These are the best.
My fiance made this amazing little book as my anniversary present. Inside are a bunch of cute reasons with equally cute drawings. Here’s one of my favourites.
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“Ah, a question of identity. Who would you be if you didn’t know who you are? How do you put a name to your soul? Your essential spirit?”
“Don’t look at me, my parents named me Cameron after some actor they liked.”
“Exactly. You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really, it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real.”
“And what’s that?”
“I don’t know,” he says, sounding weary.
"Going Bovine by Libba Bray
“Noun is a playful artist’s book about words and their definitions. It is like an exquisite corpse with words.
Starting with 27 real English words, each word and its definition has been divided into two parts. By turning the pages, you get to mix and match the word halves to create humorous and nonsensical new words and meanings.
With over 700 different combinations, this book is the perfect item for bibiophiles, lexicographers, writers, and any lover of words.
Here are a few examples of words and definitions you can put together:
whisper + umbrella = whisbrella: A low sibilan utterance for sheltering one from rain and sun.
banana + onomatopoeia = bananpoeia: A large herbaceous perennial tropical plant that bears fruit imitating the sound of the thing or action signified.
muffin + tyrant = muffrant: A quick bread made of batter unrestrained by law or constitution.
nomenclature + ancestry = nomencestry: A system or set of names for things derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors.”
i would really love to have this book.
