Bookends

In my quest to familiarise myself with our stock I found vinyl bookends, they may not technically be literary related but I have fallen in love with them! As someone who loves vinyl records, has a record player and actually listens to records this makes me smile! And no I am not particularly old!

I love the idea that old abandoned vinyl LPs have been given a new purpose in life and it’s to prop up the other love in my life, books. I passionately loath those ugly metal monstrosities that you usually find caressing bookends. Now I can have something funky, unusual and far more attractive stopping my beloved books falling to the floor.

Looking through the bookends I thought that they would all be the unpopular records, I found one by the 'Choir of the Russian Church of the Metropolitan of Paris' sung in Russian, recorded in Britain! Personally I have never heard of them, but I am sure they were popular at the time. However, the classics of Nat King Cole and Elvis are also in our collection of recycled vinyl's which I have to admit was a tad shocking. I know that everyone has iPods and download music now, but a few years ago vinyl made a retro comeback and it suddenly became cool again. Maybe the cool kids don't listen to Elvis. Ironically, HMV still sell vinyl records of modern bands, they don't sound the same as the really old vinyls that have that authentic 'recorded in my garage' sound, but who knows maybe in a few years Rihanna and Justin Bieber's vinyl records will be recycled into quirky bookends?!