Bookish Discussion #7 Check out this week’s reads. I thought I...

Bookish Discussion #7

Check out this week’s reads. I thought I had a very light on week, but it was actually ok

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Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Creation Myths, Volume 1

Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Creation Myths, Volume 1 by Brian Holguin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Damn it now I have to buy the next one!

This was amazing. Really takes you back into the world of The Dark Crystal. I love the characters created by Brian Froud/Jim Henson and Brian Holguin really gives them a new dimension.
I was worried that is would look to cartoony but the way they have designed the speech "bubbles" to be jagged actually added something rather than detracted.
Loved it!


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April Book Photo Challenge Day 8 Nostalgic

I have quite a few of these books that I used to look at a lot as a really little kid. The second picture here is the key to why I did that.

I had/have a bit of a thing for books that have dust covers when the hard cover underneath has something different on it to the dust cover. Its like a secret world only you know about, or so I thought when I was little. I still, to this day check under dust covers to find hidden pictures but they are few and far between. 

This particualar book is one of my favorites. It Faeries illustrated by Brian Froud. Never actually read it (it is not a story book but and art book with anotations) but the pictures are so familar that they are like old familiar friends.

Day 4. Book Photo Challenge: First Book I Ever Loved

This is more of a representation of the first books I loved to get off the shelf as a child and look through. I have a couple of different series of Faeries and Elves and Dragons and things (my favorites are by Brian Froud).

Several reasons I love these. They have dust covers so i loved taking them off and seeing the embossed lettering and illustration underneath. I was always so excited when the pictures underneath the dust cover were completely different from the cover itself. Secondly, when flicking through these books for the photo challenge I realised  this was the reason I still attempt to draw. I copied so many of the drawing in these books, with hope of one day being as good as Brian Froud