"JeJe's grandfather was a librarian at an old library in the middle of the forest" is how Tae-Eun Yoo's stunning debut begins. From here Yoo takes us on a magnificent illustrated journey with JeJe as he explores the library with his little red fish at his side. Soon JeJe falls asleep and when he wakes he finds that his comrade has disappeared into the biblio-ether of the library. To find his fish JeJe must dive head first into a book, entering a magical new world in pursuit of his little friend.The soft elegance of the sepia-toned illustrations carry us along,...
FUEL That’s Good for the Planet
FUEL is the London design firm of Damon Murray & Stephen Sorrell.In 2005 they launched FUEL publishing and their latest title brings to print a selection of amazing images from the noteworthy blog BibliOdyssey. The book is titled BibliOdyssey: Amazing Archival Images From The Internet"BibliOdyssey’s mission has been to search the dustier corners of the internet and retrieve these materials for our enjoyment. Thanks to the efforts of this singular weblog, a myriad of long-forgotten imagery has now resurfaced. Each of these fascinating images is accompanied by a commentary from PK, author and curator of BibliOdyssey, and a link to...
Book Review: Illuminated by Matt Bronleewe
The bad guys need to round up 3 extant Gutenberg bibles so they can piece together a secret code through the illuminations and gain "immeasurable wealth while doing incalculable damage to two major religions." They kidnap the kid of a rare book dealer or "archeobibliologist" August Adams who's knowledge base is the only hope the bad guys have to figure out the mystery.Adam's wife also happens to be a librarian at the Library of Congress and has access to their copy of the Bible which is also needed for this operation. Her name is April.One of the main villains is...
Book Review: 501 Minutes to Christ by Poe Ballantine
In these 11 essays Ballantine brings us along on a light-hearted journey through the ups and downs of being human. Cooking his way through life waiting and hoping for literary nirvana Ballantine's trip includes an account of his suicidal musings in Advice to William Somebody, a inside look at the horrors of crank in Methamphetamine for Dummies and his fear induced homicidal tendencies in The Irving, where his appearance at the largest reading of his literary life throws him for such a loop that he dreams up a plan to knock off Norman Mailer and John Irving. Luckily, Ballantine works...
Books in Pictures
This is the dust jacket of the first English language edition of Stefan Bollmann's Reading Women. It was published last year by Merrell with a foreword by Karen Jay Fowler. It is the first book devoted to the history of women reading in art. With one hundred color illustrations ranging from Simone Martini's Annunciation, 1333 which shows Jesus's mom Mary being a bit startled at having her reading interrupted by a golden angel, to Eve Arnold's photograph of Marilyn Monroe reading a copy of James Joyce's Ulysses. Each image is accompanied by a paragraph or two placing it in its...