pickThe coffee table book format may suggest a shallow read, but there's an awful lot of information packed in here! Although it acts more like an appetizer for any one life story you might want to read more about, so many of the original journals, diaries, featured here have been published in book or excerpt form that it simultaneously acts as an introduction and a reading list. 1/?
Such elegant phrasing of such an ugly thing.
“Color possess me...“ ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Not just a prolific inventor, Edison apparently possessed stylish penmanship. A lot of photos of pages from the original journals or their manuscript copies in this collection, this is the first one in I could easily read.
Random book from our personal library.
2011 review: ★★★★★
#letters #michaelcollins
So half my mind is going: happy tree! 🌳☺️
And the other half is picturing the Ents trashing Saruman's tower. 😏 Perhaps no discontented, non-roaming trees....
Beautiful images, in words and paint.
pickUnexpectedly fun and enjoyable epistolary novel! I admit the title put me off, but then it was recommended by people whose opinions I trust and I‘m so glad I gave it a chance.
“with the colours all shining“ 😌🎨
The formatting is interesting because you'll see in images a sample of the diary, perhaps other examples of that person's work or things from their life, and a bit of in context imagery and wording besides the basic bio and what's significant about the diary and their life. 2d
The 'directory' at the end of each section of time covered felt a bit odd, because all of a sudden you'd get a two-page spread of columns of text covering a handful of extra diaries from the same time period without any further visuals or details. I mean, if you're going to include them, give them the page spread too! 2d
It makes sense that a good number of the entries are about writers, though I guess from the cover, I was surprised there were not more artists, or people who had made their diaries into art objects. It's really more of a who's who beyond the very first journals which are significant just for their place in the timeline of the medium's existence. 2d
The collection does include a fair amount of female contributors, the percentages feel as though they represent the timeline, the historical disparity in women having the ability to be recognized for literary achievement or work outside the home. 2d
An interesting read, but I think I like focusing more on the life of one individual at a time. More memoirs to come! 2d