Thanks again everyone for the wonderful support you give me when I go on jabbering about my adventures in bookbinding. I have a lot of fun doing it and who knows maybe one day I’ll be experienced enough to save a famous manuscript from becoming a target for the real bookworms! Wouldn’t that be a cool story to tell.

Anyway, I am ready for the weekend aren’t you? I hope to spend some time at the bookstore, go to a party and of course curl up with the books. I’ve got several going on and I want to begin some others too. Here’s what is on my “must read soon” stack.

• Immortal by Traci L. Statton. I’m about half way through this book and have found it to be an entertaining read. I’m not sure what will happen in the next part so it’s good to have a surprise in store.
• A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George. This is turning out to be a very good mystery novel.
• The World Without Us by Alan Wiseman. I’m only up to chapter three so I think this will take me a while. There’s something about the audio version that reminds me of those old movies we used to watch in science class but the information itself is definitely something to think about.
• The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro. Being that I want to read more short stories (signed up for the Short Story Challenge), I’ve also decided to take the plunge and join in A Curious Singularity. I’m really looking forward to sharing thoughts on short stories and I’m excited about hopefully learning to embrace the short story!
• Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This is a book group read and also one of my challenge reads. I have been looking forward to this book a long time.

I think that should keep me plenty busy this weekend. I hope everyone has a great weekend and I am going to try to post something for The Sunday Salon so hope to see you then.

Finally, I had the chance to get some pictures of one of my recent bookbinding projects. I hope you’ll enjoy checking out my rounded spine book. This is very similar to the other hardback book I made – the difference is in the spines.

My next book project will be a chunky book, which means lots and lots of blank pages to fill up. I had already cut the pages and pressed them at my last class so today I choose my decorative paper and started working on the end pages. I decided to use a very colorful Chiyogami paper for the bookcovers and end papers but as it’s pretty thin I had to back it with more paper so it can withstand the glue. Backing the paper meant using Filmoplast and some blank paper and pressing it together with a hot plate to transfer the glue. Very neat.

I finished up class by punching sewing holes through the signatures and end pages, and I left my paper block in a book press until next week when sewing begins (my favorite part).

So that was my bookish day. I’m off to enjoy the latest issue of Bookmarks Magazine which arrived today. By the way, have you guys checked out their web site? They now have most of their reviews archived online. Good to know.