Or a Magnesium Pearlcoat lining, to be more exact.
I mentioned to some of you in a weekly email (and possibly here on the blog) that this new WordPress theme seemed ironically attractive to me considering the image of a rusted car on a site entitled ‘Stainless Steel’ Droppings. What I may not have mentioned was that our recently paid off automobile decided to leave our indentured servitude to go to that great junkyard in the sky…or at least somewhere in the Kansas City area.
Here is a post for all the well-behaved book lovers out there. You know who you are. Those who need more books to fill up your shelves. Those who demonstrate remarkable self-control and never buy more books than they can read in one sitting. 😉
If that description does not resemble you, dear reader, you may want to skip this post altogether. For what would a Book Week be like without the temptation to buy more books? It wouldn’t really be Book Week now, would it?
We all appreciate the works of the large publishing houses. They have brought us untold number of magical tales over the years in which we have found delight. But they are not the only ones producing enchanting fiction. Small press publishers, and some imprints of larger houses, are taking risks to produce real treasures for book lovers.
Whether they are publishing wholly original fiction or they are producing collectible editions of great stories, these publishing houses are ones you need to be familiar with.
“When you sell a man a book, you don’t sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life.”
~Christopher Morley
Here are a few places to get a life:
(image copyright Su Blackwell)
(For an explanation of the Book Week premise, see yesterday’s post)
WARNING: This post may not be for the faint of heart!
If you are anything like me, and I know that many of you are (May God have mercy on your souls), the merest willful damage to a book is tantamount to abuse. I have never quite gotten over my childhood habit of anthropomorphizing objects. While my talk of trees and books and the various Objet d’art that inhabit my world and the relationship I have with them is more poetic license than waking delusion, there is still a very small part of that young lad who assumes that books, like people, have feelings too. Thus today’s Book Week post features art that is something of an enigma for me: I admire the work and am inspired by the creativity and at the same time I feel pangs of guilt over my attachment to each piece.
Today rather than spending a tremendous amount of time discussing each image, I am going to briefly showcase the artist and then allow you to enjoy their work.
Though it may be incongruous with the images, to keep the mood light (after all, I don’t want my Book Week posts making anyone cry) I will include various inspiring/funny quotes about books or reading between photos.
Prepare yourselves.
And we’re off.
This week at Stainless Steel Droppings is Book Week! How is this any different than most weeks you might ask? Well don’t!!!
All kidding aside, this week’s posts will focus on different art, artisans, etc. that have something to do with that form of entertainment that so many of us love: the book!
The week will conclude with a book-related prize pack drawn from the names of those participating in each of this week’s posts. More details as the week progresses.
And now on to day one’s book-related post:
Stairway to Heaven
(Gemini wallpaper by Citronrouge.com. Click image for wallpaper size and check out her other great stuff on her site)
This past Saturday I had the all-too-rare privilege of being able to just sit in front of my computer and search the internet to my heart’s content. My journey began by spending some time on Friday Favorite artist Anne-Julie Aubry‘s wonderful site. I used her links page to launch out on pathways that took me all over the place, some of which I feel the need to share with you. But first:
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