List by Danielle
'I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.'
~Rita Rudner
Happy Royal Wedding Day! Well, to be honest, I'm kind of ignoring the royal wedding, happy enough for it to pass me by, and my own wedding was a heartfelt but very very low-key meet-up at the Manukau registry office, but something about these old photographs of wedding parties from the 1800s and early 1900s really gets to me. I guess I'm trying to see within the wedding photo the story of the courtship and marriage; they fill me with questions mostly - what happened next? Did they have children? Were they in love, and did it last? How does their family remember them?
Friday, April 29, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Top 5 books I nabbed from Auckland Central Library's nonfiction display shelves for quirky titles and/or covers
List by Tosca
I adore libraries. I live to raid their shelves for items I have never seen before because, in a nutshell, I love books. Big books, little books, old books, new books, heavy books, light books, tatty books, pristine books - if it's got pages I'll read it. And smell it. And stroke it. And, if it moves me in some way, I'll probably dog ear its pages, too. Some people tell me that my love of books is incredibly naive and sweet and those people I happily ignore. Yesterday, between meetings, I had 15 mins to nip down to the second level of Auckland Central Library and look for ideas for a top 5 post. I'm fatally attracted to display shelves - my goldfish attention span is never more happy than when presented with row upon row of display books. The 'Supernatural' fanfic-reading girlish part of me SQUEEs with delight. The grown-up half of me wants to assure you that I walked around calmly while carefully choosing books. We all know that wasn't the case. A few students darted away from me whenever I lunged madly for books and I know I startled a couple of staff members when my sense of humour got the best of me and I snorted/laughed at a few titles and covers. I won't apologise for my enthusiasm. Books are serious business :) Here's a list of what I ended up with, in the order I think they deserve to be in, and I most certainly look forward to my next visit there! (Run, hide...)
Honourable mention:
Science without the boring bits : cranks, curiosities, crazy experiments and wild speculation by Ian Crofton
I adore libraries. I live to raid their shelves for items I have never seen before because, in a nutshell, I love books. Big books, little books, old books, new books, heavy books, light books, tatty books, pristine books - if it's got pages I'll read it. And smell it. And stroke it. And, if it moves me in some way, I'll probably dog ear its pages, too. Some people tell me that my love of books is incredibly naive and sweet and those people I happily ignore. Yesterday, between meetings, I had 15 mins to nip down to the second level of Auckland Central Library and look for ideas for a top 5 post. I'm fatally attracted to display shelves - my goldfish attention span is never more happy than when presented with row upon row of display books. The 'Supernatural' fanfic-reading girlish part of me SQUEEs with delight. The grown-up half of me wants to assure you that I walked around calmly while carefully choosing books. We all know that wasn't the case. A few students darted away from me whenever I lunged madly for books and I know I startled a couple of staff members when my sense of humour got the best of me and I snorted/laughed at a few titles and covers. I won't apologise for my enthusiasm. Books are serious business :) Here's a list of what I ended up with, in the order I think they deserve to be in, and I most certainly look forward to my next visit there! (Run, hide...)
Honourable mention:
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