Keep the blue side up

28
Apr
First class travel from the couch to Jerusalem with Guy Delisle’s new graphic travelogue Jerusalem: Chronicles From the Holy City. Guy is a comic book artist who travels the world with his doctor wife, who is with Doctors Without Borders, and records what he sees and learns in clearly-lined, easy-to-read, witty comic book style. See also Pyongyang, Shenzhen, and The Burma Chronicles (my personal favorite book of 2010). And check out the trailer to an upcoming documentary about Guy here:http://exposureroom.com/members/seeker/887c7297e4504ada9ce1dff5d1ed1409/

First class travel from the couch to Jerusalem with Guy Delisle’s new graphic travelogue Jerusalem: Chronicles From the Holy City. Guy is a comic book artist who travels the world with his doctor wife, who is with Doctors Without Borders, and records what he sees and learns in clearly-lined, easy-to-read, witty comic book style. See also Pyongyang, Shenzhen, and The Burma Chronicles (my personal favorite book of 2010). And check out the trailer to an upcoming documentary about Guy here:
http://exposureroom.com/members/seeker/887c7297e4504ada9ce1dff5d1ed1409/

18
Mar
After I visit my dying mother in the nursing home (where she says she is a “regular”), I spend the rest of the day thinking about her life. She was a decorator, among other things. These are the books she used, on a bookcase in her empty bedroom, next to a photo of herself and her sister. What is going to happen to those books?

After I visit my dying mother in the nursing home (where she says she is a “regular”), I spend the rest of the day thinking about her life. She was a decorator, among other things. These are the books she used, on a bookcase in her empty bedroom, next to a photo of herself and her sister.

What is going to happen to those books?

26
Feb
I hate it when people give away the ending.

I hate it when people give away the ending.

16
Jan
I’m looking for a book to review for book club and my stepdaughter Lizzie is reading this one. I’ve had it on my Goodreads “to-read” list for a while, so I reacquainted myself with it through Amazon’s reviews. Sounds like something right up my alley—an American embarks on an around-the-world tour, starting with a short volunteer stint at an orphanage in Nepal; American falls in love with the “orphans” who aren’t really orphans; American returns again and again. I’m sold. Really, they had me with that cover already. I just hope it isn’t as boring as Three Cups of Tea, a book on a similar theme. Listening to the audio version of that book almost made me fall asleep at the wheel several times between Texarkana and Houston. Oh, the overuse of adjectives! (Hemingway would have said something really rude about all those adjectives.)

I’m looking for a book to review for book club and my stepdaughter Lizzie is reading this one. I’ve had it on my Goodreads “to-read” list for a while, so I reacquainted myself with it through Amazon’s reviews. Sounds like something right up my alley—an American embarks on an around-the-world tour, starting with a short volunteer stint at an orphanage in Nepal; American falls in love with the “orphans” who aren’t really orphans; American returns again and again. I’m sold. Really, they had me with that cover already.

I just hope it isn’t as boring as Three Cups of Tea, a book on a similar theme. Listening to the audio version of that book almost made me fall asleep at the wheel several times between Texarkana and Houston. Oh, the overuse of adjectives! (Hemingway would have said something really rude about all those adjectives.)

5
Nov
Two new books to read in bed—Crossed (the sequel to Matched), and Birds of Texas Field Guide (categorized by COLOR so you don’t have to know a crow from a magpie to use it!) I love new books.

Two new books to read in bed—Crossed (the sequel to Matched), and Birds of Texas Field Guide (categorized by COLOR so you don’t have to know a crow from a magpie to use it!)

I love new books.