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The Corset & The Jellyfish: A Conundrum of Drabbles by Nick Bantock
challenging
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
5.0
This book has me utterly entranced for four main reasons;
1. Wordplay: A drabble is a short piece of fiction of exactly 100 words
2. The efforts taken by the author and publisher to match the stories and icons must have taken a lot of time, and coffee. The stories and icons are so deliciously random and convoluted that there is a temptation to break each icon down to its constituent parts to try and find patterns that will allow them to be used in different combinations, making this book delightfully meditative. This may be an intention reminiscent of the era in which the author surmises that the stories were written (1960s/ 1970s)
3. The back story: It's so nice to place the endeavour in space and time, and give it a new lease of life decades later (I will not spoil the backstory as that sets the reader up for the book)
4. The Artwork: It is a delightful mix of psychedelia and cave painting/ chalk hill figure styles, perhaps drawn in ink and watercolour and I found myself turning the page and thinking of my own alternative drabbles
This is a book that is multi-faceted and you see something new every time. It is a pleasure to get lost in the stories and familiarise yourself with the images. Beautifully done
This glorious book was gratefully received from NetGalley and I leave my review voluntarily
1. Wordplay: A drabble is a short piece of fiction of exactly 100 words
2. The efforts taken by the author and publisher to match the stories and icons must have taken a lot of time, and coffee. The stories and icons are so deliciously random and convoluted that there is a temptation to break each icon down to its constituent parts to try and find patterns that will allow them to be used in different combinations, making this book delightfully meditative. This may be an intention reminiscent of the era in which the author surmises that the stories were written (1960s/ 1970s)
3. The back story: It's so nice to place the endeavour in space and time, and give it a new lease of life decades later (I will not spoil the backstory as that sets the reader up for the book)
4. The Artwork: It is a delightful mix of psychedelia and cave painting/ chalk hill figure styles, perhaps drawn in ink and watercolour and I found myself turning the page and thinking of my own alternative drabbles
This is a book that is multi-faceted and you see something new every time. It is a pleasure to get lost in the stories and familiarise yourself with the images. Beautifully done
This glorious book was gratefully received from NetGalley and I leave my review voluntarily