Notebook Pride

The computer may nearly be fixed. There are still some things to work on but I wanted to check back in on you dear readers.

In an earlier post I mentioned Penguins deck chairs. It would seem they are offering their own moleskin-esque notebooks with favourite titles on them.



Aside from you and I here is who else has just got to have it: Source

Recently Finished:
The Magicians Nephew
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis

Poems
Sylvia Plath

Eclipse
Stephenie Meyers

What Would Audrey Do?
Pamela Clarke Keogh

Don't Be That Girl
Travis Stork

Unfortunate English
William Brohaugh

The Gilded Tongue
Rod Evans

Lost in Austen
Emma Campell Webster

Eat This, Not That
David Zinczenko

Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendack

Moleskins and Men

Men - they're out there and the good ones are literate. However, I have no idea how many read my blog. But since this is a distinct possibility I wanted to post this top 100 list of reads for men that I found while I was reading Hitting on Girls in Bookstores.

The other week I posted about the moleskin. Well so did the blogger running the above mentioned blog. I thought it was hysterical (although his venom at the end about pens makes me sad.)

Whack-a-Moleskine.

A Moleskine is a tiny black book that writers have been using for centuries, apparently. Before I even get to my next sentence I'm going to go ahead and tell you that I do own one. But there's a difference between owning one and writing in it and owning one and using it in public (for instance, I'm not an attention whore).


The Moleskine, to me, says "I think I'm a fucking genius who doesn't have to use a laptop or a dollar notebook from Walmart."* It says "I am so 19th century and have decided to rebel against those pricks at Starbucks who use machines that require an outlet. My Moleskine has a ribbon place holder and you can't plug that shit into an outlet, that's how hardcore I am."


The person who uses a Moleskine in public wants to be approached! That way they can tell you what they're putting in it! Because it's so damned important for others to know that "I'm a serious writer. Look how serious I am! I'm using an expensive notebook! And it has a pocket!"


Using a Moleskine makes it appear that you put too much thought into what tools you're using to write, as opposed to just writing. And if that person goes into a spiel about how Neil Gaiman uses one, well, then, you're not Neil Gaiman and he can do whatever the hell he wants because he's Neil Gaiman.


If you want someone to read what you write: don't use a Moleskine; get a blog and rant about how Moleskine users piss you off.


*And the pens these people use, oh, the pen can sometimes cost more than the notebook.
Note: Mine was a gift and has never left my house.

While you're there I recommend reading his post titled Pride & Arrogance (and the asshole way)

Sartorial Appreciation

Even the Sartorialist has included some bookish type looks.

The caption for this one reads how this look would not be complete or the same without the moleskin


Below are some of the looks that came up when I searched "Librarian"

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


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