5 Things I Consumed Last Week (treasures from my bookshelf)
on figuring, poems, dinos, in love, brain damage and some more links
Hello Nello!
Your weekend writer has recovered and is ready to shoot out a long list of recommendations. I spent the day revisiting some books that I absoultely adore from by bookshelf today and thought I should share it with y’all as well.
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Figuring by Maria Popova
Figuring, in its bright and happy yellow cover and in an awe-inspiring read of 500 pages. The book focuses mainly on female stories, is about the lives of some remarkable women — all undaunted thinkers — who overcame immense obstacles in their time to make astronomical discoveries, to write poetry and paint pictures.
(loved her On Being podcast as well)
Popova's distinctive practice of creating linkages, adjacencies, and intersections among disparate individuals and ideas is unparalleled.
We are thrust into a waltz of exquisitely honed minds — many of them sexually queer — all insisting on living to their fullest transpiring to 'figure' out meaning in one way or the other.
Poems to Live Your Life By | Chris Ridell
I got this book in 2021 when I went on a spree to read more poetry in life. My first acquaintance with Chris Ridell was through his illustrations in Art Matters (which is my go-to book for gifting). A few link hops and I found myself stuck on this book.
(Does this poem remind you of something? - check it out)
It contains more than 50 most famous poems - all of them illustrated beautifully. Just the perfect combination for something to read at night.
In Love & Pajamas: A Collection of Comics about Being Yourself Together | Catana Comics
It's sweet, non-pretentious, relatable, funny, and genuinely romantic. If you follow them on Instagram, you know who they are. If you don’t - it is a cutesy illustration page on a couple and cute incidents from their life, which by the way are highly relatable.
Highly recommended for all the couples out there and for people who like slice-of-life comics, for a trusty source of smiles, for more of Catana’s established comic style, for anyone who’s been in a long-term relationship and is familiar with the feeling of settling in.
Dinosaur Therapy | James Stewart and K Roméy
Dinosaur therapy is a satirical comic book that portrays the complexities of life with tact and humor. The illustrations are beyond beautiful, and hilarious yet eye-opening one-liners always leave me speechless.
Everyday world can be a pretty ruthless and exhausting place. Just a little bit of compassion and understanding can go a long way. Dinosaur therapy is one such book that needs to secure a place on everyone’s shelf. It is candid, lucid, and captivating.
Pink Floyd All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track | Jean-Michel Guesdon, Philippe Margotin
If you are a Pink Floyd fan, you cannot get anything better than this as a souvenir (okay maybe ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ vinyl as well).
It's exactly what the title says: there's a little bit of biographical info—but not too much—and it goes into the writing process, production, instruments used, engineers, composition history, the recording history, and then a musical and lyrical analysis, with some trivia thrown in as well. It does that for each and every officially released song. An absolute goldmine.
This is the possibly the fattest book on my shelf right now. (was such a struggle to lift it up for the picture)
I read the a few chapters on Dark Side of the Moon album, absoultely loved the details on Brain Damage, Eclipse and Us and Them.
In other news
I finished watching this.
I also finished reading this.
I am starting to watch this.
I absoultely loved reading this comic.
and I scrolled this newsletter the most.
Back to to-do lists now.
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