vergessene Lesezeichen

Heute Nachmittag habe ich das Wien-Buch ausgelesen, das ja nur sehr dünn war. Es war ganz amüsant geschrieben, und hat Lust auf Wien gemacht - für eine deutsche Schriftstellerin sogar gut und flüssig geschrieben. Allerdings mag sie keine Katzen und das macht sie mir letztendlich doch wieder unsympathisch.

Und in Anbetracht dessen, das wir bald in den Urlaub fliegen, werde ich die nächste Woche nur dünne Bücher lesen. Was nach Thailand mitfliegen wird, habe ich mir natürlich auch schon überlegt.

Heute Abend beginne ich jedenfalls mit diesem hier:

Michael POPEK
Forgotten Bookmarks

A Bookseller's Collection of Odd

Things Lost Between the Pages

Kurzbeschreibung: It's happened to all of us: we're reading a book, something interrupts us, and we grab the closest thing at hand to mark our spot. It could be a train ticket, a letter, an advertisement, a photograph, or a four-leaf clover. Eventually the book finds its way into the world-a library, a flea market, other people's bookshelves, or to a used bookstore. But what becomes of those forgotten bookmarks? What stories could they tell?

By day, Michael Popek works in his family's used bookstore. By night, he's the voyeuristic force behind www.forgottenbookmarks.com, where he shares the weird objects he has found among the stacks at his store.

Forgotten Bookmarks is a scrapbook of Popek's most interesting finds. Sure, there are actual bookmarks, but there are also pictures and ticket stubs, old recipes and notes, valentines, unsent letters, four-leaf clovers, and various sordid, heartbreaking, and bizarre keepsakes. Together this collection of lost treasures offers a glimpse into other readers' lives that they never intended for us to see.