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What I've been reading, what I'm reading
Oct. 3rd, 2013 02:09 pmI'm still reading The Knife of Never Letting Go and to be honest, not loving it. I have to see how it ends, but I don't think I'll read the sequels. Meanwhile, I read some other things.
Big Questions, Anders Nilsen. I wasn't going to buy this because it was fairly expensive, even used, but I kept flipping through it and couldn't stop reading it, so I had to. Then it took me almost a year to read it.
It's a doorstop sized graphic novel drawn in the ligne claire (clear line) style I love. I liked it a lot but I can't explain what it's about. Some finches and their interactions; a pilot who crashes; the birds think he’s emerged from an egg and that they should feed him; a retarded boy whose grandmother dies, leaving him to wander; a finch who is taken under the earth by a serpent.
Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See, Francois Mouly. The stories behind New Yorker covers that did or did-n't make the final cut, for various reasons. En-joyable but not terrific. I probably shouldn’t have bought this and am not sure if I’ll keep it.
The Polaroid Book: Selections from the Polaroid Collections of Photography, Steve Crist. Photos from the collection, covering a wide variety of subjects and techniques. Some abstract, some manipulated. We used to do that in the 80s - I wonder where those photos are now? Somewhere in my garage.
After I finish Knife I think I'm going to read a biography of Tony Perkins.
Big Questions, Anders Nilsen. I wasn't going to buy this because it was fairly expensive, even used, but I kept flipping through it and couldn't stop reading it, so I had to. Then it took me almost a year to read it.
It's a doorstop sized graphic novel drawn in the ligne claire (clear line) style I love. I liked it a lot but I can't explain what it's about. Some finches and their interactions; a pilot who crashes; the birds think he’s emerged from an egg and that they should feed him; a retarded boy whose grandmother dies, leaving him to wander; a finch who is taken under the earth by a serpent.
Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See, Francois Mouly. The stories behind New Yorker covers that did or did-n't make the final cut, for various reasons. En-joyable but not terrific. I probably shouldn’t have bought this and am not sure if I’ll keep it.
The Polaroid Book: Selections from the Polaroid Collections of Photography, Steve Crist. Photos from the collection, covering a wide variety of subjects and techniques. Some abstract, some manipulated. We used to do that in the 80s - I wonder where those photos are now? Somewhere in my garage.
After I finish Knife I think I'm going to read a biography of Tony Perkins.
