August Blue by Deborah Levy
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
3.5 stars
Beautifully written. Some musings about who we are, how we become who we are, and thinking about the lives we didn’t live. Short but profound and beautiful.
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For some reason I kept waiting for this book to be like many others where Silicon Valley is full of evil, terrible people who are plotting some sinister way to exploit the main characters. I think I hadn’t fully read that it was a romance story. So while there was a little evil-ness, it was mostly a story about five kids who win an opportunity to participate at a special program hosted by a big tech company (that smelled a lot like a combination of Apple and Google). As someone who works at one of these companies, I laughed at some of what was true and some of what was clearly exaggerated but all in the spirit of fun. The writers are both from the industry so there’s nothing here that was egregiously ridiculous except maybe that they couldn’t predict the 2023 slow down of tech. I enjoyed each of the five characters. They weren’t super complex but they also weren’t cartoons. They just weren’t deeply developed but it didn’t bother me. This was a fun, entertaining read. with gratitude to netgalley and Hyperion Avenue for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
A beautiful and touching story about a family, kids who lost their mom at a young age and had a dad that was brilliant and yet difficult to grow up with. Complicated relationships as they are preparing for their dad’s seventieth birthday and more and more secrets start unraveling. Brodeur writes with subtlety, compassion, and kindness. Her characters are complex and you can’t help but feel for them. This is a touching and beautiful story about how complicated our relationships can be with those closest to us. with gratitude to edelweiss and Simon & Schuster for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review. 
Painting: today’s fun with watercolor. These pages are meditative and joyful and simple.
#art #watercolor #willajournal #willajournalscourse #color #joy  Writing: today’s quote with thanks to Gibran. A good reminder of choice.
Love lettering in my @willa.wanders journal. Highly recommend both of the classes. #art #lettering #collage #willajournal #gibran #khalilgibran 
Making: another page in the @lizelayne five things signature of my @willa.wanders journal.
So grateful for summer and quiet moments. #art #collage #willajournal #fivethings #journaling  Reading: City People
New vacation day, new ARC. #random #book #netgalley #mystery #reading #arc  Listening to: She Gets the Girl.
Reading more LGBTQ+ books and this was on the list. #random #book #audiobook #ya #lgbtq? #reading  Playing: Another inspiration by @willa.wanders is this watercolor willa journal where I get to play with color every day.
Once I’ve filled up the whole thing, I will go back and letter every page, too. But for now I am just basking in the joy of playing with color every day. #art #watercolor #color #willajournal 
Making: The best part of a holiday weekend is all the time I get to play play play.
I’ve discovered @willa.wanders this year by taking her class on lettering which was life-changing for me. I then signed up for her journal making class which gave me endless amounts of joy. Now I get to practice lettering in my Willa journal daily. #art #lettering #quotes #collage 
Writing: I just finished the June Five Things class by @lizelayne and have loved waking up to her invitation to pause and her simple and yet thoughtful prompts and her inspiring links every morning.
I was on such a roll that I decided.to continue my daily list making by redoing the prompts she’d shared for the February edition. If you haven’t taken her classes before, I highly recommend them. Loving doing them in my @willa.wanders journal. #art #collage #fivethings
This is a different and interesting book on how to structure your sketches for a scene with buildings and landscape. It focuses less on how to draw the bits of a building but more around how to make decisions around where to frame the elements of the scene, how to get the proportions and perspective right and then how to break down the structures of the drawing to get the scene to match what you’re looking at. It’s unlike any other book I’ve read on this topic and I think for that reason alone, it’s a valuable addition to your library of art/sketching books. with gratitude to Tuttle Publishing and edelweiss for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review |
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