chef, who gave me a fancy, shiny, amazing new phone: a Samsung Galaxy S III. It’s heavenly, and I am in love (with both it and my husband). Really, it is perfection. Except, of course, for one small detail. It isn’t bookish enough. My solution? This, dear readers. This.
If it looks familiar, it’s because I wrote about something similar here. I’m over-the-moon with nerdy glee! A plain case would work just as well, but if you can put a bookish spin on something utilitarian…why not?
“For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say “I’m going to sleep.” And half an hour later the thought that it was time to go to sleep would awaken me; I would try to put away the book which, I imagined, was still in my hands, and to blow out the light; I had been thinking all the time, while I was asleep, of what I had just been reading, but my thoughts had run into a channel of their own, until I myself seemed actually to have become the subject of my book: a church, a quartet, the rivalry between Francois I and Charles V.”-Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust at lemonbooks-$14.00
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”-Marcel Proust
Proust Quote Scrabble Tile Pendant by Gratitude Jewelry-$9.95
“…presently my aunt would dip a little madeleine in the boiling infusion, whose taste of dead leaves or faded blossom she so relished, and hand me a piece when it was sufficiently soft.”-Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way Continue reading
Grab your favourite beverage, sit back, and enjoy looking at these Robert Louis Stevenson themed goods!
Robert Louis Stevenson Quote-Letterpress Art Print by tag team tompkins-$8.00
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson at 4Get-Me-Not Treasures-$18.00 Continue reading
I’m extra excited for this edition because, as you well know by now, I love Penguin Books. They are so pleasing to the eye: crisp, clean, straightforward, modern, and adorned with that adorable penguin. Besides the lovely package, you know that you’re in for a fine read. Here are a few of my favourites from Etsy shops. Continue reading
“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”-Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde Quote Art Print by Kathy O’Connell-$15.00
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