Bookish Buys: Standard Designs

Standard Designs on Etsy has some really great author and book-related prints. Here are my faves...

Oscar Wilde print

Virginia Woolf print

J.D. Salinger print

Alphabet print

Typewriter print

Charles Dickens print 

Picasso print

Animal Farm print

Sylvia Plath print

Joy Division prints

Radiohead print

Brideshead Revisited print

Bookish Buys: Pretty Prints by Mei Lee

Bookish Buys are back! I haven't done one of these posts in awhile because, well, I don't know if you've noticed but I haven't been blogging much. Life and stuff, you know. But I'm getting into the swing of things once again which is very exciting (for me, at least), and I have some gorgeous products to share from Mei Lee a.k.a. Rocketrictic a.k.a. This Journal is Really Heartfelt. She does some really beautiful watercolour designs featuring quotes from the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Green, Neil Gaiman and The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. Here are some of my faves...

LBD tee

LBD tote

LBD case

Woolf card

Kafka card

Fitzgerald print

Angelou print

Niequist print

Gaiman tote

Green tote

Green skin

Green card

Bukowski print

Green cushion

Green tote

Green case

In My Mailbox: Oops, I Did It Again

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren, in which bloggers share what books they've picked up in the past week.

Twice this week, I received books in the mail that I completely forgot I'd ordered - not a good sign. The first was Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham, which I know nothing about but appealed to me because; a) It has a pretty cover, and b) It has the word cake in the title. Sold.

The second was Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, which I bought coz again, I liked the cover, and I also feel that it's about time I read some Woolf. I'm a bit nervous because (embarrassingly) the only knowledge I really have of her/her work is from the movie The Hours, which I thought was awful. But I'll let the book speak for itself - when I get around to it!

I also received two books that I ordered for Aussie Author Month - Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey and My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin. Sadly, I've been a bit slack with my reading lately and I'm going on holiday in exactly one week, so realistically I think I'll only have time to read and review one more book after my current one this month. But I'm still participating in the Aussie Author Challenge, so I'll definitely be reading the books I don't get to ASAP.