Six Bookmarks

In homage to par3182's addictive bite-sized blog Six Things, here are six things I'm using as bookmarks in current reads.

1. A strip of black film leader, to mark Clea, the final book in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet.

2. A latex-free sterile adhesive bandage, complete with sterile packaging, to mark H.M.S. Surprise, the third book in Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander series.

3. The lid from a cardboard box of bandages (possibly the same box #2 came from), to mark Semiotics: The Basics by Daniel Chandler.

4. A seven-frame chunk of the trailer for Alien: Resurrection, to mark Steve Niles and Elman Brown's graphic novelization of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend, which happens to be the greatest vampire novel ever written.

5. A receipt, dated December 12, 2005 (my older sister's birthday), for a breakfast sandwich from Au Bon Pain, to mark Movie Love in the Fifties by James Harvey. It's only on page 4, but I don't remember what he's said so far, so I think I'll have to restart this one.

6. The cardboard insert from a package of Schick Xtreme3 razors, to mark A Short Guide to Writing about Film by Timothy Corrigan (I figured I'd see how I was doing).