Alan & Brenda Leonard

12/5/02 03:14:

> I don't need bookends. I think bookends are for people who don't have enough
> books.


I suppose it depends on your perspective....I have bookends holding up the
books that are piled on top of bookshelves and most other flat surfaces, due
to a shortage of booshelves. <g>

But they're cheap enough to make, I wouldn't buy them, either!

brenda

Helen Hegener

At 9:03 AM +0100 12/6/02, Alan & Brenda Leonard wrote:
>12/5/02 03:14:
>
>> I don't need bookends. I think bookends are for people who don't
>>have enough
> > books.

Okay, I've been skiplurking, <g> so I caught this comment from Sandra
on the rebound, when Brenda replied to it. <g>

We have literally *tons* of books (we're publishers - what an excuse!
<g>) and I absolutely love old bookends. I have quite a collection,
especially of antique metal ones; they're one of the first things I
hunt for in antique and second hand stores. I have some beautiful old
statuary-type bookends, which are kind of like miniature scuptures in
duplicate. My favorite bookend is a burnt ceramic horsehead bookend.
It was one of the very few recognizable items my parents pulled out
of the wreckage of their home after a huge wildfire swept through
their Alaskan neighborhood a few years ago. I also especially like
two gemstone bookends one of our sons gave me for my birthday a few
years ago - they're a huge elongated crystal-filled geode that was
split in two and mounted on lovely wooden bases.

So - I have enough books all right (well, maybe not...), but not
nearly enough bookends. <g>

Helen

Tia Leschke

>
> Okay, I've been skiplurking,

Oh I *like* that term.
Tia