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Art & Illustration Memes

Top Ten Tuesday: Book Covers for the Winter

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by Jana over at That Artsy Reader Girl. Every Tuesday, you pick ten books on that week’s topic. And this week, we get free room to pick ten reads for the Winter season.

Here are the book covers that made me go Brrr…! with a Sigh this December.

All in all, Winter seems to denote so many things: #Christmas #snow #Rest&Relaxation #forgiveness #the never-ending pursuit of love #Santa Claus #mountainous adventures #gifts #irony #nostalgia #bottled memories #friendships in odd places #fairytales by the fireside #laughter #miracles, and of course, #moments of kindness.

Which bookish things does cold season remind you of? Would love to know!

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Art & Illustration Books

Tam Lin by Jane Yolen & its Splendid Artwork

O I forbid you, maidens a’
That wear gold in your hair,
To come or go by Carterhaugh
For young Tam Lin is there.
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Art & Illustration Recommendations Watchlist

Tale of Genji: Anime Movie Review

The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) is a 1987 anime movie directed by Gisaburō Sugii and is a surreal, melancholic mix of fact and fantasy. It’s based on (large portions of) The Tale of Genji written by Murasaki Shikibu back in the Heian period (794 to 1185) of Japanese history, also arguably the world’s first true “novel”.

Utagawa Kunisada & Utagawa Hiroshige – Tale of Genji, wood block painting 1853