Mark
Wonderful read about the amazing world of birds. Lives up to the blurbs. Maybe not for a the deep bird enthusiast but great for a beginner.
Stark black and white photographs of residences, commercial interests, and government buildings tell a fascinating and evolving story of post-war but pre "Cool Britannia" London's architecture. Like it or not these buildings are part of that story and this book documents many to great effect. This book also matters because these buildings are at risk of destruction because of disuse, decay, and at times, absolute hostility.
As advertised: A loose, cartoony departure from Tomine’s previous work, Scenes from an Impending Marriage is a sweet-natured, laugh out-loud skewering of the modern marriage process..." As always his art is excellent.
Frank and emotionally honest story of a man who has become one grand old men of our age, but it has been a circuitous route and it is clear that he has had unlearn so many of his early survival skills and overcome many a childhood trauma to become what we know now, a man who so much more than his past. There is real depth to this man and I am glad to have read this.
Story was engaging, not brilliant. Worth a library checkout for sure. Art is fantastic, very painterly.
Setting: Gas giant in space, after humans destroyed earth. University town.
Language: a bit formal and the use of some obscure words, mostly to have fun so not too hard.
Story: It is a cozy yes, but it has murder and a bit of mayhem. Also a love story, a good one but it is a bit secondary?
Character: Holmes and Watson but this time, they are women and in love.
Setting: Contemporary England
Language: Straightforward word choices and enjoyable banter.
Characters: Most of the same crew appears with a new addition, Bob.
Story: Aside from the very enjoyable characters this is what you are here for. Drugs, antiques, murder most foul, and then some very poignant discussions of loneliness, aging, and dementia. Really these last three have Osman maybe doing his best writing yet?
I enjoy the protagonists, the setting, and the complexity of the plogt. Janes' writing style is so hard to follow. Jumping form character to character and place to place. Almost breathlessly and as if chunks of the book were hacked away? Can't give it more than three stars.
A beautiful and highly personal exploration of the theme of Degenerate Art, yeah that Degenerate art. This is no criticism but it is as much a catalog as a book. Great stuff.
Detailed, thought provoking, comprehensive of the artist's life and well, magnificent. Highly recommended.
Explores a fascinating alternate earth with characters that you may or may not like but are always intriguing. Storytelling was good until the quarter of the novel where in the race to wrap up it got a bit confusing and the all the story lines wrapped up so quickly that it felt rushed.
Good continuation of the series. More of spy-thriller than the previous installment. Looking forward to the third part, recommendation enough in my book.
Dark dark dark. Dark art, dark story and well just dark. Excellent story - complex and heartbreaking. Neo-Noir indeed.
As an attempt to reinvent the American Road/Man discovers Meaning book it is a clever idea - pictures matched with explanatory text. Dipping in and out as the mood strikes. Good photographs and his journey is interesting, if a bit predictable (sorry Mr. Reeves but I have heard much of this before.) Still, worth a look.
So much goodness. Explanations of so many different types of walking - hiking, mountaineering, rambling, strolling, rural, urban and so on. A lot ground covered. The author is clearly a feminist and politically left of center but these biases are well managed by the author - they provide a framework for the analysis, not a bludgeon. Worth the read.
Such a strange man Mr. Tarkovsky. This book brings out so many of the apparent contradictions or complications, whatever you want to call them. Any road, this also documents that he was capable of creating truly stunning cinema - I don't always like his work but I am always impressed.
For me this was goofy fun. Not too serious at all and at times that is very appreciated.
Enjoyable primer to the very very very weird world of Quantum Physics. Not a physicist myself so I clarity was paramount to me and it is well written with enough explanation to keep moving without bogging down. My science background is some mid 80's university level chemistry and with that I followed the bulk the science. Recommended
Now there is this other bit and it is minimal but I have to speak to it. Listening to the few tales of established academics behaving very boorishly to rising/aspiring students is discouraging and paints some of the giants of the field in a poor light.