Category Archives: Booklore

Entries and posts that relate to the creation or consumption of books

Blurb

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Francois Lachance

From the Fourth Edition of The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. blurb A brief description of the contents of a book printed on the dust jacket. Often couched in enthusiastic and, at times, extravagent [sic] terms. The … Continue reading →

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Don Quick Shot

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Francois Lachance

I may not be the first to play on the name of the windmill-tilter nor the first to be surprised by the eruption of a good chunk of Cervantes in a 1959 printing of The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose … Continue reading →

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Stepping Out by Stepping In

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Lew Welch, transcribed. Step out into the Planet, Draw a circle two feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things      nobody understands and,      maybe, nobody’s ever seen. How many can you find? Lew Welch 6/12/64 Can you hear the intonations … Continue reading →

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The Curled Kitten

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Warm is a Circle Written and Illustrated by Hilary Thompson Hantsport, Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press, 1979 It was the title that attracted me to this book, I thought it had something to do with synesthesia. What I discovered is true … Continue reading →

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Setting Up the Punchline

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Francois Lachance

“Playing against Type” by Doug Gibson – review of Gutenberg’s Fingerprint: Paper, Pixels and the Lasting Impression of Books by Merilyn Simonds The final section of the book allows Merilyn Simonds, the early adopter, to predict where books are going. … Continue reading →

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One Little One and Another

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Francois Lachance

It was tiny in its first edition. It grew a little. Still palm sized. Patti Smith Woolgathering On the back of the dust jacket of the second edition: “Everything contained in this little book is true, and written just like … Continue reading →

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The Ends of Being and Books

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Paved paradise, put up a parking lot – Joni Mitchell Books had opened in childhood imaginations of other lives in which the idea of our own lives dwelling took on depths and heights, colors and figures, a new ground beyond … Continue reading →

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Seduced by the Paratext

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Leo Babauta Zen Habits: Mastering the Art of Change [2014] has a lovely cover by Lisa Class And the design by Matt Avery on the flyleaf offers this sensitive layout of a quotation by Thich Nhat Hanh. Drink your tea … Continue reading →

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S-o-r-t-i-n-g Sort of Thing

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Robert Bringhurst SOME REFLECTIONS ON READING AND WRITING CULTURE AND NATURE & SORTING THINGS OUT The cover title is nicely “sorted” on the half-title page. READING WRITING CULTURE NATURE SORTING SORTING SORTING A fine production from the Rochester Institute of … Continue reading →

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Drink Me Lookalikes

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Looks like Alice https://shakespeareillustration.org/2016/08/07/juliet-2/ It’s Juliet by H.C. Selous. Used to illustrate the lines: “What if it be a poison, which the friar / Subtly hath minister’d to have me dead. [Act IV. Scene III.] Source Text: The Plays of … Continue reading →

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