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Are you a book collector? Do you know about this fantastic journal, The Colophon: a book collector’s quarterly published from 1930-1950? Do you know our special collections has the full run through all its slight title changes? Did you know that each issue included an original piece of graphic art, some signed by the artist? Now you do...
In nature the bird who gets up earliest catches the most worms, but in book-collecting the prize falls to birds who know worms when they see them.
Michael Sadleir in The Colophon
Book: The Virgin Suicides
Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
No. of pages: 249
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Eugenides
Thoughts: The actuality that many teenagers view their towns in isolation, the events that happen seeming worldly important, their neighborhood a solitary world all its own, for the time being, is wonderfully portrayed here. It captures a specific point in time in the lives of the boys from whose point of view the story is told. The girls and their determined plight are fascinatingly portrayed in a way that pulls at your heart and leaves you contemplating life and its inevitable end, as well as the inevitable fact that time passes even after those we love are gone, a sense of melancholia lingering in the pages.
"It occurred to us that she and the girls read secret signs of misery in cloud formations, that despite the discrepancy in their ages something timeless communicated itself between them, as though she were advising the girls in her mumbling Greek, ‘Don’t waste your time on life.’" pg. 173
Book: Magical Thinking
Author: Augusten Burroughs
No. of pages: 268
Website: augusten.com
Thoughts: A memoir that reads almost as diary entries into the days in the life of the author. Augusten has a way with words, words that encourage magical thinking to occur in your own brains. As he recounts tales from his childhood through his adulthood, this is an amusing look into his every day life.
"I shop at the Korean market downstairs from my crummy apartment, where there is an entire aisle devoted to cream-flavored Japanese gummy worms." pg. 158
Book: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Author: Ransom Riggs
No. of pages: 352
Website: ransomriggs.com
Thoughts: With a quick pace and a story as peculiar as the title alludes to, wonderful characters and bits and pieces borrowed from a variety of myths and legends, this is simply a great story. A story that compels you to use your imagination, and consider all sorts of wondrous things.
"Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?" pg. 338