Reading Update The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Very good fantastical tale set in the late 19th and early 20th century – there are multiple, seemingly disconnected nonlinear story threads that slowly spiral together in quite unexpected (to me, at least!) ways.
“Ignoring you until you put that camera away, Mom!!!” -Mayhem
Reading Update Ex Libris: Stories of Libraries, Librarians, and Lore edited by Paula Guran. Excellent collection of short stories that’s exactly what it says on the tin. I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed an anthology this much. I did skip one story due to it having a serial killer sort of vibe, which is not my thing. And there’s one story with a librarian I suspect is based on or an homage to the angel Aziraphale from Good Omens, which pleased me greatly.
Reading Update The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book by Neil Gaiman. This brand new edition has all the deleted scenes included, which previous editions did not. It’s very confusing, trying to get the right edition!
“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Mayhem (very rumpled because previously she was sleeping upside down)
If you missed it Monday, things look a little different – my old theme was TOO old, so I’ve tried to stuff some of its bits into this generic WordPress template, with mixed success. (“You kids! Get off my lawn!” Oh wait, I don’t have a lawn…)
Nope, she’s not lashing her tail. It’s definitely swishing. She does it A LOT. Jeanne and I tell Mayhem that she has very confusing tail language, but she doesn’t care. LOL.
Reading Update The Collage Ideas Book by Alannah Moore. Very good look at many different ways to do collage using examples from collage artists. This is definitely an inspiration book rather than a how-to. Discovering Gluebooks: How to Stop Focusing on Products and Start Making More Art by Lisa Vollrath. Good overview, examples, and gluebook how-tos. (You make a gluebook by collaging things you already have, such as junk mail, magazines, glue sticks, etc. No special products or expertise required.)
“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos(he’s in the background, upper left)
Reading Update The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. Very good epistolary ya novel about Charlie, a high school freshmen who shares his life and thoughts with an unidentified person via one-sided correspondence throughout Charlie’s first year of high school. Powerful.
This is going to be an unorganized whirlwind linkity because I volunteered at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts Thursday (today as I’m writing this) and am quite tired now.
Reading Update Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit by Corita Kent & Jan Steward. One of the best books about creativity I’ve ever read, despite it looking as if it was produced on a photocopier in the 1980s. Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey. I’m still not sure how I feel about this one. The POV character is an unreliable narrator who admits she’s a liar right off the bat. She’s also a PI who’s hired to solve a suspicious death at a California boarding school for mages, where her estranged sister teaches. It definitely sucked me in, because I read it in one evening. But right now when I think about the book, it’s like there’s a very small pebble in my shoe – a small but persistent irritation.
*ignoring* -Chaos
“Oh, geez, how many pictures are you going to TAKE, Mom?!?” -Mayhem
Art journaling, reading, knitting, and cat parenting. It's a wild life.
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Very good fantastical tale set in the late 19th and early 20th century – there are multiple, seemingly disconnected nonlinear story threads that slowly spiral together in quite unexpected (to me, at least!) ways.
Ex Libris: Stories of Libraries, Librarians, and Lore
The Quite Nice and Fairly Accurate Good Omens Script Book
Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic
Project Collage: 50 Projects to Spark Your Creativity
The Collage Ideas Book
Discovering Gluebooks: How to Stop Focusing on Products and Start Making More Art
Big Mushy Happy Lump (Sarah’s Scribbles #2)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A Wrinkle in Time
Learning by Heart: Teachings to Free the Creative Spirit
Magic for Liars