My son just read Moby-Dick this year & loved it! It was so gratifying.
It's daunting in size & scope but I think of it as a bookshelf-full of books in one. Poetry, adventure, history, biology, psychology, travel... in fact I wanted to choose it for my book club this year but everyone groaned so much when I suggested it, I gave up. :-(
Etegami (e= "picture"; tegami= "letter/message") are simple drawings accompanied by a few apt words. They are usually done on postcards so that they can be easily mailed off to one's friends. Though etegami has few hard-and-fast rules, traditional tools and materials include writing brushes, sumi ink, blocks of water-soluble, mineral-based pigments called gansai, and washi postcards that have varying degrees of "bleed." They often depict some ordinary item from everyday life, especially items that bring a particular season to mind.
Ahhhhh! Margie
ReplyDeleteI love that second quote. This also reminds me that I want to re-read Moby Dick.
ReplyDeleteMy son just read Moby-Dick this year & loved it! It was so gratifying.
ReplyDeleteIt's daunting in size & scope but I think of it as a bookshelf-full of books in one. Poetry, adventure, history, biology, psychology, travel... in fact I wanted to choose it for my book club this year but everyone groaned so much when I suggested it, I gave up. :-(
I love the second one especially; I am a fan of imaginary worlds! :)
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