Anton Chekhov was born on 29 January 1860. In addition to being quite the looker…
Anton Chekhov, 1889
…he ranks as one of my favourite writers.
QUOTE: “There is nothing new in art except talent.”
SOME WORKS: The Bear; The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard; The Death of a Government Clerk; The Huntsman; At the Mill; Easter Eve; Grisha; The Bet; The Darling; The Bishop.
A KEEPSAKE:
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
My favourite New Year’s Day tradition doesn’t involve parades or football games or overindulging in sweets. For this girl, it is all about books. Shocking, no?
A pile ‘o books and calendars.
This pile ‘o goodies is the result of my annual New Year’s Day Book and Calendar Hunt. As you can see, the 2013 edition was quite successful. I decided to by-pass literature in favour of selections from the genres of art, biography, and silent film. Here are a few of the highlights:
Egon Schiele by Sandra Forty
REASON: Egon Schiele is my favourite artist (in a three-way tie with Modigliani and Pissarro).
Frontier Madam The Life of Dell Burke, Lady of Lusk by June Willson Read
REASON: Who could pass up a book with a title like this? Continue reading
Give me some Penguin Books swag, sit back, and watch the magic unfold.
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A Room of One’s Own Mug and Assorted Penguin Pencils [Completely Unsharpened]
Penguin by Design A Cover Story 1935-2005 by Phil Baines
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
Let’s get straight to the good stuff, no filler or fluff.
“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”-Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde Quote Art Print by Kathy O’Connell-$15.00
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 