I rejected a lot of quotes before selecting this one. Because I think it sums up my experience over the last 19 months.
(Now if only there was a PS about appreciating your own mother, it would be perfect!)
Happy Mother’s Day!
Category: Typography
I’m still reading…but honestly a little bit ready to get through Anne’s House of Dreams so I can get back into “real” reading.
In the meantime, I’m still having fun with this typography thing. Although I might be delving too deeply into various background patterns. It’s starting to look like something that might be found on a Geocities website circa 2001, with glittery rain falling and roses waving back and forth. I’ll scale it back for the next one.
I read Anne of Green Gables in middle school, but I never got around to reading any of the sequels. About two years ago, I found sequels 2 through 5 at a used bookstore for $2 each, so I bought them, but then just stashed them on the shelf. (It wasn’t the first time.) Apparently there is at least one more that I should track down.
So I’m currently reading my way through the first 5 books (I did start at the beginning with Green Gables), which is just delightful. Gilbert Blythe, I’m pleased to report, is just as much of a hottie as certain of my friends have always maintained. Anne and Gilbert getting together, although obvious from the beginning, is a welcome payoff in Anne of the Island (#3).
This quote came from a letter Anne’s mother wrote to her husband, about Anne as a baby. (Obviously I changed the pronouns.) (The font is called Dark Roast; the arrangement is mine.)
From that same book, there’s another quote, longer and more complex, which I’m hoping to tackle next.
The Cameraphone Diaries 