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garbo2garbo's review
4.0
Adrian Tomine manages to capture the essence of a city -the daily observations and thoughts - showing the charm and his love for the city. One illustration can be a whole story - an insight into individual's life, captured in a moment, kept forever.
glenng's review
4.0
Not sure if this should count towards my goal of number of books read for the year since there wasn't a lot of reading. Some really great images in there. Well worth a look.
clairelorraine's review
4.0
I thought these were more charming and cleverer than their wordier counterparts.
sanabanana's review against another edition
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
I loved this! Adrien Tomine's art is very clean yet expressive and some of his original concept art and his life sketches, I absolutely loved.
garbo2garbo's review against another edition
4.0
Adrian Tomine manages to capture the essence of a city -the daily observations and thoughts - showing the charm and his love for the city. One illustration can be a whole story - an insight into individual's life, captured in a moment, kept forever.
canadianbookworm's review against another edition
4.0
This collection intrigued me from the cover, which was actually a The New Yorker cover. It shows a young woman on a subway train reading a book, looking through a window to see a young man on another subway train going in the opposite direction, reading the same book. I liked the image, and was interested to see what else he had done.
The book is structured with the images, placed nicely on the page, with just their titles, where they were published, and the date of publication. There is a section of notes at the end that explains the context of the images: what they were accompanying, if anything; the artist's intention (sometimes), and other commentary. I didn't discover the notes until I'd looked through all the images, so then I went back to the beginning again and looked through them all again, checking the notes as I went.
Because I hadn't seem the images in context originally, when they were published, my first round left me unclear for many what their context and purpose were. The notes helped immensely with this and I found them very useful. I am of two minds as to whether they should have been included with the image, as I think they would have cluttered the clear pages, but they were essential to my understanding and appreciating the images.
The book is structured with the images, placed nicely on the page, with just their titles, where they were published, and the date of publication. There is a section of notes at the end that explains the context of the images: what they were accompanying, if anything; the artist's intention (sometimes), and other commentary. I didn't discover the notes until I'd looked through all the images, so then I went back to the beginning again and looked through them all again, checking the notes as I went.
Because I hadn't seem the images in context originally, when they were published, my first round left me unclear for many what their context and purpose were. The notes helped immensely with this and I found them very useful. I am of two minds as to whether they should have been included with the image, as I think they would have cluttered the clear pages, but they were essential to my understanding and appreciating the images.
mellowbeing's review against another edition
3.0
Interesting illustrations. Great style. Not a big fan of the New Yorker but maybe I'll start reading it more?
debshelf's review against another edition
4.0
I really love Tomine's style; each of these deceptively clean drawings tells a much deeper story. I found myself dwelling on a number of them and daydreaming.
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