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Art Section - SLC, Library. Utah.
No photoshop or fixes.
camera: nikkormat FT-N circa 1967
Lens: Nikkor f/3.5 43-86mm
Film: Expired Fuji 200 from some time in 1980
A city of books! Everywhere! Even the catacombs are filled with book crannies. You'll love it I know.
The welcoming notecard reads: We welcome you to the Empire of Dreaming Books, our creation in honor of an amazing Zamonia book series by Walter Moers. Wander here in the city of Buchhaim, or explore the vast system of catacombs.
To visit the tunnels, enter the main house at the landing point, and you will find a teleporter over the trapdoor.
Actually, catnip is delicious, which is what PJ Harvey was licking in this moment (there are bits of catnip all around here, too)
I am a big fan of the old vintage feeling of cracking open a good book but I did donate a lot of my old books and I am buying most books on Kindle with the exception of graphic novels, which really don't translate well to that format in my experience. Graphic novels are what I read in the bathtub at the end of a long day, ether sipping sake or Japanese whiskey and with lots and lots of bubbles around me. If that sounds decadent, it is because it absolutely is. But, I have chronic muscle cramps, anxiety, and depression and this is my personal therapy.
So, on to the book recommendations by my stack from yesterday's photos separated into two parts. I bought these books primarily at Quimby's in Chicago, a comic book store that I am worried about now that it is closed because of the citywide mandate for quarantine and "shelter in place." Bookstores are not considered an essential business to stay open at this time and, truthfully, I also wouldn't want to risk the lives of the workers, but I do personally view books as essential just as I view the book loving geeks who enjoy reading them.
The Drifting Classroom by Kazuo Umezz is about a school that disappears into some time into the future. The communication between time zones is nearly impossible except for our protagonist hero being able to scream through time and connect with his mother occasionally.
The first Volume is really mainly centered on the way the adults and children handle this crisis and the psychological and physical violence that results as well as typical things like food and water scarcity and then a giant bug monster, which comes about at the end.
The second Volume is more about stopping nightmares that come to life. bizarre mushrooms that start growing on everything, and a plague that separates the children even more. The children are exploring this new desert land and trying to find anything sustainable and they end up finding other surprises.
www.viz.com/drifting-classroom
I've also been reading quite a bit of Junji Ito's graphic novels lately. I'm in the middle of Tomie right now, which I have mixed feelings about. I love the concept of a woman who never dies even when she is brutally murdered by men over and over again. What is difficult for me to read is the fact that she obsesses about men not worth her while and gets very jealous of other girls. Seems like she could be using her time after regenerating all over again a lot better.
The novel by Ito that I liked even better was Uzumaki because I really get into psychological dramas where the enemy is actually a force of nature..in this case spirals that consume everything in this small Japanese town from the wavelengths in the area to people's biological physical spaces (semicircular canals, fingerprints). This one is well worth reading and one I will likely re-read quite a few times.
Also worth a read is No Longer Human which is an adaptation of the same novel by Osamu Dazai. This is at least somewhat based on the author's life and his own psychological distress (Dazai's) and is really frightening in the sense of human choices and the portrayal of a man without a conscience and the way he treats others, especially women.
www.comicsbeat.com/review-no-longer-human-junji-ito/
On more of a fun side is Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu. This is the very slim graphic novel on top and, although it is still a manga that features some bits of horror, it is far more tongue and cheek and shows how Ito adapts to his wife's cats and slowly becomes a tried and true cat lover (it is autobiographical)
junjiitomanga.fandom.com/wiki/Ito_Junji%E2%80%99s_Cat_Diary
Last but certainly not least, if I ever feel that Japanese horror is just too intense for that particular day, there is a really beautiful and transfixing graphic novel here called Cats of the Louvre by Taiyo Matsumoto
This looks a little cutesy at first but it is really deep and introspective about a child and a cat that gets lost in a painting and about the cats that secretly live in Le Louvre and their caretaker. There is a lot of great cat personalities as well as that of a spider. Highly recommended!
www.viz.com/cats-of-the-louvre
So how about you? What are you reading during this pandemic?
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"Books can take you into wonderful worlds"
My first idea for the "Smile on Saturday" theme "One Word" (22.02.2020).
Unfortunately, I didn't consider that the book titles also have words ...
Cuesta de Moyano, Madrid
The Cuesta de Moyano hill is a famous pedestrian avenue which is the site of Madrid's permanent book fair, with around 30 wooden stalls primarily dedicated to the purchase and sale of second-hand books.
I have a lot of books in my house, this is a shelf of assorted titles.
This photograph comes to you by courtesy of the letter B, my second picture for the February Alphabet Fun: 2025 group.