Remember how, last month, I was all “I think this is one of the biggest piles of books I’ve ever had for Monthly Reads!”
Yeah. About that …
Book of the Month is John Gwynne’s Wrath.
Tag: photography
Unread Shelf: July 31, 2023
I bought a handful of books this month, and a few others showed up in other ways, but this looks manageable, doesn’t it? Sure.
Monthly Reads: June 2023
This probably isn’t literally the biggest stack of books I’ve ever posted for this series, but I bet it’s close. Book of the Month is My Government Means to Kill Me, by Rasheed Newson, but there’s a bunch of good stuff here.
Unread Shelf: June 30, 2023
We did some work this month. Several of those are new but I feel like the page count is still way lower than last time.
Give this man your money
Just another quick one today, but the link will be worth checking out. The Leeper Park Art Fair takes place in South Bend today or tomorrow, and one of the exhibitors is Josh Merrill, who was there last year as well, and who we specifically went looking for this year. He is a photographer and he does regular prints just like everyone else (we picked up a print of his “The Introvert” piece, if you go looking at the site) but what caught our attention is that he also does prints on metal.
I cannot properly represent to you how amazing this man’s work looks when printed on metal. The colors absolutely glow in a way that no .jpg on a website is going to show correctly. What I need you to understand is that most of his framed metal prints were going from around $1700-$2300 at the show, and he was selling them at that price, and I was doing my level damnedest to convince my wife to pick something up. I’m serious. I’d have dropped two grand on this guy’s work in a heartbeat, and I wouldn’t have felt bad about it at all afterwards. And now that I know that he sells his work straight from his website, I’m going to pick something and start legit setting money aside every paycheck for it.
His shop is here, and you need to take a few minutes and look around.
Monthly Reads: May 2023
See? I told you I was going to read more this month. Book of the Month is R.F. Kuang’s Yellowface, and it’s not close, and A Day of Fallen Night is teetering uncomfortably between “God, 500 more pages of this; DNF” and “I liked the first book a lot, let it play out.”
Unread Shelf: May 31, 2023
God, this is just not okay. Some of these books have been sitting on that shelf for five or six months! I’ve made progress this month, but God.
ID this bird
I think he’s a juvenile, which is messing with my ability to figure out what he is. A red-tail would be the most common kind but his tail is behind the fence and the beak doesn’t look right, plus he’s got that black line over his eyes.
Who knows birds?
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