I need more hours in the day. August hit and I kept buying books like I was reading one every day or two and that is not what I am doing any longer.
Help.
Tag: photography
Monthly Reads: July 2024
This is not a joke. I did nothing, nothing but read in July. It was glorious.
Book of the Month is Mornings in Jenin, with This is Why They Hate Us, How to Say Babylon and Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography as real close runners-up.
Unread Shelf: July 31, 2024
Tomorrow’s pile of books has a good chance of being the most ludicrous pile I’ve ever posted; most of these books were not here last time I did this. I did nothing but read in July.
Sunday night kitty
Gideon says hello.
Monthly Reads: June 2024
I told you it was a big month.
Book of the Month is Godsgrave, by Jay Kristoff. But … damn, this was a good month.
Unread Shelf: June 30, 2024
You’ll notice two things about this image: first, that none of these books were on the shelf last month, and second, that I have obviously dropped my “don’t buy new books unless they’re part of a series I already have” rule entirely as of June. Also, there are three different books on the shelf with the word “bone” in them, which entertains me quite a lot.
The Monthly Reads pile tomorrow is going to be staggering.
Taking tonight off
… have a cat picture.
Terrible pictures of beautiful pictures
The Leeper Park Art Fair was this weekend, and I’ve been waiting a literal year to go buy something printed on metal from Josh Merrill, and we went and did that this morning. And, damn it, this looks gorgeous in person, and I was excited enough about it that I got it hung the same day we bought it, which qualifies as a minor miracle. So naturally now, because I’m a schmuck, looking at my picture of it all I can see is that damn smoke alarm and that it looks too small over the couch.
In person, not the case. That’s a 20″ x 40″ print, and in person it doesn’t look that small. Also, and in general, prints on metal don’t seem to photograph well; the colors glow in a way that I find completely entrancing in person, and I love this piece. That said, instead of fighting with glare and such to take another picture from my phone, here’s the piece, entitled “New Day,” taken from his website:
In case you didn’t click on the link, that picture is taken inside of an ice cave somewhere in northern Minnesota and it was seventeen below zero outside at the time. Josh is a lunatic, y’all.