Blades upon Books - Traditionals

[Will Power]

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A recent op shop score.
Beautiful illustrations by Thorburn circa 1918.
Refreshing to see the dolphin represented as a bit mean and tough rather than the usual smiling chattering character we see everywhere.
And of course The Narwhale...
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Really like that, matching knives are well thought out

I'd love to get a copy of that, have a very nice hardback edn of Thorburn's Birds, not only are the illustrations beautiful but a lot of historical info about when birds were last nesting, seen or 'taken' (shot & stuffed) in Britain. There was something about Bee Eaters seen in the late c19th. This year British newspapers were at full throttle (as usual) about Bee Eaters being seen in Britain as proof of climate catastrophe.... he who forgets his history...

Here's a GEC 56 on a Thorburn page of Grouse

 

[5K Qs]

More mindless recreational reading from me. I recently read the second book in a Steven King murder mystery trilogy featuring a retired police detective named Bill Hodges. Entertaining, but I realized that King was using a "literary ploy" that used to annoy me when used by Dean Koontz in his early books: building suspense by putting children at risk in the story. Seems like a cheap and easy manipulation to me. Nonetheless, I'm currently working on the third book in the trilogy.


- GT

 

[meako]

Cheers Will Will Power
Its true about Thorburns Mammals as well... The passage on The Atlantic Right Whale generously points out the introduction of mechanised harpooning systems has possibly led to their decline in Arctic waters.......well stone me! is that even possible? this was in 1918 though . The Polecat has an unpleasant odour too....fair dos I suppose...somethings never change.

 

[screened porch]

building suspense by putting children at risk in the story. Seems like a cheap and easy manipulation to me.

I remember Pat Sajak once saying, "faster than Stephen King can put a child in jeopardy".

 

[mitch13]

Find a word book my daughter got me for fathers day

 

[meako]

 

[Jolipapa]

 

[mbkr]

Find a word book my daughter got me for fathers day
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I used to buy those for my Dad. I've been working my way through the ones he didn't get too whenever I'm in Tennessee.

 

[mitch13]

I used to buy those for my Dad. I've been working my way through the ones he didn't get too whenever I'm in Tennessee.

They are good to do Keep working your way through them.

 

[5K Qs]

I remember Pat Sajak once saying, "faster than Stephen King can put a child in jeopardy".

I don't know whether to be proud or ashamed to have ideas in common with Pat Sajak.

- GT

 

[Crazy Canuck]

 

[Jolipapa]

Live as a conqueror or die with glory... Tolstoï, The Road to Calvary.

 

[screened porch]

I think I'll live longer as a sycophant!

 

[kyhunt]

A few Bucks on top of a 1901 Bible encyclopedia. It was rebound by a gentleman in our church.

 

[kyhunt]

How about a 1908 edition of Ben-Hur and the 2018 forum knife. I’m not currently reading Ben-Hur but sitting in my office and noticed it with some other old books and thought it would make a good background.

 

[A.L.]

Really like that, matching knives are well thought out

I'd love to get a copy of that, have a very nice hardback edn of Thorburn's Birds, not only are the illustrations beautiful but a lot of historical info about when birds were last nesting, seen or 'taken' (shot & stuffed) in Britain. There was something about Bee Eaters seen in the late c19th. This year British newspapers were at full throttle (as usual) about Bee Eaters being seen in Britain as proof of climate catastrophe.... he who forgets his history...

Here's a GEC 56 on a Thorburn page of Grouse

Really digging that the acrylic here looks like feathers of bird. I don't know if it was intentional or not but it goes so well with the blade art.

 

[Will Power]

Really digging that the acrylic here looks like feathers of bird. I don't know if it was intentional or not but it goes so well with the blade art.

Nice to hear! It's called Pheasant Feathers, so it does match, I like the Acrylics GEC uses sort of like Old School Cell but without the dangers of it melting down and ruining knives- which does happen sometimes.

 

[Kirk Raptor]

I remember my dad telling me years ago that books sometimes came with the pages joined along one edge, so you had to use your pocket knife to separate the pages as you read. A quick Google search confirms this. Has anybody actually encountered an old, unread (unopened) book that they needed to cut the pages on to read?

I wonder if somebody made a special knife for this purpose.

I've had to do it with recently published books.

 

[Kirk Raptor]

I was aware that Sandford had written one with Letty as the protagonist, but I haven't seen it yet. I;ve read all of Sandford's novels, including the "young adult" ones with Michelle Cook (I enjoyed them quite a bit and I haven't been a "young adult" in a long, long time), except the newest ones. I have "Masked Prey" sitting here waiting for the mood to be right.

The Letty book is "The Investigator." She's a pretty tough cookie, and not someone to mess with.

Sandford also wrote a pretty good sci-fi novel called "Saturn Run." Liked it a lot.

 

[SFO]