QOTW - June 19

[John]

What is something unique or unusual that you have used as a bookmark?

[Nanette]

I have used a clean tissue as a bookmark.

[Christine]

I collected thousands of bookmarks in my life.
If possible, I try to find something that goes with the theme of the book.
For Anne Morrow Lindbergh for instance I found a beautiful bookmark years ago at Barnes & Noble which contained sea shells and old airplanes.

Friends send me postcards from places that are novel locations like the beautiful isle of Sylt in Northern Germany at the North Sea.

I have a few novels which take place on Guernsey and Jersey (Channel Isles between England and France). We went there in 2014, so I got postcards for bookmarks.

One of my all-time favorite novels is "Pursuit of Happiness" by Douglas Kennedy which takes place from Thanksgiving 1945 until the 1990's. It takes place in Manhattan and at Popham Beach in Maine, so I found some old black & white postcards from the 1940's from Manhattan and lovely Popham Beach postcards when we went there on vacation. Now I have a beautiful bookmark in that 700+ pages hardcover book every 50 pages.

The velvety light blue box of Dolce e Gabbana Light Blue from my favorite body lotion is too precious to be thrown out, so I cut it into 4 bookmarks.

A few years ago Kleenex or some other tissue company had beautiful maritime photo motives with sail boats or with long boat piers on their tissue boxes. I cut those out and put them in those novels where the protagonists go sailing.

[Christine]

Nanette wrote: "I have used a clean tissue as a bookmark."

I've done that, too, when I was too lazy to go upstairs to my bookmarks collection.

[John]

Nanette wrote: "I have used a clean tissue as a bookmark."

lol....I appreciate that you specified "clean"

[Greta]

I have lots of bookmarks but I’ve also used a losing lottery ticket, paper clip, junk mail, dollar bill and other items over the years

[Diane]

A shoe lace has got to be mine...not unique or unusual I suppose, but for me it was!!!

[Michael]

A lab order from my doctor.

[Christine]

A Métro ticket from Paris.

[Nanette]

Michael wrote: "A lab order from my doctor."

I just did that with a test order lol

[Marie]

Receipts, mail, my faulty memory, piece of yarn. Funny thing is, I’m a librarian and I love to purchase bookmarks AND make them. But they disappear when I need them.

[Christine]

I have at least one bookmark (or more) in each of my 1.500+ books and still hundreds of bookmarks piled up in my night stand book case.

[Theresa (mysteries.and.mayhem)]

My favorite bookmark is an old Barry Bonds baseball card I found in a used book I bought at Half Price Books. I used to love the Pirates back in the late 80s, early 90s when he was on the team with Bobby Bonilla and Andy Van Slyke. ⚾❤

[Christine]

My favorite bookmark is a silvery blue Thank you card with 5 little white kittens which I intended to send to somebody, but forgot in the end. Now it's a bookmark in one of my favorite novels.