Homecoming by Bernard Schlink because I liked The Reader.
Homecoming by Bernard Schlink because I liked The Reader.
Recently, I was cleaning up room, trying to make some sense and order out of the discheveled mess and found an entire box of books, I bought not long ago from Dover Publications when they had a big sale. I was rather delighted, since I found these:
The Ambassadors ~ Henry James
The Golden Age ~ Kenneth Grahame, Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish
Monday or Tuesday ~ Eight Stories ~ Virginia Woolf
The Voyage Out ~ Virginia Woolf
Crime and Punishment ~ Dostoyevski
Celtic Designs ~ Mallory Pearce
Dulac's Fairy Tale Illustrations
Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
Assorted Dover Paper Dolls for my grand-daughter, when she is old enough to play with them....haha...do kids still like paper-dolls?.....haha...they are probably more for me....
Gibson Girl Paper dolls ~ Tom Tierney (probaby use for clipart or design work)
Rather a strange mix, isn't it?
"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
It's a strange but wonderful mix, Janine. Enjoy!
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
The Temptation of St Anthony - Flaubert
The Travels of Marco Polo
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
The Complete Tragedies of Aeschylus
I've been buying too many books recently. Ah well, I'll get around to reading them some day I suppose.
"And the worms, they will climb
The rugged ladder of your spine"
F. Scott Fitzgerald - the Great Gatsby
I've been meaning to read it for a while. The fact that it was named to have some sort of car theme going on pushed me over the edge
It is not too late, to be wild for roundabouts - to be wild for life
Wolfsheim - It is not too late
I LOVED paper dolls when I was a kid, Janine!Originally Posted by Janine
Haven't bought any books recently...stupid lack of funds!
I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
Waiting for a winter to be done.
Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
In all that I could never overcome?
I actually own a large variety of Tom Tierney paper dolls. I have regretted cutting some of them out now, but what else was I supposed to do with them when I was a kid?
*Classic*, You sound like my sister, Michele. She was the 'queen of paper dolls' in our house. Everytime she got a little money she would buy a set. I loved them too and I think we still have some of our old vintage ones in the basement somewhere. I hope they are savagable, but it's doubtful. I get all nostalgic, when I see these paper doll books on Dover. I have this friend who lives in Michigan and she makes gorgeous quilts and designs patterns herself. She made the neatest quilt using the paper doll designs from Dover - the Pride and Prejudice ones, or it may have been a general Jane Austen collection. Her quilt is just amazing to see - all apliqued.
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LadyWentworth, Wow, you have a lot of Tom Tierney paper dolls?Cool! I am sort of thinking the same thing now, that I bought these for Brooke. Do we really want to cut them out and ruin the books?I actually own a large variety of Tom Tierney paper dolls. I have regretted cutting some of them out now, but what else was I supposed to do with them when I was a kid? But still, I am mad that I did that to the others because the uncut ones look nice in the books like that. I also own a few of his coloring books. But I have said before on here that I am a big fan of coloring books. I love to color in them. I love the different fashions of his. I should look at the Dover site and see if there are any new ones.
Probably, I will give her certain ones such as the "Little Ballerina";
I bought "Shakespeare" ones which I will probably keep for my own delight.
I also bought "Gibson Girl" and "Shirley Temple"...not sure now they would mean anything to her either. Maybe, what I can do is color photo copy them and we can cut those out; what do you think of that idea? Then you always keep the book intact. I signed up for Dover samples and they send them to me often. I have files of the coloring pages. Same deal - I hope to print them out so I can eventually color with my grand-daughter. What fun that will be and I love the smell of the Crayola crayons, don't you? How that takes one back in time.
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
[QUOTE=*Classic*Charm*;698326]I LOVED paper dolls when I was a kid, Janine!
So did I. I even made my own sometimes. We would play with them for hours
"What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare." W.H. Davies
My cousin and I had hundreds of paper dolls and we played with them all the time.
[QUOTE=Lynne50;698679]Yes, I used to trace the outlines of the dresses and make additional pieces for them haha.
That quilt sounds incredible!! Shakespeare Jane Austen paper dolls? Jealous! I'd keep those for myself as well haha. I don't remember which ones I had. I know there was a Little House on the Prairie set. I think I still have them all in a shoebox somewhere.
I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
Waiting for a winter to be done.
Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
In all that I could never overcome?
I haven't purchased any books for a while, I have quite a bit which are yet to be read and I don't really have a lot of spare time on my hands lately to read, but I'm considering buying The Manticore by Robertson Davies. Fifth Business was such a great novel and I loved the subject matter. I don't expect it to be as 'magical' as Fifth Business was, but I think it will be a good read at any rate.
The Complete Sonnets and Poems of William Shakespeare
Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams (American Poets Project)
"And the worms, they will climb
The rugged ladder of your spine"
You had a "Little House on the Prairie" paperdoll set? Oh my gosh, LadyWentworth will freak out. She'll want to buy them from you.
I wish I could post the photo of the quilt for you all to see. I will ask my friend. She loves exposure and it was simply beautiful. She also made the cutest Barbie one. It had outfits and all. *Classic*, you can still buy the Shakespeare and the Jane Austen paper dolls from Dover Publishing (online). I will look them up for you. They have all kinds of cool paper dolls. Gee, we should have a paperdoll party!
Lynne, that is so cool that you and your sister made your own. I guess we did as *Classic* said. We make some additional clothes for our existing dolls.
Wow, hundreds, Lady Scarlett? That is way more than we had - sounds like great fun. Now I have the desire to go hunt for my old vintage ones - they are in a crawl space in our basement. I fear the dampness and mold may have gotten to them by now, but the floor is cement, so maybe they survived and I can air them out. They would be from the 50's. They might be worth a few bucks, but I would not want to sell them.
Last edited by Janine; 04-05-2009 at 04:32 PM.
Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
My cousin and I kept our paper dolls in huge boxes shoved under our beds.
Last book I bought was The Awakening - for here.
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