Odd request for fans of J.D. Robb's ... in Death series

Karen, what a great idea, love the name of the book you came up with.

Wish I had more to add for your project but don’t have any of the books on my iPad. for doing a quick search. Looked on Google books but you already have what I saw there.

Thanks for posting your other bookmarks, looks like they have a story to tell. 😁

—Janie

kc, I expect there might be quite a few more mentions of poker in the series...and, yes, it's never a bad time to reread a favorite book!

Regards,
Kareni

Janie, as regards the two bookmarks I posted above, here is their story.

You might recall that several years ago, I made a thread

What would be on your 'Ideal Bookshelf'?

romancebooklovers.freeforums.net/thread/1870/on-ideal-bookshelf

I also asked family and friends what they would put on their Ideal Bookshelves.

One college friend mentioned having been quite taken by The Soul of an Octopus. She said that she could no longer eat octopus after having read the book. Thus the bookmark for her. The octopus came from a card, and the other illustrations were from gift wrapping paper.

A high school era friend wrote back saying, "The World Almanac -- the 1968 version -- sat atop a bookshelf along with the Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedia at the end of a hallway by my bedroom. I stumbled across this book around the time I was ten or so (1971?) and it was easily the book I read the most in my pre-teen and early teen years. It was a window on so much of the world. I was fascinated to read about different states, countries, flags, Olympic medalists, election results, and tons of other statistics and information. I suppose it was the internet of our day. It didn’t dawn on me until 1974 that it was possible to buy an updated almanac and that life didn’t end in 1968. I remember devouring the new 1975 almanac I received for Christmas in 1974."

l had a lot of fun making his bookmark! I went looking in thrift stores but was not at all surprised to not find the book. I asked the reference librarian at the bigger city nearby for help thinking she might be able to use her internet skills to find some interior pages. Imagine my surprise when she said, "Just a minute" and looked something up on her terminal. A few minutes later, I was holding a copy of the 1968 World almanac! Evidently the library has some 120 different volumes in the back. Who would have guessed! I copied a few pages and used snippets for the bookmark. There was much more information I'd have loved to include. Who knew that a doctor's house call cost less than ten dollars in 1968?

The bigger city nearby also has a store for artists/teachers/etc that is filled with recycled goods. The front of the store sells some finished artworks as well as some priced materials such as partially used Prismacolor pencils, paints, tiles, fabric, and more. The back of the store has the world's supply of toilet paper rolls plus tubs of greeting card fronts, game bits, used pencils and crayons, small pieces of fabric, and more. I went through a tub of stamps there and found the pair with the 1968 postmark as well as the unused stamp released in 1968. All the materials in the back of the store are pay what you wish and free for teachers.

I also included clip art I found online and colorful cars that were from a Father's Day card I'd given my husband.

This is perhaps more information than you were expecting!

Regards,
Kareni

Janie, how did the bookmarks come out? Inquiring minds want to know!

Whoops, sorry, kareni, I was. Sounds interesting & looking forward to seeing it. Thanks!

You are very creative. I'm envious.

Would be hard to pick a favorite, Kareni. Well done!

—Janie