This week’s edition of Weekly Geeks is just what I was waiting for…
focus on one of the most useful tools for a bibliophile: Bookmarks
I have been contemplating a post about my adventurous bookmark for a while now. It’s really an amazing story!
We went on holiday to the fabulous Unesco World Heritage Site Cappadocia in Turkey. In Göreme’s bookshop 1001 Books we bought Barbara Nadel’s Dance with Death: a mystery that’s situated in the area.
With it, we got a free bookmark. Mr Gnoe used that a lot! It brought back happy memories of our hiking holiday :) But a few months after we got back home it suddenly disappeared :( We looked everywhere, took apart our whole house, flicked through all the books we had recently read, looked under cupboards, but no: it really was completely lost.
And then… after 2 weeks the weather was great so we decided to have a drink in the park after work. I parked my bicycle at the gate — what the *** was that? I saw some familiar colours in the grass! Yes, it definitely was our own bookmark from Turkey :-o No idea how it got there! Thus ended the trip of our Cappadocian marker. And its life because it was in no state to be used anymore :( So it was recycled to be reincarnated. LOL
After that I made Mr Gnoe a personal bookmark with pictures of our holiday. And what do you know? He lost it.. : Again.
Well, better look at the bright side of things: such a good excuse to go back for another vacation in Cappadocia! To get another bookmarker that’s as fond of travelling as we are :)
The rest of my bookmark collection can be seen (and read about) on flickr.
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zaterdag 9 mei 2009 bij 20:00
claire
What a fun story! And I love your collection, they’re so pretty! And useful (because they’re flat). I also pick a marker that fits the book I’m reading! :D
zaterdag 9 mei 2009 bij 21:35
rikkiscraps
The bookmark must have looked great while it was still whole. No wonder your husband used it all the time, gets you into a good mood with the sun and the blue sky. Things sometimes seem to take on a life of their own, don’t they? Great story and a good excuse to go on another trip.
Happy weekend! Rikki
zondag 10 mei 2009 bij 01:10
susan
Enjoyed the story and the bookmark is still lovely even after wear.
zondag 10 mei 2009 bij 01:53
uncertainprinciples
Wow! And the bookmark is really pretty and colorful – doesn’t look like it’s spent some time in the grass!
zondag 10 mei 2009 bij 02:38
Gavin
What a great story! Isn’t it strange when things disappear and then reappear like that?
zondag 10 mei 2009 bij 02:54
Maree
Great story!
Happy Weekly Geeks :)
zondag 10 mei 2009 bij 17:43
Trisha
That is an awesome bookmark story! I love thinking of the bookmark as having an adventure rather than as getting lost. What travels and travails that book mark must have had! Wonderful.
maandag 11 mei 2009 bij 03:52
pussreboots
Wow that bookmark has been through a lot.
maandag 11 mei 2009 bij 21:28
Nymeth
wow, that’s quite a coincidence that you found it!
dinsdag 12 mei 2009 bij 12:08
Kerrie
This is the first time I have visited oyur blog. I love the souvenir bookmarks that you have to remember trips by. The evoke such good memories don’t they?
woensdag 13 mei 2009 bij 03:25
gautami tripathy
It reminds of a book I lost and found. It was in my second year college. I used to read Agatha Christies like crazy. I was reading Dead Man’s Folly and finished it. One of my friends asked for it and I lended it to her. And despite asking for it numerous I did not get it back. She had passed it someone else and so it went on. I forgot all about it.
After four years, I was sitting with another friend of mine when she took out Dead Man’s Folly. Can you believe it? It was the ONE I had owned! How did I know? I had put my initials inside a small drawing inside the front cover. Although battered, it was whole! Promptly I snatched my book and walked away.
I still have it!
Mark it down
woensdag 13 mei 2009 bij 12:12
Gnoe
Wow, that’s so cool! :) I guess you’ll believe me when I say I know how that must have felt! LOL
woensdag 13 mei 2009 bij 14:15
Chris@bookarama
Oh no! Well, at least you got it back.
woensdag 13 mei 2009 bij 17:22
Emily A.
Great colors/design on that bookmark (despite the wear and tear!) – I like the idea of bookmarks being connected to places you’re traveled.
zaterdag 16 mei 2009 bij 17:14
Jodie
Haha fun story, if you take another trip and pick up a bookmark be sure to post about it!
zaterdag 20 juni 2009 bij 05:28
BIQBOQ
Very interesting post, good job.