Bye, Gems.

I doubt I'm going to update this blog again (as much as I love it).

There's still a lot to look at, though!

• Compilation posts - collections of images based on a theme (more on those here)
• Movie posts
• Gems of the Week posts - collections featuring all of the wonderful things I found on the internet during the course of a week
• Book posts

And if you want to check out the things I still update...

• twitter 
• pinterest 
• instagram 
• tumblr 
• my vintage book shop
• my three illustration-centric tumblrs (Illustrated Ladies / Illustrated Gents / The Zoo Keeper)
• my two colorful tumblrs (Wear Color / Colorful Homes)
• and the things I write for work (at BuzzFeed)

So long.

BOOKS - January / February / March

Books, books, books.

For more book greatness - here's the October/November/December post, September's, August, May, June and July, April and February and March. Or! Just click here to browse through everything under the "books" tag.

Here are all the books that came out (or that I discovered) in January and February and March; things I want to read and add to my library...

Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois by Amy Novesky and Isabelle Arsenault.

Make It Grow by Debbie Powell.

A Beginner's Guide to Bear Spotting by Michelle Robinson and David Roberts.

Pax by Sara Pennypacker and Jon Klassen.

The Extincts by Veronica Cossanteli and Roman Muradov.

The Sandwich Thief by Andre Marois and Patrick Doyon.

Arcadian Nights: The Greek Myths Reimagined by John Spurling.

Achoo! by Virginie Morgand.

Blanche Hates the Night by Sibylle Delacroix.

The Big Adventure of a Little Line by Serge Bloch.

The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee.

That's My Hat by Anouck Boisrobert and Louis Rigaud.

Navel Gazing: True Tales of Bodies, Mostly Mine (but also my mom's, which I know sounds weird) by Michael Ian Black.

The Great Journey by Agathe Demois and Vincent Godeau.

Girl Through Glass by Sari Wilson.

Isabel Feeney, Star Reporter by Beth Fantaskey.

Jane Austen: An Illustrated Biography by Zena Alkayat and Nina Cosford.

If I Had a Gryphon by Vikki VanSickle and Cale Atkinson.

The Lost Time Accidents by John Wray.

All Year Round by Susan B. Katz and Eiko Ojala.

Happy Doodles For Fun & Relaxation by Flora Chang.

Tokyo Digs A Garden by Jon-Erik Lappano and Kellen Hatanaka.

When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons by Julie Fogliano and Julie Morstad.

Shape Shift by Joyce Hesselberth.

Animal Alphabet by Kay Vincent.

Now for the books I read and enjoyed during the last few months (sadly there are not very many: I've been busy)...

Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart.

Hilda and the Midnight Giant, Hilda and the Troll, and Hilda and the Black Hound by Luke Pearson. 

Nimona by Noelle Stevenson and The Terrible Two by Jory John, Mac Barnett, and Kevin Cornell.

Taste: The Infographic Book of Food by Laura Rowe and Vicki Turner and Five Women Wearing the Same Dress by Alan Ball.

Gems of the Week

Robin Eisenberg.

Atelier Stella for West Elm.

Brigadoon.

Not gonna lie, I'm kind of into Michael Douglas in The China Syndrome.

MOVIES + TV + ACTORS + SUCH

Marvel firsts in Jessica Jones (and some more on the show here) / the Thanksgiving episodes of Bob's Burgers / "Real talk: Your friend shouldn't marry someone who won't watch Friday Night Lights. None of us should be marrying people who won't even give FNL a try." / Meet Your Second Wife is my favorite SNL sketch in years / the new age of celebrity stalkers / "to look bored while wearing neon paisley at a backyard barbecue is, somehow, delightfully sinister" / Grover > Elmo / binge-watching to get through hard times / Carter Burwell on some of his scores

ART & DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION THINGS

prints by Kate Miss

BOOKS / WRITING / THINGS OF THAT NATURE

on The Price of Salt and Carol (also: Frank Rich on Patricia Highsmith - "her own favorite animals were snails, which she smuggled through customs by hiding a half-dozen or so under each of her breasts")

ETC.

active shooter training / a wonderful interview with David Letterman (particularly the part about "not growing up" for his son's sake and making his son laugh) / "Everybody’s cool with women dating up, so long as the older person they’re dating is a man" / I'm actually not a big fan of bean boots, but I am a big fan of things that are handmade in Maine / The Case for Hamilton as Album of the Year (also - LOL) / Carly Rae Jepsen / Marnie / don't underestimate the pleasures of stuff / Hillary Clinton / LUSH's bath bomb factory / "Disney didn’t have to reimagine the princesses, it turned out. Girls had already done it themselves. The dolls had just never been marketed like that."