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Books Are Like Ships
“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea.” - Roald Dahl
Currently reading
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Winter's Tale
Cleopatra: A Life
Attention All Passengers: The Airlines' Dangerous Descent---and How to Reclaim Our Skies
Peril at End House: A Hercule Poirot Mystery (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
Consider the Fork: How Technology Transforms the Way We Cook and Eat
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71/279 pages
Cloud Atlas
Stories That Jump Off The Page: See Stunning Art Made From Books
They stalk books with X-Acto knives, tiny sandblasters, glue, paint, scissor, and a shared obsession for giving new form to old things. The resulting sculptures, as pictured in the upcoming Art Made From Books: Altered, Sculpted, Carved and Transformed (Chronicle Books), extend the shelf life for phone books, encyclopedias, pulp fiction and fairy tales. Instead of winding up in the landfill, ink-on-paper artifacts can now be rejiggered as astonishing text objects that have nothing to do with words.
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