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"Sharp is a knife skills class in book form and an introduction to the best …
I have (to my own horror) become a knife guy after having to learn to do some rudimentary sharpening w/ a whetstone, because the knives at home have become dangerously blunt...
Ambientato nello scenario di un austero inverno nel Wisconsin, "Blankets" è un esericizio nel genere …
I got this as a gift from a friend who said that it's one of their favourite books, and read it in one sitting on a flight home. Blankets invokes the same feelings in me that visiting museums and looking at snowglobes do. It preserves a sense of sacredness in all things, no matter how temporary — snow, first love, faith etc. I think this is one of those books you experience, as opposed to deliberately processing/thinking about it.
(Also I really liked that this graphic novel was in black and white for some reason)