In which you care
It seems you care as deeply as I do about the chest-hair issue--it even caused delurking! There were tweets and facebook comments as well, so I'm glad we're all uniting for the cause. I'm looking into a telethon as we speak. Oooh, and a celebrity endorsement! I'm thinking Hugh Jackman...
It occurred to me last night--oh, and if you're looking for a transition to this paragraph, it's not going to happen; this is totally random--that I coordinate my bookmarks to what I'm reading. I was browsing through three different books and didn't want to lose my places, so I went to find bookmarks, only they couldn't be just ANY bookmarks. They needed to complement the tone of the text. (For example, if I were reading Pillars of Earth, I would use the postcard I bought at York Minster Cathedral with the detail of a wood carving from the altar.) I have loads of bookmarks--most are postcards, some are pieces trimmed from cards I've received from people. And it suddenly occurred to me that coordinating bookmarks to your books is WEIRD. Please tell me someone else out there actually does this.
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Bookmarks
What a wonderful idea! I absolutely love bookmarks and am always buying - and then losing - them, and end up using napkins and little bits of paper, or - horrors - bending the page to mark my place.
I have used postcards and greeting cards as bookmarks too. My car book suffers the most, I think ... it usually ends up with the napkin as I read it in restaurants most of the time.
I don't necessarily feel compelled to match the bookmark to the book, but am now inspired to at least use the bookmarks I have!
not really...
but now I have an idea for what to do with all those postcards I can't seem to part with.
Books
Yes! Yes! Yes! Since the Narnia tales were made into movies, because my mother read us the Narnia tales when we were young--as many of them were being published, I hate to say-- and I've always loved the magic of the tales, I bought the fancy "store bought" Narnia bookmarks and later, when I fell in love with Captain Jack, I bought the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN bookmarks--I also have bookmarks that my uncle had made up for the Morse Museum--not sure of it's full name, but it is a local museum that houses a lot of Tiffany glass--long story--and my uncle donated a lot of Rookwood Pottery to it, many of the pottery having American Indian portrait heads on them --and the bookmarks they used for the exhibit of them has a lovely brown glazed pot with a wonderful visage of an American Indian--i believe they really sat for them.
But I don't always intentionally match the bookmark to the book--sometime if it is one I don't really know much about I kind of try to divine the right bookmark--sometimes with luck.
I think I use Captain Jack for Julia and Brisbane--they need his help--(I always choose one that will help with the outcome of the book)--and I always use Lucy looking at the lamppost in Narnia for the Ian Rutledge books by Charles Todd--the hero was "shell-shocked" in WW I in those series and I always think Lucy would be a gentle touch for him. Right now I'm reading LAY THAT TRUMPET IN OUR HANDS which is a slightly fictionalized account of the Klan murders in 1951 down here in Central Florida of an early NAACP activist and his wife, and I am using the Rookwood American Indian bookmark, as they too are minorities that have suffered at the growth of this nation--If i think the villain in a mystery is super evil, I, of course, use Aslan from the Narnia tales. But all these other comments have given me other ideas of bookmarks to use--and have many postcards to use for them. Glad there are others that do this too.
Bookmarks
Absolutely I try to match bookmarks to my books! If I have a bookmark from an author, I use that (I read The Dead Travel Fast using my Dead Travel Fast bookmark! I have a bookmark from Courtney Milan for her new book that I will use when that book comes out later this year!) My sister and I have made our own bookmarks as well, with different-colored ribbons and various charms and crystal beads hanging at the ends. When I don't have an appropriate bookmark based on other factors, then I at least match the color of the bookmark to the cover of the book. (Now that I've mentioned that, I hope that doesn't make me the oddest one around!)
Bookmarks
We were able to get bookmarks from you for TDTF, will we be getting that opportunity for the next Julia?
Bookmarks
I also like to make bookmarks from favorite cards I've received, and especially when a loved one's handwriting is on one side. However, for Deanna Raybourn books I have a very special bookmark - a gracious handwritten note from the author!
It never occurred to me to
It never occurred to me to use anything but an old crumpled receipt to hold my page. I've always assumed that was standard. Hmmm... I'll have to look into this "bookmark" craze.
I'm sorry, Deanna, but I
I'm sorry, Deanna, but I could concentrate on nothing, after you mentioned Hugh Jackman. I think I need to watch Someone Like You for the billionth time...
Might be weird
Oooh goodie, it might be weird, but I like to do it too! Not always, and not always to the same extent, but I have been known to make bookmarks for certain books, especially if there are a few in a series or such ^^
coordinating bookmarks
That makes complete sense to me. Now I feel the need to go out and purchase a lot of different bookmarks or postcards!