They Lived in my Head

Hello readers,

Yesterday I did something amazing, something I have only done a handful of times in my life. I finished a novel.

And it was great. The novel was ‘Super Sad True Love Story’ by Gary Shteyngart, and it looks like this…

I can’t really describe the book other than a dystopian love story set in a grim yet frighteningly believable future (basically right up my street).

Anyways I’m not going to actually review the book because I’d be totally crap at it, I’d just like to talk about some of the characters.

After I finished the book and thumped it shut (I think that’s the universal gesture for finishing books) I felt a little sad, not because of the ending or anything, it was more because I had left the characters. And since it takes me months to get through a single novel, I had spent a lot of time with these people floating around my head waiting to speak whenever I opened up the book again.

Like most people, I gave them faces. I imagined what they might have looked like if I met them, although the book does describe their appearances I’m guessing everyone’s picture in their head would be different.

So as a little homage, and a drawing exercise I decided to put their faces onto paper.
This is Lenny, I guess you could say he is the main character, his diary entries make up half of the book and from them you can tell he’s a bit of an old hat in a new world, in fact he’s one of the few people he knows that actually still reads books or ‘printed bound media’ as they’re refered to. For whatever reason I imagined him to look a bit like Paul Giamatti.

Next is Eunice

Eunice is kind of an ambassador for this future world, being all media and up to date. She is also Lennys love interest. Her side of things is also accounted for, except through the media of emails and in some cases typed conversations like you’d see on msn messenger or facebook chat(quite an interesting way of seeing a story unfold).

So yea, I highly recommend this book if you’re into the same things as me.

I guess drawing these people was my own little way of giving them a send off.  I’m starting to think I need to get out more.

Well thanks for reading!

Take care nx

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26 stamps later…

Well I stuck to my word and that’s all my postcards now out travelling the world, some went as far as eastern europe, a couple went to America and one is even on it’s way to Indonesia, each one with it’s own bit of inane babbling from me. I hope some of you get the time to write back or even write a letter or postcards to a friend near or far, my main point of this little experiment is really to try and bring back writing to people, getting a hand written letter in the mail, for me, is far exciting than a text or email etc

p.s If you left a comment last week and didn’t hear from me I sent an e-mail to the address you left the comment with, so check it or no postcard for you!

Also If you’d like some of my postcards for yourself they’re availible from my etsy shop!

I’ll be back soon with some new pictures and adventures :)

Nx

Keep it in Writing

Hello Everyone!

Hope you are well, Today’s a wee bit of a special day, it marks the 1st birthday of this here blog! Hurrah! That’s right, for a year now I’ve been managed to keep spouting nonsense accompanied by messy doodles a child could do and still people keep reading it! So to mark this occasion I’d like to make a little competition, (if it can be called that).

See the thing is, I really like writing letters and postcards(as you can see above), though I think its becoming somewhat of a lost art, so for all the people who comment this post today I will personally write you a postcard (with my own art on it).

You don’t have to write back, although you’re more than welcome to, It’s really just a little thank you to everyone who’s supported me over the past wee while, Thanks :)

ok try me!

nx