Canine

Yours, Roxanne.

Boston Public Library.

Helen Sewell.

via.

Grant Cornett.

Sian Keegan.

Joan Crawford on the set of Torch Song.

Lady and the Tramp.

Tyler Stott.

Sarah Goodreau.

BAD POSTCARDS.

Vogue Brasil, August 2013, ph. Jacques Dequeker.

Ellen Surrey.

Cary Grant.

Canine Casanova.

Lucy Eldridge.

Lisa Hanawalt.

Dora Kallmus/Madame d’Ora.

Annette Marnat.

Gordon Parks.

See all the previous COMPILATION posts here.

BOOKS - June / July / August

Book time.

Note - I discovered so many picture books during the last three months that I'm going to do a separate post devoted to them.

Note (Part II) - I wrote the same thing last time I did a book post. Oops.

Note (Part III) - here's a link to the last book post, here's the December / January / February / March one, and here's all the rest.  You can always browse through everything filed under the "books" tag here.

[Edit - here is the children's books / picture books post]

Starting off with the books I hope to page through one day....

Rock the Shack: The Architecture of Cabins, Cocoons and Hide-Outs by S. Ehmann and S. Borges.

Bauhaus by Jeannine Fiedler and Peter Feierabend.

Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom by Deborah Yaffe.

Ghosts And Ruins by Ben Catmull.

Sunday Night Movies by Leanne Shapton.

The High Fidelity Art Of Jim Flora by Irwin Chusid, Barbara Economon and Jim Flora.

Inside the World of Board Graphics: Skate, Surf, Snow by Robynne Raye and Michael Strassburger.

Modern Art Desserts / The Invention of Murder / Anything Goes: A History of American Musical Theatre

Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction's Most Beloved Heroines / Print & Pattern Kids / Still: American Silent Motion Picture Photography

The Lady of the Camellias / Duplex / Night Film

The Humans / One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses / Nine Inches: Stories

Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson / The Road Through the Wall by Shirley Jackson

And some of the books I enjoyed reading during the last few months...

The Collected Stories of Richard Yates (At this point I've read almost everything Richard Yates has ever written and this saddens me [both because I won't have any more books of his to read... and because so many of his stories/books are highly depressing]) / The House in Paris by Elizabeth Bowen / True Grit by Charles Portis (I loved this so much - I wish that I had read it when I was Mattie's age) / Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (as if I needed to start another mystery series.... oh well) 

Top of the Rock: The Rise and Fall of Must See TV by Warren Littlefield (I <3 Frasier 4ever) / My Dirty Dumb Eyes by Lisa Hanawalt / In Character: Actors Acting / Explainers: The Complete Village Voice Strips (1956-1966) by Jules Feiffer

BOOKS - April / May

Book time.

Note - I discovered so many picture books during the last two months that I'm going to do a separate post devoted to them.

[edit - here's that picture book post.]

[Also, here's a link to the December / January / February / March book post and here's all the other previous book posts.]

Some of the books I enjoyed reading in April and May (an odd mix) -

We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy by Yael Kohen / Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier / No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy / Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life: Volume One by Bryan Lee O'Malley / Everything is Perfect When You're a Liar by Kelly Oxford / The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey / Housekeeping vs. the Dirt by Nick Hornby / A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter

Now all the awesome-looking (non-picture-book) books I found during the last two months (aka - books I plan to read someday)....

My Dirty Dumb Eyes by Lisa Hanawalt

How to Boil an Egg by Rose Carrarini

Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted and All the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong / Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A Critical Reading of the Series (BFI TV Classics) by Anne Billson / Strippers, Showgirls and Sharks: A Very Opinionated History of the Broadway Musicals That Did Not Win the Tony Award by Peter Filichia

Artists' Textiles 1940-1976 by Geoff Rayner, Richard Chamberlain and Annamarie Phelps

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

Ranch Houses: Living the California Dream by David Weingarten and Lucia Howard, photography by Joe Fletcher / Hello Nature by William Wegman

The Book of Palms by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius

Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles by Ron Currie, Jr.

Hello World: Where Design Meets Life by Alice Rawsthorn / Decorative Art 50s / Eames Design by John Neuhart and Marilyn Neuhart / Jacqueline Groag: Textile & Pattern Design 

The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer

Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers by Janet Malcolm / How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare by Ken Ludwig / Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey

Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley

Pancakes: 72 Sweet and Savory Recipes for the Perfect Stack by Adrianna Adarm / Crackers & Dips: More than 50 Handmade Snacks by Ivy Manning, photographed by Jen Altman / Smoke & Pickles: Recipes and Stories from a New Southern Kitchen by Edward Lee

Avedon Fashion 1944-2000: The Definitive Collection

The Dinner by Herman Koch / Zebra Forest by Adina Rishe Gewirtz / Unnatural Creatures stories selected by Neil Gaiman

Alastair Morton and Edinburgh Weavers: Visionary Textiles and Modern Art by Lesley Jackson

Mermaid in Chelsea Creek by Michelle Tea

Barnaby: Volume One by Crockett Johnson / Bad Machinery: The Case of the Team Spirit by John Allison

That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion by Rachel Herz / Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality by Jacob Tomsky