Margin Doodles No. 22

I have made a point of never including in these posts any cruel caricatures of my classmates that I've found in my old high school notebooks. And, yes, I have found several. But even though I disliked a few certain people for whatever reason all those years ago, a lot of them were and are still my friends, and I want bygones to stay bygones.

However, I am reasonably sure this guy doesn't resemble anyone I knew:

Dude seriously needs some coffee.

This poor girl probably would have turned out OK if I hadn't gone overboard on the contoured shading. She looks like a "before" picture in a Botox ad:

I think this guy is supposed to be one of the characters
from my Latin book.

Check out bean-head over on the left. Is that supposed to be a kerchief?

"Tarantara" is what the policemen sing in Pirates of Penzance

The Books I Can't Part With

The site Lovely Listing features a bookcase of the day, and today's is titled "Limited Selection."

The site asked, "If you could only choose a couple dozen books to keep, what would be at the top of your list?"

Faced with having to pare down my large collection, my first inclination is to keep the books that mean the most to me. That is, the physical books which hold some special meaning and can't, for me, be replaced by an ebook or a library copy.

• My 3 old Bibles
• My 1975 copy of Sybil
• King's Highway, the book I did the cover art for
• Hind's Feet on High Places

The next group of books I'd keep would be the ones that need the printed page and just don't work as well electronically.

• Art books filled with prints and etchings
• How-to books with lots of pictures and diagrams

Finally, I'd have to keep all the rare and out-of-print books.

• Old science fiction anthologies
• Books from my and my husband's childhood (Never Steal a Magic Cat, McBroom Tells a Lie, The Pop-Up Book of Star Wars)
• And probably many more

It's a good thing I do have more space than the little bookshelf in the picture, because I don't think everything I'd want to keep would fit there. But making this list has helped me think of a lot of books I can easily get rid of.

And by "get rid of" I mean "take to the used book store," where I can turn them in toward credit on more books!

Margin Doodles No. 21

Today in the ongoing saga of my freshman Latin notebook, we have a mystery! What doodle was so horrible, so offensive, or (most likely) so potentially embarrassing that I felt compelled to cut it out of the page?

A clue to the mystery: I can tell that the poofy-haired girl is supposed to
be Carrie Dollanganger as she looked in either the 2nd or 3rd book in
V.C. Andrews' Flowers in the Attic series.

Apparently I spent the rest of this class period practicing drawing braids.

Ja, vould you like some cocoa?

Then I had some fun doing a doodle makeover with my 4-colored ballpoint pen.