Nerdtopia
I like hanging out in National Bookstore, but then I am the kind of person who hyperventilates when she sees nice paper. Some of the things I’ve spotted in store lately:
I’m not sure if my puberty was triggered by seeing Warren Beatty in Heaven Can Wait or Matt Dillon in Rumblefish, but when Heaven Can Wait came out in 1978 (After the ice had thawed) I convinced my mom to take me to see it thrice. (Now that I think about it, my mom and I had the same crush.) My friend took a simpler approach: He put pictures of Warren Beatty under his pillow.
Star (Hardcover, Php1259) is the biography of Beatty by Peter Biskind, author of that great book about Hollywood in the 70s, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. The megalomaniacs and demented geniuses who defined the filmmaking of that period make the indies of the 90s onwards seem bland and wimpy: Down and Dirty Pictures is a little boring, even with the excesses of the Weinsteins.
On the left: a travel notebook (Php419) that contains an accordion folder for your travel documents, receipts, etc, and a notepad. Right: A set of 55 antiquarian bookplates (Php634.75).
You like bookplates huh? Okay, we’ll also give away bookplates with this week’s LitWit Challenge.
In the children’s section, The Lost Files of Nancy Drew: the scrapbook of our favorite girl detective. It comes with a set of postcards with the original cover art of the series. (Php395)
Wells Tower’s short story collection was a fixture in critics’ best books lists last year. The title story is a hilarious, gory, deeply moving tale of marauding Vikings. (Hardcover, Php1149)
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April 7th, 2010 at 00:31
I love bookplates. The more vintage-looking, the more irresistible they are to me. For some reason, though, actually using them feels like an indulgence. I usually end up thinking some in my possession are too beautiful to actually stick onto a book, so I have a bunch that I foresee will lose their adhesive at some point, unused as a result of this irrational “sayang” mentality.
April 7th, 2010 at 08:24
Bookplates! Nancy Drew postcards! An episode-in-the-making of Hoarders! Sigh.
April 7th, 2010 at 23:58
I like collecting pretty and unusual notebooks (well, as compared to the ones we used in school)! I hope I can find the travel notebook at NB Quezon Ave.