Building Stories

Gina

Building Stories | Chris Ware, Marnie Ware, Ware. Clara

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Gina

Building Stories | Chris Ware, Marnie Ware, Ware. Clara

So I just picked up this box set of graphic novels for $3. This has got to be the coolest art/book piece I have seen in a long time. I'm so glad to have discovered this author!

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Lindy

Building Stories | Chris Ware, Marnie Ware, Ware. Clara

Building Stories reading party underway. #partylikeanintrovert

Tanisha_A What a beautiful sight! 😍 5y

Lindy @Tanisha_A Ha! Have you ever invited people over to read in your house? One guest said she had been nervous beforehand about reading in public, but we were all focused on our own books so she was fine. 5y

LeahBergen Oh, fun! 5y

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Come-read-with-me @Lindy This is the Christmas of my dreams! 😍😍😍 5y

Cathythoughts What a lovely idea ... & no I never have done this ... ❤️❤️❤️ so silent ! Wow (edited) 5y

Fridameetslucy Now that‘s my kind of party !!! 5y

Soubhiville What a cool idea! I asked for this for Christmas. I hope you enjoyed it! 5y

Lindy @Soubhiville It‘s a tour de force. I hope your Christmas wish is fulfilled. 🎁 5y

Lindy @Fridameetslucy Ha! Book lovers unite! 5y

Lindy @Cathythoughts Maybe the idea will catch on. I‘ve heard of reading nights in pubs. 5y

Lindy @Come-read-with-me 😁📚🎄 5y

Lindy @LeahBergen It was, yes. I have nice friends. 🥰 5y

Annl I would love this. One of my goals for the new year is to join a local reading group if I can find one that fits my interests. I was so happy when I discovered Litsy years ago! 5y

Lindy @Annl Good luck with your search. You might need to start your own group if you can‘t find one. Staff at a bookstore or library might be able to help you. 🍀 5y

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Lindy

Building Stories | Chris Ware, Marnie Ware, Ware. Clara

Building Stories reading buddies.

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Lindy

Building Stories | Chris Ware, Marnie Ware, Ware. Clara

The aftermath of a Building Stories reading party. There were nine of us and most people read only one of the 14 pieces in the box. Afterwards, we went around the circle talking about what we‘d read and where we could see connections with what others had read. Someone said we should organize a weekend retreat just for reading all of the parts in this box. 😊

LinesUponAPage Looks and sounds like fun! 5y

merelybookish Very cool! I've only read about this book. Never actually seen it myself. 5y

Tanisha_A Sounds super fun! 5y

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Lindy @Lifeisasnap Yes, we had a good time. 😊 5y

Lindy @merelybookish I read it when I got it as a gift in 2012, but not since then. It was nice to revisit it because the whole thing is brilliant. 5y

Lindy @Tanisha_A Yep. 😁 5y

Come-read-with-me @Lindy This looks like an amazing idea! 5y

Lindy @Come-read-with-me I hadn‘t calculated how long it would take to read the whole thing, but I‘m glad it worked to have people read just one piece each. 5y

Come-read-with-me @Lindy Looks like a great way to spend some time before the holiday. Seems relaxing! 5y

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gradcat

Building Stories | Chris Ware, Marnie Ware, Ware. Clara

1. If I‘m honest, I really like gift certificates to a book store, so that I might buy whatever I wish. As for giving, I do like to give arty books (or coffee-table books) if the subject is interesting. One year I gave the tagged book to an artist friend of mine...it‘s sort of a 3-D graphic novel...very cool. 👩🏻‍🎨
2. Reading 📖
3. New to Litsy, so I don‘t have any 🤭
4. A Christmas Story 🎥
5. Ok! 👌🏻
#friyayintro
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LMJenkins Welcome to Litsy! 6y

gradcat @LMJenkins I‘m not too new, I mean I joined right around Halloween this year, but I didn‘t understand anything (still don‘t sometimes 😂), so I made no goals for 2018. I will (already have) made some for 2019. Thank you!! (edited) 6y

alisiakae I‘ll be doing a lot of reading next week too. 📚 💙 6y

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saguarosally Don‘t worry about complex challenges or reading hundreds of books a year. If you read one book that you wouldn‘t have before, it‘s more knowledge that you didn‘t have before. 6y

Trashcanman Where ya been? 6y

gradcat @saguarosally Thanks for that! I need to hear things like that from time to time. 😍 6y

gradcat @Trashcanman Where have YOU been, on the contrary?! No, in actual fact, I have had a migraine that is not letting up...I have about four or five hours after I wake up when I can function, but then it comes back and I have to go back to bed—so sorry!! Are you doing alright? 6y

gradcat @4thhouseontheleft You said you don‘t really celebrate Christmas—I really don‘t either...I‘m not anti- or anything, I just don‘t have a lot of family and I‘m kind of isolated out in the country. It is a good time to get a lot of reading done, though...I just hope your sister can get home to celebrate the holiday & you are able to read without worrying about her too much. 🤞🏼🙏🍀 (edited) 6y

Trashcanman @gradcat you live in the woods with tree trees or not tree trees? 6y

gradcat @Trashcanman Tree trees 🌲 🌳😂 6y

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Flaneurette

Building Stories | Chris Ware, Marnie Ware, Ware. Clara

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Not actually tagged book, not in Litsy database. Chris Ware is a stinkin genius, that space between the c and h on the restaurant sign breaks my heart, such minutely observed details. A melancholy novella about being an awkward elementary school kid. Tagged book also highly recommended

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thebluestocking

Building Stories | Chris Ware, Marnie Ware, Ware. Clara

This is sold as a book, but it looks more like a board game filled with 14 different book-like things. You can read them in any order and build yourself a story. I found this through the Tournament of Books several years ago. #oversizedbook #riotgrams

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batsy That looks wonderfully intriguing! 7y

mrp27 Neat! 7y

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Mitch

Building Stories | Chris Ware, Marnie Ware, Ware. Clara

It‘s been an intense work day today so not in the mood to pick up my book. Perfect night though to rediscover the little booklets that make up Building Stories. It‘s a wonderfully intricate sets of stories, all in slightly different formats, about an apartment block. You see the same events from different residents POV. It‘s intriguing, beautiful and accessible when the eyes/ brain is tired but the soul needs literature! #graphicnovel

minkyb Very cool! 7y

kspenmoll Intriguing! 7y

Mitch It really is beautiful- it‘s all in this luscious box that has a plan of the apartment building. It‘s super clever and beautiful ! I highly recommend it! 7y

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Keyoung

Building Stories | Chris Ware, Marnie Ware, Ware. Clara

Our homemade bookshelves are *mostly* finished so I started putting my comics up. I'll be spending my long weekend figuring out some sort of home cataloging scheme. #shelfie

britt_brooke Nice!! 7y

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Crystalblu

Building Stories | Chris Ware, Marnie Ware, Ware. Clara

#3?!

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Crystalblu

Building Stories | Chris Ware, Marnie Ware, Ware. Clara

#2 and The Husband just got me my first book box subscription!! Super excited!

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Crystalblu

Building Stories | Chris Ware, Marnie Ware, Ware. Clara

First of the 14 items in this exciting read!

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Crystalblu

Building Stories | Chris Ware, Marnie Ware, Ware. Clara

What awesomeness is this?!

tpixie Great cover art! 8y

Crystalblu Even cooler when you open the box! More pictures to come as I delve in! 8y

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Marchpane

Building Stories | Chris Ware, Marnie Ware, Ware. Clara

This is the section of my book case for coffee table books. Building Stories counts because you need a table to spread out all the pieces! 😉

#funfridayphoto #coffeetablebooks

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BekahB Building Stories has been on my wish list for a long time! 8y

Linsy 😄 8y

Redheadrambles Oh Shaun Tan is in there, I collect his works and just brought The Singing Bones - which looks so cute. 8y

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Marchpane @Redheadrambles the Singing Bones looks amazing. Shaun Tan is the best and I wish I had a collection like yours! 8y

Redheadrambles @Marchpane - I started with The Red Tree it gets all the stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 8y

LeahBergen I misread the title of the bottom book as "Tories". What a gruesome coffee table book THAT would be! ? 8y

Marchpane @LeahBergen *shudder* 😂 8y

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GregoryCass

Building Stories | Chris Ware, Marnie Ware, Ware. Clara

My wife ( @rachel_mbc ) works at a great book store, so we've got a great signed book shelf. I want to share more of them on Litsy, so I'll try to post one each weekend. I'm thinking #signedsundays

Alisnazzy This is so beautiful!!! 😍😍 8y

BookishMarginalia Looking forward to your #signedsundays! And I studied at Harvard and lived in Quincy House, so I stopped by Harvard Book Store every day! It's still my favorite bookstore ever! 💜 8y

rachel_mbc @BookishMarginalia Aww, yay, it's always nice to hear from happy customers, past and present. Stop by and say hello if you're ever back in town! 8y

LeahBergen Ahhh, it was YOU that came up with #SignedSundays! 👍🏼 8y

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Thekelburrows

Building Stories | Chris Ware, Marnie Ware, Ware. Clara

Chris Ware is a genius and captures the human experience with almost cruel realism.

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