Books I can remember reading this year
December 22, 2004
Drawing Inspiration
Back To The Slaughterhouse - Ronald Searle
Carnet De Voyage - Craig Thompson.
David Gentleman’s Britain
David Gentleman’s Coastline
David Gentleman’s India
David Gentleman’s London
Drawing On Life - The Autobiography Of Paul Hogarth
Drawing With Children; Monica Brookes
Le Monde De Zep
Paris, Paris - Ronald Searle
The Art Of Silver – Stephen Silver
The Elements Of Drawing - John Ruskin
The Penguin Ronald Searle
The St. Trinian’s Story - Ronald Searle
USA For Beginners - Ronald Searle
Non Fiction
Loved:
The Wisdom Of Crowds - James Surowiecki
What’s The Matter With Kansas - Thomas Frank
Man’s Search For Himself – Rollo May
Death - The Final Stage Of Growth - Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
Michelangelo And The Pope’s Ceiling – Ross King
One Writer’s Beginning’s - Eudor Welty
The Power Of Now - Eckhart Tolle
Liked:
Charlie Wilson's War - George Crile
Lies And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them - Al Franken
Plan Of Attack - Bob Woodward
The Making Of Kind Of Blue – Eric Nisenson
The Metaphysical Club - Louis Menand
The Rise Of The Creative Class – Richard Florida
Will In The World - Stephen Greenblatt
Fiction
Loved:
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Car Camping - Mark Suneen
Carter Beats The Devil - Glen David Gold
Collected Short Stories, Vols. 1-4 - W. Somerset Maugham
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
Dreamland - Kevin Baker
Ender’s Game- Orson Scott Card
Ender’s Shadow - Orson Scott Card
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
The Partly Cloudy Patriot - Sarah Vowell
The Book Of Illusions – Paul Auster
The Razor’s Edge - W.Somerset Maugham
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
White Noise - Don Delillo
Liked:
All The Presidents’ Pets - Mo Rocca
Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim - David Sedaris
Enchantment - Orson Scott Card
Hand To Mouth – Paul Auster
Holy Fire - Bruce Sterling
I Am Charlotte Simmons - Tom Wolfe
Shadow Puppets - Orson Scott Card
The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl
The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
The Heart Of The Matter - Graham Greene
The Magician - W. Somerset Maugham
The Moon And Sixpence - W.Somerset Maugham
Wake Up, Sir -Jonathan Ames
Reread
A Zoo In My Luggage – Gerald Durrell
All Things Bright And Beautiful - James Herriot
On The Road – Jack Kerouac
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
A record of my exploration into all aspects of drawing, illustrated journaling, creativity, and the inspiring aspects of art. By the author of "Everyday Matters," "The Creative License", and "An Illustrated Life" and other books.
Comments
Wow. You sure like W.Somerset Maugham :) A few years ago a friend of mine stormed into my office with an arm-load of books. "I've given up fiction!" he proclaimed and dropped the stack of books on my desk. I still have those books and at least nine of them are W.Somerset Maugham.
I read "Razor's Edge" many years ago. I think I'll read "Collected Short Stories" in 2005.
Keep up the great work. Thanks!
Posted by: MrChucho | December 24, 2004 09:53 PM
Do you know this book:
Illustrated Letters: Artists and Writers Correspond
by Roselyne De Ayala, Jean-Pierre GuenoIf.
If not, I highly recommend it. It's a magnificent collection of varied styles of sketching and the writen word full of beautifully illustrated letters of such artists such as Picasso, Derain, Rodin and writers like Colette, Rimbaud, Guy de Maupassant, Balzac, George Sand, etc...
Posted by: Parastoo Nasr | December 25, 2004 02:32 PM
Thanks for the great reading list ... may I add a couple of my favorites for drawing inspiration
1. Drawn from Memory, an autobiography of E.H. Shepard from his Victorian childhood in St.John’s Wood in the 1880s. He was 7-8 years old, and he drew all the time. Brother Cyril and sister Ethel, servants and maiden aunts, horse-drawn buses and hansom cabs. More the 120 drawings. Ernest Shepherd illustrated Winnie the Pooh and Now We are Six, others by AA Milne … also Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame.
2. Little Things in a Big Country, Hannah Hinchman
I think you mentioned this one previously. On the book jacket "if Annie Dillard were an artist, she might have composed a book like this". Glorious drawings and paintings of "an artist and her dog on the Rocky Mountain Front" ... and ... every page is lettered by hand
This one has touched my heart so that I'm planning a trip to the Montana prairie in the spring as soon as the roads improve ... I want to see all the places she writes about
Posted by: Janice | December 25, 2004 02:43 PM
I just finished "The Time Traveler's Wife" and it, too, went into my LOVE pile. Mmm mmm good.
Posted by: mal | December 28, 2004 01:31 PM