The Ultimate Cartoon Book of Books Cartoons by the World's Greatest Cartoonists, Edited by Bob
There are cartoons portraying Amazon, libraries, bookstores; Ernest Hemingway is celebrated close to Oscar Wilde; there are ladies of a Book Club discussing of their latest reading while sipping peacefully some tea. A mice is keeping company to the owner of a bookstore and the lady with some books on his hands sounds a bit suprised.
There are men in a libraries choosing a book from a shelf.
There is an author, a dog, pretty listened during a bark bark, woof woof meeting with serious intellectuals.
There is a man substantially buried by books with reader's block; maybe he is taken prisoner by million and million of words by the most diversified authors!
Someone else remark that no, his daddy is not a sportman. He reads.
Another cartoon will tell the story of these two friends: a man confesses to his best mate that he loves poetry but just when it is funny.
A woman cries to the man she is leaving her that she doesn't need him because she has a book deal.
We will meet an Hamlet transported in our times and with the necessity of buying some books, but...Amazon or not Amazon? That is the question.
Intellectually provoking this love letters to book through cartoons has seen the participation of 33 cartoonists like: Sam Gross, Roz Chast, Peter Steiner, Mick Stevens Bob Mankoff, most of them published constantly in the New Yorker. These cartoons will enchant you.
If you are in love for books, trust me, you know you can do that, I know that this book will become one of your favorite ones!
Highly recommended.
I thank NetGalley for this ebook.
Anna Maria Polidori
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