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[A Holiday Shopping Spree for the Bookworm] Fourth Stop: The Reader’s Catalog

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THE READER’S CATALOG

This beautiful site is a one-stop shop for the understated reader in your life. Be warned: if you, too, are of a quietly bookish mind, you’ll want at least a dozen things for yourself. The Reader’s Catalog is full of useful goods with a literary bent, which automatically makes any purchase guilt free! That’s how it works, right?

A FEW HIGHLIGHTS:

Bodleian Winter Titles Wrapping Paper

Bodleian Winter Titles Wrapping Paper. $6.95. Image from The Reader’s Catalog.

Writer's Pencils

Writer’s Pencils. $18.95. Image from The Reader’s Catalog.

I Am Born Infant Tee

“I Am Born” Infant Tee (David Copperfield). $19.95. Image from The Reader’s Catalog.

DETAILS:

FIRST STOP: EDWARD GOREY HOUSE STORE

SECOND STOP: JANE AUSTEN GIFT SHOP

THIRD STOP: OUT OF PRINT CLOTHING

The Adventurous Robert Louis Stevenson Died 119 Years Ago Today

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Robert Louis Stevenson died on 3 December 1894. He was forty-four years old. Here he is, looking elegant in a John Singer Sargent portrait…

Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson by John Singer Sargent, 1887

Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson by John Singer Sargent, 1887

He was as dashing as the best of them…

Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879

Robert Louis Stevenson, 1879

His spirited wife, Fanny, also excelled at living life to the fullest …

Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne Stevenson

Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne Stevenson

“So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”-Robert Louis Stevenson

Happy Birthday, George Eliot!

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George Eliot was born on 22 November 1819.

George Eliot

George Eliot

George Eliot was rebellious in ways that actually meant something. She had guts, too, and a wide talent. 

“The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.”-George Eliot

Novels: Adam Bede; The Mill on the Floss; Silas Marner; Romola; Felix Holt, the Radical; Middlemarch; Daniel Deronda

A Reading List a Mile Long: Bas Bleu Holiday 2013 Edition

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Here’s an Excerpt from My Seasonally-Appropriate Short Story…

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Here’s an excerpt from my seasonally-appropriate short story, Beyond the Boneyard Gate. It is featured in the October issue of The Paperbook Collective.

“I open them on the inhale. Smoke laps against my prickly face. A bright orange dot glows from the statue like a pulsating beacon, growing and then receding with each pull of breath. His  breath. Moonlight glances off of a face whose features are re-forming before me, as stone becomes flesh and sinew. I pant, voiceless, and do not scream again.”

[Book Nerd Art] Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

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The dust jacket cover of the 1922 edition of Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini. Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston.

Dust Jacket Cover of Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

Dust Jacket Cover of Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini.

“It is not human to be wise,” said Blood. “It is much more human to err, though perhaps exceptional to err on the side of mercy.”-Captain Blood, Rafael Sabatini

 

[My Writing Life] I Have a Short Story in The Paperbook Collective’s October Issue

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The newest issue ofThe Paperbook Collective came out yesterday. It is a wonderful on-line magazine/hard copy ‘zine out of Australia. My short story Beyond the Boneyard Gate is featured on pages forty-one and forty-two. I hope you can take a few minutes to check it, and the rest of the contents, out. It’s well worth your time, I promise!

FUN FACT: I was moved to write this story after seeing, and being thoroughly disturbed by, one of my blogging friend Jennifer’s photos. Her blog of fabulous photography is here.

A Reading List a Mile Long: Bas Bleu Autumn 2013

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“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”-Oscar Wilde

  1. The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer-$22.36
  2. Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household by Kate Hubbard-$29.99
  3. This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart-$14.95
  4. The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World’s Great Drinks by Amy Stewart-$15.96
  5. Wretched Writing: A Compendium of Crimes Against the English Language by Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras-$15.00
  6. Dickens at Christmas by Charles Dickens-$22.36
  7. The Unrest-Cure and Other Stories by Saki and Illustrated by Edward Gorey-$14.95
  8. The Baroness of Hobcaw by Mary E. Miller-$18.95
  9. [BONUS LITERARY MUG] The Greatest First Lines of Literature Ever Mug-$12.95