Read in style

If you find your book accessory assortment lacking, head on over to etsy to spice it up with handmade bookmarks, covers, bookends or vintage reading lamps. Typically I use gum wrappers, receipts or plane tickets to mark my page, but I was given an adorable robot bookmark as a gift, which I have been diligent about not losing.

Since I tend to have several books in progress at once, I decided to get another bookmark and found this dino marker for only a buck!

And on my "Favorites" page, I've had these bookends saved for a while. Nonchalant cowboys love holding up books! Also by the same artist: t-rex, "fancy horses," cats and sewing machine bookends.

wild things

My two favorite childhood books, Bill Pete's Cowardly Clyde and Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, feature rather large monsters; I'm not sure what this says about me. But I do know that pretending to be a fierce creature is fun, which is why I want these reversible bandannas, which are temporarily out of stock from their etsy store.



And also, you should probably watch this trailer again, just because.

an experiment

My book club book this month is No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July. It is dark, funny and lovely. She has a website for the book where she writes on kitchen appliances.