Bookplates

Classic finds

Oooh, look at the lovely bookplates I just got.

So am I going to stick these in my books?

Of course not! That would degrade the condition of both the books and the bookplates themselves!

Ah, the disease of collecting…

(Oh, note the simplified copyright of “Peanuts Characters copyright 1950.” Doesn’t seem that meaningful; Charlie Brown was greatly redesigned since then, and Lucy didn’t even exist in 1950…)

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New releases
The World According to Snoopy and sundry other things

I just picked up a copy of The World According to Snoopy, which was released in the UK late last year. This hardcover book, with its cover akin to a 1970s textbook, falls into the “inspirational messages” category. It’s pages are a mix of single-page displays of individual Peanuts strips (always …

book adaptations of A Charlie Brown Christmas
Review catchup

I apologize for the lack of reviews in a while. It’s my own fault… and the fault of that new Hallmark edition of A Charlie Brown Christmas which interacts with a stuffed animal. “That would be a great review to do as a video”, thought I. But videos take time to …

New releases
Review: Where’s Snoopy?

The thing it understand about the new hardcover Where’s Snoopy: A Search-and-Find Book by Natalie Shaw and Scott Jeralds is that this isn’t really a puzzle book a la Where’s Waldo? or some of those books of richly detailed photographs where it really takes careful poring over to locate the missing …