3 posts tagged “books”
This week we've had local artists give talks and show works in two of my classes. Very exciting!
On Monday, Daniel Minter visited my Illustration class and showed us many of his prints and some of his paintings, as well as published work, and then did a short demonstration on printing carved rubber blocks. This is one of the works he showed:
Which book would you love to see adapted into a film?
Provided it was done really well? I think it's a tie between these two YA fantasy novels:
Sabriel is set in an alternate-reality United Kingdom, in which England is technologically modern and Scotland is a land of ancient magic, full of spirits and necromancers.
Abarat begins in rural Chickentown, Minnesota, but quickly shifts in setting to a mysterious archipelago where every island is a different hour of the day and inhabitants can look like anything. (It's also beautifully illustrated.)
I love libraries. I did most of my community service hours in high school in our local library, and shelving books in the teen section was quite often the highlight of my week. Not because my weeks, were bad, but because it was a great antidote to the stress of senior year. Sort of like yoga for the total nerdypants.
The library at Bennington is really nothing special. The librarians themselves are great, and the space is pleasant, though very limited. The smallness of it doesn't bother me because I live on the other side of campus -- just getting to the library is adventure enough -- but Bennington students are infamous for raiding the contents of the impressive Williams library system when they can't find what they're looking for here.
My favorite part of the library is the basement, which is mostly full of those tall rolling stacks that, like, totally roll. It's fluorescent and a little creepy down there, which only adds to the ambiance. It's not the part of the library you'd cozy up in to read the Times... I think what I love about it is the sheer book-to-airspace ratio.
The library is planning an addition, and after the successful (almost) completion of Moonbase, many Benningtonites believe that it really will happen. (Maybe it's time to start returning all those Williams books.)
