Practicing my sketching. “Abundance is not what you have. It is how grateful you are for what you have.” and “Discomfort is a wise teacher.” At work I have less time so I can only do quick ones.
Practicing my sketching. “Maybe the journey isn’t about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that isn’t you so that you can be what you were meant to be in the first place.”
Practicing my sketching. “All I know is that my life is better when i assume that people are trying their best. It keeps me out of judgement and lets me focus on what’s is and not what should be.”
Gareth Brown clearly knows how to write books that I love. I love love loved his previous book so I was so excited to find out that he had a new one coming out. Magical books were awesome, magical objects turned out to be completely awesome, too. And I loved the references back to the first book in a way that was not disruptive to those who never read the first book but felt like an insider’s gift to those who did!
Like his first book, this story is full of imagination, joy, a true joy for your senses, especially visually. Of course all the good must be balanced by evil, so evil is there too. Some very interesting choices for evil in this book. All the characters are unique and jump off the page.
It is clear to me I will forever read anything Brown writes, I just hope he writes fast so I can keep reading more and more of his wonderful stories.
with gratitude to netgalley and William Morrow for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
