As you are surely aware at this point (because I haven’t stopped talking about it for almost a month), my thesis project required me to write, design, and hand-make a book. It’s been quite a learning process, but I’m mostly done, with 30 copies just waiting to be hauled to the reading this Friday.

I plan on sharing the “making of” the book in a later post, but for now, The Mockingbird’s Song by the numbers:

• 3 years of writing
• 39 poems
• 30 copies (in a run that I may extend to 40, depending on interest)
• 15 pads of 14×7 drawing paper cut into 600 pages
• 3 pots of glue
• 10 brushes totally destroyed
• 1,440 inches of linen thread
• 1 handpainted water color egg

More photos of the book can be found on my flickr site.

It’s for The Collected Works of T.S. Spivet, a book by Reif Larsen (his first novel, in fact). Now, I have yet to see the book in person (but it’s in the mail as we speak), but this website seems perfectly suited to it. The novel is about a 12-year-old genius cartographer who sets off on a cross-country journey, mapping and diagraming every step along the way.

Anyway, the website is a delight to explore and I recommend it. Once the book arrives and I’ve had a chance to read it, I’ll tell you what I think of that.
Has anyone else come across super nifty websites like this one?