All photos by the author (Marmi Le) If you are joining me here from Part I , welcome! If you are snobby about a certain author going by the initials of D. B., don’t worry. I purposely didn’t include any of his works here. This go-round is decidedly free of any titles where the main character in the movie adaptation is portrayed by Tom Hanks.
As you can tell by the cover photo, this sequel promises to be more rainbow-colored, even more French, and include non-book items such as the titular stuffed animals from the awesome series of books by Mo Willems. I even have some special surprises in store—a painting I made as a child, and a musical instrument I made for a class project in college!
We watched Enola Holmes on NFLX with our daughter, and she loved it! So I was thrilled to find in the thrift store the OG kid detective books that I devoured as a middle-school aged local public library enthusiast, Encyclopedia Brown. My girl Amari giving Lydia Tar quiet luxury vibes. How to draw Avatar TLA? The answer: You Don’t. My kids never played with the Classic Wooden Games in a Tin either. This two-level display is chockablock with good stuff. There’s Write Now by The Writing Cooperative’s Justin Cox , a Star Wars Origami book that both he and Eric Pierce would love, plus Dog Man . Which I just found out will be turned into a musical that will be staged by the Center Theater Group in LA. I’m so there! Our daughter stans Gordon Ramsay, so when my hubs found this book with a foreword by him and his daughter Tilly, he grabbed it. I already had the Julia Child book from before, but at the thrift store, I found this old cookbook by Emeril Lagasse. Used to watch him all the time on the Food Network back in the day. It had a recipe in there that my kid could already make totally on her own since we had all the ingredients and equipment. Just had it earlier today—delicious! (Watermelon granita) When my friend found out I was the biggest Twin Peaks fan, she gifted me with this book from her personal collection when I was over at her house for dinner! You’ll also see here in soft focus Mindy Kaling’s first book, David Letterman’s Top Ten Lists, and a VHS of Little Women Winona Ryder version. Got it since our library was unloading a bunch of movies for free. Now I just need to find a VHS player on eBay… Made this shekere for the late great Professor Gilbert Blount’s Musical Cultures of the World class at USC. Thanks to him, I can tell you what the difference is between a kendang and a bonang. RIP :’( My stack of news anchors and one anchor-adjacent (the late Gloria Vanderbilt is the mother of CNN’s Anderson Cooper). I love their book which was a series of letters between the two of them. Incidentally, at the same thrift store where I got that book, I also picked up a pair of Gloria Vanderbilt jeans for cheap. They must have been vintage from the 80s and fit perfectly! Great Expectations is my favorite Dickens novel, which we read in high school. But when I was in grade school, we must have had to do a book report on David Copperfield. I remember thinking it looked like the OG TLDR (that’s Original Gangsta Too Long Don’t Read). I actually never did, I got the Cliffs Notes, and rotary-dial phoned it in. To this day, I only know of him as the magician on TV who was the OG Penn & Teller or Shin Lim. So imagine my shock and awe when our library was giving away this Cliffs Notes that is even older than me, from 1973! Substack is telling me I’m nearing my “email length limit.” So…l8r sk8r
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How about -
Perfume
The city and the stars
The dark fields
You will like :)
Seeing that Encyclopedia Brown book took me back like 30 years in a blink. So many great memories!
But tell me: Surely you have more Star Wars books than just that origami one???