Cannonball Read 18

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Obsession: Not the hot new perfume

Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Hell Screen: The Manga Edition (Tuttle Japanese Classics in Manga) by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Mihiro

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Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s Hell Screen: The Manga Edition (Tuttle Japanese Classics in Manga) by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and Mihiro (adapter) is very literary. Being just enough spooky to not be “safe for work” but not necessarily over the top, but it is mature. And I cannot tell you what I feel about the story because W T F?????????????????  It is torture porn (but you know, done nicely). It is the madness of a man who has greatness and those around him who want and envy it. It […]

Vaccination Against Consumerism Pt 2.

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

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cbr18bingo: wealth (“Oil painting, before it was anything else, was a celebration of private property.”) If you are the kind of person who would enjoy reading a historical oil painting to filth; if you would like to understand why art museums are “like that”; if you have always been slightly confused by the (financial) system of worship so easily observed in art galleries around the world: Ways of Seeing is the book for you. Or, perhaps, this is the 4-part BBC miniseries for you. The miniseries memorably […]

Little Fish, Big Pond/Country Mouse-City Mouse

Little Fish: A Memoir from a Different Kind of Year by Ramsey Beyer.

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I enjoyed the graphic novel Little Fish: A Memoir from a Different Kind of Year by Ramsey Beyer. The story was fairly familiar, but at the time it would have been a newer story as I think coming of age and graphic novels were just finding their place in the genre of young adult. The way Beyer made the book is clever and even now would be considered fresh. I am curious to find more works by them. Plus, I have questions I need answered […]

Art…. there is a reason it rhymes with a bodily function, but not for Jo van Gogh!

Light, Letters, and Love: How Jo van Gogh Saved Vincent's Paintings for the World by Donna Cangelosi and Elisa Paganelli

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I appreciate art, even if I do not partially understand or like it. And honestly, Vincent van Gogh is one of those artists that I can appreciate, but I’m just not a fan. I never “got him” or why he is considered great. The Sunflowers? Yeah that’s a nope for me. But thankfully for those of you who are fans, his sister-in-law, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, was a fan who not only understood his work, she kept them even after his death. Even after others told […]

I’m boxed

Boxed In by Sarah Lynne Reul

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If you are an artist in any way (poetry, painting, sculpture, etc) you probably have had some form of “artist anxiety” (or what I call it). What Sarah Lynne Reul calls it in Boxed In (which honestly is a bit better). Our story follows a young girl who does not want to use her new paint set because what if she makes a mistake? New things deserve perfection.  And she fears making mistakes. Due late February 2027, Reul explores this other kind of “artist block” […]

It is more than Gangnam Style or Demon Hunters

The Discovery of K-pop: The Asian Hall of Fame by Oliver Chin, Juan Calle and Phil Amara

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If loving K-Pop music is wrong, I know a lot of people who are very openly wrong. I mean, I know of a woman who is a grandmother of an early teen, who is a BTS fan. I mean fan girl fan level. But hey, I was a New Kids on the Block Fan so who am I to judge? We all have our boy band(s) to love regardless of the decades behind our years. However, what I know about K-Pop can fit on a […]



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