I love lists, and I love bookish lists even more, so I’m a sitting duck for books like this one: “Literary Listography: My Reading Life in Lists,” which was an impulse buy (ooh, shiny!) at the bookstore. I’m filing this under shelf candy, or books that will look good on my bookshelves.
The Listography books (by one of my all-time favorite publishers, Chronicle Books) are a set of list-making journals by the website listography.com. There are Listography books for various interests (music, travel, food, film, parenthood, friends, love, etc), and for bookish folk, there’s “Literary Listography.”
I was sold on the end-papers alone — so pretty!
Here’s the introduction by Lisa Nola of Listography:
Inside, there are over 70 lists to make, enough to keep you occupied for a whole year (or more!) of reading, all embellished with lovely watercolor art by Holly Exley.
Here are a few spreads:
“Fictional characters I would not get along with”
“Fantasy and magical realism books I recommend”
“Favorite quotes”
“Fictional crimes I have witnessed”
“Favorite troubled characters”
I love the artwork! Here are some more favorites:
And I’ve just started filling some pages in:
I’ve gone through a lot of book journals, but I think this one is going to be a favorite!
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Literary Listography, softcover, P695 at National Book Store
That’s too pretty to write in! :) Maybe tear out some pages and frame them!
Paper’s nice and thick and just lovely!
Is that your own handwriting? Gosh.. It’s so beautiful!! I envy you.. Hahaha.. ??
Umm, yeah. Kinda freestyling it because I don’t have the patience (or time) to learn calligraphy just yet hehe.
I don’t think you need to learn… Your handwriting is purrfect… Love the pens you’ve used specially the colored one.
tee hee, thanks, Ela