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incacat

incacat

I will not read anything unless it shows me something I already know in a new way, shows me something I don't know, or makes every last nerve on my body swell with electricity. I read as a way to contact the spirit world. I crave the aesthetic moments. I don't read like some people watch TV, without much thought and flipping through the... more »
  • Lexington, KY, USA
  • member since February 16 2007

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  • The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections
    • Rated 0 stars

    “I don't even have any children and I adore this book. Her ideas are simple, thoughtful and important reflections. Children are weighted down with marketing and grow up without the simple pleasures of hunting for perfect sticks to build a fort. Her ideas and photographs provide a wonderful wish list of delight that seems much more attainable than the latest fad webkinz.. ”

    incacat wrote this review Thursday, April 9 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Feelings
    • Rated 5 stars

    “My mom bought this for me which I remember because all of my books growing up I bought with my Dad. I remember each page in detail, I remember making up stories in the bathtub to go along with the feelings. I remember feeling grateful to know that feelings had a name and I could find a place to put all the stuff I felt. I remember feeling possible instead of impossible. ”

    incacat wrote this review Friday, February 13 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Christian Lacroix on Fashion
    • Rated 5 stars

    “Heartfelt and luminous. Lacroix speaks personably and plainly about his adoration for adornment. The pieces represented here painfully express the whimsy, the power, the magnificence of clothing. Pattern, color, shape, line it is easy to see the influences, easier still to be inspired by such small details as two mismatched florals sewn into a rollicking bustle. I spent the better part of a lunch break imagining how to turn my clothes into such epic stories. Lacroix shows the viewer that above all else an article of clothing reveals a story. What kind of story is up to the wearer. ”

    incacat wrote this review Friday, February 13 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Wasteland
    • Rated 5 stars

    “FLB does wondrous things, impossible things. Eliot can be unreadable to some. Block brings in that mystery, that terror, the frustration and symbology into her story. A grief that is palpable, a love that is forbidden (isn't all true love forbidden in some way), a rebirth that is resplendent. Wasteland is where we all go when there are too many things pointing at one road to go down. ”

    incacat wrote this review Friday, February 13 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Malady of Death
    • Rated 5 stars

    “Wrought. That is the best way to describe this. This tale emerges after all the extremities of love have been eroded by the sea. They have been set ablaze to refine and succumb to the mold, except no expression of love fits within the mold erected for it. No matter how small, how large, how minimal something always escapes at the edges. Duras created an impenetrable line of moments seeking a relationship with a viewer.
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    incacat wrote this review Wednesday, February 4 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Graveyard Book
    • Rated 5 stars

    “What child does not walk between worlds? What child does not learn how to protect its heart, mind and body against the monsters in the dark and the monsters in their waking life. Bod has a story that is unorthodox and is still familiar. A perfect coming of age tale for fantasy addicted kids who lust for the choice of never growing up, and see themselves as defenders of an adult world they might not be ready for. What if you are faced with the choice of life or death, what if the choice was not young forever, but the greater reality of isolation and loneliness. A beautiful story, a beautiful collection of memories, a heartbreaking cast of characters.

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    incacat wrote this review Tuesday, February 3 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Nadja
    • Rated 5 stars

    “I am perpetually reading this book. It continually appears in my handbag and I sink in to receive its story and then I inexplicably stop reading. I think one day I will finish it, but right now it is certainly my catalyst, for it always propels me down another rabbit hole of my own self-expression. ”

    incacat wrote this review Sunday, January 25 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Persistence of Memory
    • Rated 4 stars

    “Madness and Vampire-ism meet eye to eye in this unusual, but not uncomplicated look at all the ways we protect ourselves. Erin has confined herself to "the Ward" to protect herself from what she believes are hallucinations and outbursts due to her schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder. Self-awareness is debated within the community of the mad, and as Erin becomes more independent she realizes her alter, "Shevaun" is more than that. Shevaun is a vampire and a mutually exclusive being existing within her chosen familial bonds. The details of plot are riveting, but not as engaging as the way in which Erin and Shevaun connect and severe in an effort to preserve the sanctuary of their mind's eye. In turns they each learn to become powerful, vulnerable, supernatural, and ordinary. Allegorical towards the lives of teenagers learning to trust their instincts and fulfill their dreams and destinies and still relevent to a fantasy loving community searching for a vampire to identify with. ”

    incacat wrote this review Sunday, January 25 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • You Don't Love Me Yet: A Novel
    • Rated 4 stars

    “I enjoyed that the superficiality of this book was mirrored by its setting: Los Angeles. For Letham a place is one of the characters. Something about the way this was written made my mind imagine each character sitting inside their car on the freeway at rush hour, moving forward a bit, stopping, looking around at what other people are doing a bit, talking on their phone, listening to music, and possibly going backwards a bit when choosing the wrong lane to change into. It seemed that characters only interacted in ones and twos, never in large groups and the conflict was strange enough for Letham, but truly only secondary and ultimately uncooperative with the dialogue. Maybe he did need a paycheck as other reviewers suggest or maybe he got tired of being described the same way by the same people. Much like the characters in this book: setting events in motion to produce a transformation....can that really be called a transformation? ”

    incacat wrote this review Tuesday, December 16 2008. ( reply | permalink )
  • Handmade Modern: Mid-Century Inspired Projects for Your Home
    • Rated 3 stars

    “When my boyfriend and I first moved in together, I was obsessed with this book and making my sweetie build me all this stuff. When we went to buy the supplies for a very simple bookshelf the cost was far above the IKEA version that he would still have to put together anyway. Overall, the projects were great for thinking outside the box, but I do not need much help with that. If you want to get crafty, but stay within the reason of people with regular jobs and not the lifestyles of the rich and famous I recommend The Big Ass Book of Crafts instead. Besides when you think mId-century modern do you really want to see your fabulous credenza with primary colored doors reek with the imperfections of an amateur craftsman? MId-century screams, "Sleek, sleek, sleek". I firmly believe DIY will save everyone's soul, but please start small and work your way up to Oldham's California dreaming modern.”

    incacat wrote this review Tuesday, December 16 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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