Orhan Pamuk’s Memories of Distant Mountains was published last year. I bought a copy right away but it’s taken me a while to review it! I wrote about Pamuk once before, quoting a passage from one of his books where he talks about his grandmother keeping notebooks that she wrote in every day. He must … Continue reading Orhan Pamuk’s Notebooks →
Some beautiful sketchbook art: “Sometimes, the best things are right under your nose, or even in your own backyard.†That’s a simple truth that Montreal artist Shari Blaukopf discovered when she got out her sketchbooks and set out to capture the snippets of her life in watercolour and ink – one drawing at a time. … Continue reading A Montreal Sketchblogger →
Notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, diaries: in search of the perfect page…