August 11, 2008
The aim of this website is simple: to share my love reading, recommend books to others, and provide gift ideas for the book lovers in your life. This site came about simply to share the wonder and joy that books bring into our lives.
Upon entering a bookstore, I let out a little content sigh…I am home.
The shops of my choice have books to the ceiling, ladders and a selection of antique leather bound volumes so beautiful that they can only be described as art. Finding these shops is not an easy task in and of itself, but I long for the days browsing them once found.
BUT, my heart truely skips a beat when across the shop I see a glimmer of gold gilded pages; the sheen, effort, and love that goes into producing such art humbles me, and I love to run my finger up the edge of the pages. Even mass produced books with gilded pages give me the same, albeit smaller rush of emotion.
I am an equal opportunity book lover as i do have many mass produced paperbacks, which I consider junk food for the brain. They are the perfect escape after a long day. Through books I can try on lives as I would shoes, and travel to far off lands. I can be wealthy, poor, migrant or native.
So thus this blog and website are borne, to document my obsession, wishes, and love of gilded pages.
My undying thanks to my mother, who read me more stories then I could count, and to my teachers, for the gift of reading.
January 14, 2010
There is a private collection in New Jersey that is up for destruction, they have no room to keep them so they are headed for the landfill.
I Cannot stand by and let priceless beautiful books be destroyed!
If any of my readers know of a place to store these books ( they are currently in New Jersey) or know of a library or organization that would could help, let me know!
How I heard about this:
One of the country's leading private collections of antiquarian books,
manuscripts and letters is going to be destroyed next week in Jersey
City, NJ. The collections is going to be thrown in garbage bins and
taken to the dump for destruction.
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> The collection is worth about 1 million dollars and includes major
collections of Jack Kerouac, Horatio Alger, Siegfried Sassoon, Charles
Reznikoff, George Borrow, Charles Darwin, G.A. Henty, Emma Goldman,
Larry Eigner and early American children's books published before 1821
(Welch titles).
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> So far, I have been unable to find a temporary storage location for
the collection. I am hoping to find someone to help solve this problem
over the next few days.
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May 17, 2009
my husband and I adore this show, I love it for the literary references, we BOTH love the show for the witty banter and excellent writing. We got our wish, season 2 is on it’s way!
Much thanks to the executives at ABC!
February 17, 2009
I apologize for any inconvience. I am looking into other options for interation between our site and it’s readers. Stay tuned!
