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Lettering: I pulled this beautiful poem from @lizelayne side by side day two. What a gift this class is. What a gift Mary Oliver is. What a joy lettering and watercoloring is. So grateful for art.
#art #lettering #sidebyside #lizlamoreux #loveyourimperfectletters #artjournal #journaling #poetry #maryoliver #watercolor #gouache 
Sketching: here’s last night’s house. Here’s what I am learning so far: For me, drawing can be long and tedious and it’s hard. So the best way to get better at it is to slow down and give myself grace and find the joy in the process. When I find myself wanting to be done, I find I am rushing and then the outcome is not to my liking and then I feel defeated and discouraged. So for me it’s better to pick topics that I like and really allow myself to slow down and enjoy the process and start with houses that feel joyful to tackle.
#art #sketching #drawingsketch #drawing #draw #houses #pendrawing #sketchbook 
Making: I started the side by side class with @lizelayne this morning. If you’re not taking it, you’re missing out. Today’s topic was curiosity and I love love loved this invitation to replace judgement with curiosity.
Can’t wait to dive deeper into this course and use it for practicing my lettering and my journaling. #art #lettering #lizlamoreux #sidebyside #watercolor #gouache #primrosia #primrosiajournal #loveyourimperfectletters 
Reading: The Heart of it All by Christian Kiefer just started but excited to read this one.
#random #read #reading #book #arc #edelweiss 
Sketching: tried a house too, a little paint from the right side page but I don’t mind, it’s a journal. But I love the way it took to the sketch too. Loving this journal so far.
Bought another one to use for fodder school. #art #sketching #sketch #house #houses #drawingsketch #drawing #draw #pendrawing 
Watercoloring: still testing my new journal, really love how it takes color and water so far.
#art #watercolorlandscape #watercolor #watercolorpainting #landscapes #seascape #paint 
Making: here’s day number 11 in #fodderchallenge2023 I made this inside my #willajournal and loved making it.
One more left! #art #fodderschool #fodderchallenge #collage #watercolor #lettering
I am finally calling it. I am very sad to say that this book will be a DNF for me at 41%. I tried it five different times across several months and I just could never get into the story. It’s not just that there are a lot of characters, it’s also that their voice isn’t different enough to keep the story interesting. It’s also that I couldn’t get myself to care about any of the characters and that’s tough for a character-driven story. I love and adore Acevedo and I will still read anything she writes no matter what. I am sure I will be in the minority on this one so if you’ve loved Acevedo and her work as much as I have I still recommend you give this a try because it’s full of her beautiful, poetic writing. with gratitude to netgalley and Ecco for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
A sweet and quick book about a woman who goes on a journey with the ex-lover of her recently deceased grandmother and his grandson. And of course it’s a love story so I expect you can guess what happens between her and the grandson who is her rival from high school.
“Life can be long or short, it is impossible to know, but every once in a while an entire life is spent in one night, the night when the windows are open and you can hear the last of the crickets’ call, when there is a chill in the air and the stars are bright, when nothing else matters, when a single kiss lasts longer than a lifetime, when you do not think about the future or the past, or whether or not you are walking through a dream rather than the real world, when everything you have always wanted and everything you are fated to mourn forever are tied together with black thread and then sewn with your own hand, when in the morning, as you wake and see the mountain in the distance, you will understand that whether or not you’ve made a mistake, whether or not you will lose all that you have, this is what it means to be human.” This is a really unusual book. It starts with Ivy who gets pregnant as a teenager by a college kid who is not interested in having anything to do with her. She then joins a commune that’s more like a cult and has her kid. The story then shifts to the kid who ends up growing up and running away partly as a result of reading The Scarlet Letter. “Ivy had begun to think that life was made up of a series of accidents and drastic errors. The unexpected became the expected, you made the right turn or the wrong turn, and all of it added up to the path you were on.” I don’t want to give away spoilers but there is some suspension of realism here around what happens next. This book is about the magic of books and stories and how they can save people. (And sometimes even the writer himself.) It’s also about motherhood and about cults, and about libraries. “It was a perfect night, a heavenly night, a night that could convince you that miracles were possible, if you still had faith, if you loved one person above all others, if you told yourself you hadn’t made a terrible mistake.” I love reading Alice Hoffman’s writing. Even though this one was slower for me than some of her previous ones, I still loved reading it. with gratitude to edelweiss and atria books for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
Wow this one was a struggle to get through. I work in big tech and I live in Silicon Valley so this book was close to home, maybe a bit too close to home. I think the success or failure of this book will lie with how relatable you will find the main character and for me, her choices were too difficult to relate to. It felt like her life was terrible and tough from every angle and she was making choices that made it harder and harder on her. I loved the image of the black hole and I loved both the visual and the visceral way one could feel that. I still didn’t connect with this book the way many seem to have.
I really liked this thriller that was fast-paced and interesting. for a plot-driven story, it had some interesting character development and i didn’t predict the twists and turns. If you’re looking for a solid thriller, this is a good one to pick up. |
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