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A new collection of never-before-seen poems and drawings by Shel Silverstein will be released in September! I used to love all his books – Where the Sidewalk Ends, The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic. They were my go to books when we had to check out books during library time. Those and the Babysitter’s Club and Guiness Book of World Records <– I dunno, I was just obsessed with weird record-setting people.
{via Suicide Blonde}
Not sure if any of you saw the photos of Natalie Portman at her premier for Black Swan the other night, so I posted them so that you could see her awesome clutch! I want it. The designer is Olympia Le-Tan and I guess the Lolita book purse Natalie carried is one of her latest designs. Now don’t get too excited, I clicked on her website thinking these puppies were going to run say $300 maybe $400 – oh no, try about $1500. Perhaps I’ll handcraft one for myself out of felt and hot glue instead.
Hehe, you know what book she should do next? Er, series of books. 
Tags: Black Swan, book, clutch, Natalie Portman, Olympia Le-Tan, premiere, Purse, Twilight
Wooooo! Live streaming of the London premiere of HP7 Part 1! Sorry Edward, I’m going to have to cheat on you with Harry for the next week or so until the movie comes out. You’ll forgive me right?
Next stop for me: Lincoln Center on Monday for the NYC premiere! Squeeee!!!
Tags: Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter, Lincoln Center, London, NYC, premiere
(Note: Hubby in the back, Edward in the front. Jeff has no idea)
Like Anna said in an earlier post, during this past weekend we both managed to fall off of the “I’m being a good wife and not obsessing over Twilight” bandwagon, and hopped effortlessly back on the “But, {insert husband’s name here}, Edward Cullen would never do that!” bandwagon. God help Jeff and Randy. I guess Randy got to see Anna jump back into her obsession in person over the weekend, so hopefully he was spared a little bit of shock. But poor, poor Jeffy. My obsession had it’s re-birth 36,000 feet up in the air in a window-seat on a plane when my Jet Blue TV screen was the only one not working on the entire plane. He had no idea of the craziness that would greet him on my return to the city 5 days later.
However, I like to think that my born-again obsession was a totally organic and natural/inevitable process. I non-chalantly took my book with me on my trip to LA this weekend “just in case I had some down-time, or there was nothing good to watch on the plane.” So, when my TV blacked out….it was go time baby, and I willingly picked up my book and traveled back to Forks. 6 hours later, I’m landing in LA and walking off the plane shamelessly still reading the book, (what? I was at the meadow scene! I have no regard for the rest of the world when I’m reading those precious pages).
And I continued to read. I had lots of work to do while I was out in LA, but when I had a little bit of downtime, I was reading. And then, once again, my TV was not working on my plane back to NYC, (I think I’m getting a voucher from JetBlue for that, holla!) and by that point, I took it as a sign from God that I should definitely be re-kindling my relationship with Edward Cullen.
And so we lived happily ever after 36,000 feet up in the air. We played vampire baseball somewhere over the Grand Canyon. I hung out with Alice and Jasper for a while somewhere over the Mid-Western states. He picked me up to go to prom as I was landing in NYC. And, we danced effortlessly across the floor at prom while I sat on the couch in my living room…..and as Jeff sat across the room from me on the other couch glaring at me and my book.
Edward Cullen wouldn’t glare at me.
Tags: Books, Edward Cullen, husbands, LA, reading, Travel, Twilight
Meanwhile, In Diagon Alley….
Heehee, who’s excited for Harry Potter 7 Part Uno?!?
Photo Credit: The Daily What
Tags: Broomstick, Deathly Hallows Part One, Diagon Alley, Harry Potter, Nimbus 3000
I just started reading this book yesterday. I’ve torn myself (temporarily) away from the Twilight series to read an adult book. It’s written from a dog’s perspective though so I’m hoping to gain insight into how Jack thinks. Maybe I can figure out what was going on in that little head of his when he peed on me this weekend. Yes. That’s right. He marked me. MARKED me. Lifted his leg and peed on me. I know exactly what he was thinking. “This is MY mommy. MINE. Not yours.” He was talking to the other doggies in the house.
Has anyone else read this book? It’s a bestseller evidently. And I noticed that the author of Water for Elephants has an accolade on the cover. Hehe.
Tags: doggies, RPattz, The Art of Racing in the Rain, Twilight, Water For Elephants
I’m totally buying this book this weekend. This couple is hilarious. Anyone who is married or has been with someone for a while can totally relate. Sorry to burst anyone’s bubble. To quote Jeff Kahn, “Instead of ‘I do’ they should change the vows to, ‘what the hell, I’ll give it a shot.’”
Ah, happily ever after.
Tags: Annabelle Gurwitch, I say shut up, Jeff Kahn, You say tomato
I finally organized our books (well most of them) and color coordinated our new shelves! Not bad eh? It only took the entire weekend. Bleh.
Tags: Books, color cooridinate, library, shelves
A library or a storage room. The longer we live here, the more stuff we accumulate and the more stuff we accumulate winds up in piles everywhere.
I hate clutter. Like haaaate. It’s so easy to be cluttered when you live in a small apartment. I’m slowly learning to be resourceful and find new ways to store things – like the 10,000 books we (mainly my husband) have. I’ve been researching different ways to store and display books and here are a few options I found.
Color coordinate my shelves. I’d be down with giving it a shot.
Turn my books into furniture. Cool, but just one end table wouldn’t do. I’d need to make a whole couch or something out of books before I could use them all up. So this option is out I think.
Floating shelves. Love these! Even though I can only stack a few books on them, I still think it’d be a fun way to display some of our books.
Tower of books. Yeeaah, not gonna happen. Cool idea though.
Burn my books? Nah. I love this room though and if I had a broken fireplace I would totally do this.
Book mobile. Sure. If I didn’t want to read my books ever again.
Tags: bookcases, Books, Decor, stacks of books
I found these “educational” books at a little gift store in SF the other week. They are freaking hilarious. They’d make great coffee table books or, even better, some great textbooks to further confuse your child.
They’re written by Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey – which is a joint pseudonym of author Dave Eggers and his brother Christopher. Their plan is to write a series of reference books full of completely absurd facts.
Here is the product description for their book Giraffes? Giraffes!
For many years the scientific and educational communities have wondered and worried about the possibility that semi-sane scholar-pretenders would find the means to publish a series of reference books aimed at children but filled with ludicrous misinformation. These books would be distributed through respectable channels and would inevitably find their ways into the hands and households of well-meaning families, who would go to them for facts but instead find bizarre untruths. The books would look normal enough, but would read as if written by people who have eaten too many lead-based paint chips. Giraffes? Giraffes! is the first in a proposed series of 377 reference books, all written by a couple now getting their chance to twist and tickle the brains of the impressionable. The book puts forth the following novel theories: that giraffes were not part of any evolutionary chain, but came here from Neptune, by way of very long (but convenient and fast) escalators; that giraffes are expert dancers, but become angry if asked about their dancing; that giraffes control over 90 percent of what we see in mirrors; and that the Giraffe navy is as strong as ever, contrary to recent claims in the popular press.
That’s it. I’m buying them.
Tags: Dave Eggars, Dr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey, Giraffes? Giraffes!
