In the process of cleaning my Studio/Library you won’t believe what I found – book lists! These handwritten notes are booklists I’ve put together while on travel. As I’m always visiting bookstores when we travel, I also make it a point to write down titles of books that I want to check out when I get back home.
I know one of these lists is from when we were in Vancouver a couple of years ago. I recognize the hotel notepad I used. The other one is from when we were in Belgium. I remember because I have it on the back of a business card of a calligrapher. We were in Belgium when my husband took a workshop there several years ago. The last one must be from one of our Summer trips to Germany.
Usually when we get back home I try to add these titles to an Amazon wishlist or my library wishlist but I don’t think I’ve added these. I look forward to spending some time going through these and thinking about the books that I thought were interesting at the time. I wonder if they’ll still sound interesting to me now.
For now off to continue reading because I want to finish another book before the month is out. I’ll tell you more about my January reads next time.
How fun! Kind of like buried treasure! You’ll have to let us know if you find any books that sound ‘unputdownable’. 🙂
What a fun bit of memorabilia from your travels!! I’d hang on to them, even after you add the titles to your Amazon list. Think how fun it will be to look back on these lists in a couple of decades. 🙂
I find lists of books occasionally–it is fun to see what you eventually read and if you are even still interested in others. The lists would make great journal ephemera. 🙂
What a fun find! Have fun going through them!
What fun and interesting find! I hope you’ll share the titles you still find interesting from the lists. 🙂
Oh, what fun! Summer before last I keyed in a bunch of handwritten booklists (but not from travelling, just from normal life!) and it brought back so many memories (and recalled so many good reading intentions)!
What a treasure trove! I hope you have fun searching out the books on your lost lists and find renewed interest in many–if not all–of the titles.