Ideal Bookshelf 8:ST by Jane Mount

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I’m late.  I know.  I just discovered Jane Mount through 20X200.

Loving.  And Dorking Out.  The pieces in her Ideal Bookshelf series are simply beautiful and beautifully evocative.

Loving, not just because there seems to be some similarities between Ideal Bookshelf 8: ST and books on my shelf. (♥: Ummm, right.)

I laughed a little the first time I saw Ideal Bookshelf 8: ST.  I knew how I had come to have the books that are shared with the print, as well as why I, intentionally, don’t have a few in that are in the piece.  The more I looked at it, the more I began to wonder about ST.

I’m fascinated by Mount’s Ideal Bookshelf series.  It really is an interesting way to peek into someone’s life.  Or assume that you’ve seen something.

Time to start collecting.

Nikki♥

Jane Mount

Jane Mount’s Etsy Shop

Jane Mount at 20X200

Remember how I was going to start taking book breaks.  I was going to try to read things besides cook, crafty and showmehow books.  Things Fall Apart was top of the list with a nod to the diaspora.

So, how’s that going? Kinda, not?  I’m in recipe-ville.  I’m all about cooking and stuff.  I’ve watched a lot of telly, too.  (♥:Excuses.) Fine.  Seriously, I want/need a comfy reading chair.

Remember that denim and print tote bag.

So, how’s that going? Huh? Uhhh.  I know.  The Make:Stuff List is growing and I’ve yet to get beyond the ideas in my head.  Arrggghhh.

I’ve got to live by the writing on wall.

Nikki♥

I wake up at 3am. A lot. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to get up or go back to sleep. So, I ended up watching a lot of David Chang clips online.  Ran across this one from last year.

I wandered over to gq.com and started reading the Chang/Meehan Eat A Peach! posts.

Nikki♥

Is it wrong to prefer a particular look of David’s? (♥:Yes.) Fine.

I miss reading.  I miss really getting lost in a book.  Being taken to a place in someone else’s head with my own mind painting by the numbers given.  All I can seem to handle right now are the pretty how-to/lets do! cook and create books.

I can’t seem to sit or sit still.  I’ve got this attention deficit issue that isn’t helped by my best friends ibook and dsl.  I hang out with them so much that I don’t give myself any non-visual stimulation time.  And I have to get working on making a comfortable space in the apt to just chill.  The chairs are good for writing, not reading.  And the new bed is all warm milk and counted sheep.  I can’t keep my eyes open.

So while I look for curl up-able seating, I’m instituting book breaks.  An hour a day.  Okay, maybe 30 minutes.  Just to get started.  Get my head into it, without my back complaining too much.

And since I have to start somewhere.  I think that somewhere is Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.

Nikki♥

Coming back from lunch and a walk on the beach yesterday, I popped into B&N to browse a bit.  I don’t believe in love-at-first, you know, but I fell.  I fell hard.

Sitting on the corner of a random table with a ‘$25 and under gift’ sign were a few of the coveted Penguin Classics collection designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, eight of which were just released here in the states.  I couldn’t quite remember exactly where I’d read about her and the beautiful editions.  (♥:design*sponge)   I just stood there for a few minutes, touching them.  And in my head, thankfully, I purred, “Mmmm, pretty.”

Penguin Classics designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith

(images: Coralie Bickford-Smith’s site)

Then, on the way to the section I was supposed to be in, I saw an endcap that had me at H-H-Hello.  Oh, Melville House, what are you doing to me?

Melville House Publishing's Classic Novellas

Melville House Publishing's Contemporary Novellas

I guess the first two hurdles are behind us.  I noticed and now, I want.  The whole obtaining thing is going to be a challenge.  I’m going to play hard to get.  I said I was obvious, not easy.

Nikki♥