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Not many notebooks call for an impression of Edina Monsoon. This one, found by Ryan a.k.a. Our Embassy in England, does.

It’s a Lacroix!

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The New Yorker/Penguin postcards we ordered in bulk have arrived at National Bookstore in Rockwell. If you ordered postcards, please post your full name in Comments (It won’t be published) so we can tell Customer Service that you’re picking up your share. Each box costs Php895. You can claim your orders any time till June 6.

Pages from the working notebooks, the “Cahiers,” are written in fluid, all but illegible script, suggesting that Proust wrote quickly and easily. He wrote in lined notebooks, with double-lined red margins, where you sometimes find the absent-minded doodling of the author; at other times, he seems to be elaborating on the things he has set down. On one notebook page, he’s drawn a kind of surrealist collage of portraits (Proust looks to have been a capable, imaginative draftsman) that blend into one another, and which may offer clues to the way he conceived of his novel: an amalgam of people he knew in life, dismantled and reassembled to form the characters of his fiction.

Which reminds us that we’re reading Proust this year.

Read The Thrill of Proust’s Handwriting. Thanks to Butch for the alert.

And check out the syllabus for English 135: Fate and the Individual in European Literature, a class taught by W. H. Auden. (Thanks, Chus!)

The Hobbit limited edition Moleskine notebooks have just arrived and should be at at National Bookstore branches shortly.

The plain pocket notebook retails at Php1140, the larger journal is Php1550.


All notebooks come with a map of Wilderland, in case you need directions to the Desolation of Smaug.

Not a lot of stocks available; we’d stake out the nearest branch if we were you.

Moleskine pocket notebook, unlined, Php1100 at NBS.

Two retro technologies we cling to: writing by hand on notebooks made of paper, and audiocassettes.

Details engraved on the cover.

Plus stickers for customizing. Couldn’t resist cracking it open for a quick scribble.

P.S. Our Wu-Tang name is Sarkastik Ambassador. The Wu-Tang Name Generator knows all!

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The limited edition Hobbit-themed Moleskine notebooks. (Images from Design Taxi)

We shall haunt the bookstoresesss till they sssurface.