4 posts tagged “books”
Book: 7
Author: Richard Bach
Pages: 127 (haha, I'm cheating with a skinny book)
This is a fantastic little story about a young seagull who dared to break away from the norm and find a higher purpose to life. Where other seagulls live to eat and flight is merely a way to get to the food, Jonathan lives to fly, pushing the boundaries of what is possible. It's a story about living a dream, finding a higher purpose, living for the joy of flight, freedom, and transcendence.
I had first picked up this book when I was probably around 12 and it stuck with me. I decided to pick it up the other day after running across the Neil Diamond soundtrack to the movie (Mom and I going through her record collection). I wasn't going to count this one originally since I read it in a morning and its few pages are interspersed with quite a few seagull photos but I'm falling behind and it really is a great book, so I'm counting it as my number 7.
Book count: 6
Title: Understanding Comics : The Invisible Art
Author: Scott McCloud
I found this book absolutely fascinating. It was so much more than I expected it to be. My husband had picked it up at the library (bit of a comic geek and is working on writing one right now) and suggested I read it. Scott McCloud really dives into the depths of comics; their history, future, story, art, development, their place in both western and eastern culture, their place in the art world, and a lot more. The best part is that he does it as a comic book! Honestly, if you have any interest in comics, whether it be as a reader of comics (books, strips, manga, any kind), an artist, or a writer, then I would wholeheartedly recommend this book. If you are a creator of comics (or wish to be!) then this would be a great reference book to pair up with Will Eisner's "Comics & Sequential Art" in your library.
I would definitely recommend this series.
The Old Kingdom, a world of Charter Magic where the dead walk, borders on Ancelstierre, a land very like our own (similar to maybe WW1 era?). They are separated by the Wall and guarded by soldiers that carry swords along with their regulation guns and wear chainmail over their khakis. Sabriel, an Ancelstierran schoolgirl, sets out to find and hopefully save her father Abhorsen, a necromancer who binds the dead back into death rather than raise it into life. Armed with a necromancer's seven bells and her father's sword she sets off into the Old Kingdom she can barely remember from when she was small.
(So I guess this would be books 3,4, and 5 for me...I'm behind...)
So, I'd really like to do this 50 books in 365 days, but I feel like I'm severely lagging behind. I've only finished two so far and February is almost done. The main reason I think I'm lagging is I'm currently reading:
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