Thank You Danielle!

R has just come in with the mail and a small tub of Haagen-Daz ice cream. The real treat was finding this bookmark from Danielle! She kindly offered five bookmarks for a draw on her blog, A Work in Progress, and I was so lucky as to have won this one. The artwork is entitled 'Reading on the Rocks' by John George Brown and just so happens to be set on a resort island in New Brunswick. Perfect for a Canadian like me! Kristina and I are reading the next book in our Across the Pond book club for two starting tomorrow. It's a Persephone title, Saplings, and as I opened it tonight I noticed that it was missing the bookmark they usually come with. Great timing Danielle, thank you so very much, I love it!

Bookmarks

Working in a library like I do, you have access to bookmarks that have been left behind. If they are not claimed then after awhile they become fair game. It seems like a lot of people go to England, buy bookmarks and then proceed to lose them. Sometimes I will theme my bookmarks to the book that I am reading. My lovely red Chatsworth bookmark (another English destination souvenir left behind) holds my place in The Mitfords because of the link to a Mitford sister, Deborah, The Duchess of Devonshire.

This one is my absolute favourite and has been holding my place in books for years. I wonder if the person that lost it was bothered at all, I know I would be.