When I read a blog or a magazine or a newspaper and see a book recommended (or when TW does this) I will do one of two things. I’ll either save the name of the book in an Evernote folder to reserve at the library when our book stash gets low. Or, I’ll head to Amazon, find the book and then use a library bookmarklet to instantly find it at my library and reserve it. Occasionally, our library won’t have the book so I immediately save it to my Amazon wish list. I’ll go back a few months later, to my wishlist, and try again to reserve it at my library. Sometimes I am successful, other times not so much.
A few weeks ago, I really cleaned out my Amazon wishlist. If my library still didn’t have the book, I used the online inter-library loan request form and then happily deleted the book from my wishlist. Nice, eh?
One of the books that arrived from the nice folks at University of South Florida was Snapshots of Bloomsbury. Surprisingly interesting.
Thinking about how Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell took photos and organized their albums, and as an extension, how women did such things in the late 1800s when photography and photo albums were just becoming popular. Family photo albums were women’s art.
Really interesting glimpse, visual glimpse, into that world through photography.
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Hmmm, maybe like today’s scrapbooking!
Yep, like today’s scrapbooking. Very much like that. Or look at some of the mommyblogging and mommyvideoblogging going on, very much like that too.
Wouldn’t it be interesting to compare your photo albums to Aunt Jane’s? And, I’m betting Uncles Jim, Don and Dave weren’t responsible for their family photo albums were they? Nope, the aunties were in charge. Women’s art. Cool stuff.