Take Note

Anyone who reads this blog has long since caught on I love books. It's not just the books I read though. I also love journals and sketchbooks. I was using my own form of this long before these made it on the scene but I did start using them all the same. The moleskine.

Well known moleskine users (despite the company's founding in 1996) are said to be Henri Matisse, Vincent Van Gogh, Ernest Hemingway, Andre Breton, Pablo Picasso, and Bruce Chatwin.

Moleskins have made cameo appearances in . . .
The Devil Wears Prada











The DaVinci Code
Stranger Than Fiction
National Treasure
Bones of Contention
I Heart Huckabees
Shall We Dance
Maria Jose' the Last Queen
State and Main
Amelie

K-Pax
The Son's Room
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Magnolia
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade





The trend has caught on with many celebs as well.
Victoria Beckham and Heidi Klum


Ashton Kutcher

Brad Pitt

Chris Gray of Radiohead

Jennifer Morrison of House MD



On that note here are some excerpts from some authors we have come to know and love from their own personal journals.

William Wordsworth - copy of November 1806

Virginia Woolf - a draft from Mrs. Dalloway

Oscar Wilde - an early draft from The Importance of Being Ernest

Lewis Carroll - a page from Alice in Wonderland with original illustration


Source

A Novel Idea

Urban Outfitters has a great new hyperlink sort of ad on their site:

Celebrity Readings

COURTNEY LOVE

Her book club: Blonde Ambition
What she's reading: Trading Up by Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell
Category: Beach read
A selected passage: "He might not have been the man that Janey had always imagined she would marry, but the man you did marry never was."

SARAH JESSICA PARKER

Her book club: Literature and the City
What she's reading: The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Category: Literary fiction
A selected passage: "I try to make a point of being seen. Sometimes when I'm out, I'll buy a juice even though I'm not thirsty."

Source

Mischa Barton - The Kite Runner

Madonna - The Night Listener

Lindsay Lohan - God's Promises for Your Every Need

Paris Hilton - The Power of Now

Angelina Jolie - Crimes of War

And on that note here is a sort of whose who of who reads what.

Kindle Cake

I've been trying hard to decide if I want a kindle or not. But in the meantime there is one sort of kindle I can have and eat it too. The kindle cake.

It looks just as delicious as the real thing.

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Fellow Book-Wormin' Bibliophile Blogger

The same day I was working on my post on bookworm fashion I came across the blog of a fellow fashion Bessie at tech same time making a mental note to make a post about her at a later time. The time is now. Meet the clothes horse.































Oddly enough this post mentions her recent Hitchcock fest when I myself recently spent days watching all three seasons of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and insuring I have indeed seen all of his movies.

The Private Collection

Ah Marilyn. A woman so many women would have loved to have been and that men would have loved to have been with. The Christie's auction of the century was held quite a while ago so while on earth would I bring it up now and what on earth does she have to do with a book blog?

At the time of her death some said she owned over 200 books, some said over 400, others say over 500. So what books could be found in this esoteric book-worms shelves?
I contacted Christies and Sotheby's to find out just that. But since it was a personal inquiry they were unable to provide me with the list of the titles auctioned off. Next I tried contacting a long list of those in possession of the auction catalog.

In the end I was able to hunt down the majority of titles that could be found in her library. Since it is too long for me to post here. And I would like to read titles that I have not read that were in it. I created an amazon wish list containing confirmed titles from her collection.
If you too are interested my list can be found here.

Book Furniture made of Books

Secret Agent Bookshelf
appropriately pull on Sherlock Holmes to open the door

To learn the specifics of this all too awesome at home project visit Per Vivere [To Live]

Okay so that one wasn't made of books but it was too awesome not to mention

Bookshelf of books

Jim Rosen's bookcase and bookshelf of books can be purchased from his website or made to order.

Desk made of books

from Milan Design Week