Never Leave Home Without A Book This Summer

May 8, 2015

MICHEL FABER – THE BOOK OF STRANGE NEW THINGS

The Book of Strange New ThingDon’t take my next statement as bragging or gloating but I’m used to getting free things in the office. When I worked at a photo studio, I once walked out of a “blogger meeting” with a pair of BLK DNM. At a TV network, executives were always paying for lunches and drinks. My favorite might have been working at a magazine that had a freebie table with scores of books piling up towards the ceiling. Each time I would pluck a novel from the table, I felt a ping of guilt at not getting it at the Strand but I quickly got over it. Part of my blog’s tagline is “On a budget.” after all and some of the books (ie: The World in Vogue: People, Parties, Places which is now one of my featured coffee table books) would normally have a high sticker price used or not.

Most times, I’d read the description of the book or scan a couple of pages to see if I’d be interested but I picked up Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things because of the gold edges each page of the book has. I’m still not 100% clear on the subject matter but from what I glean from the press release stuck between the pages, it is a “mesmerizing work of extraordinary imagination” that is an “exploration of fashion, love and humanity’s search for meaning in an unfathomable universe.”

This. Sounds. Dreadful. However, Faber is an award-winning author and I am interested to see if this book that has been labeled a masterpiece by some can bring me in and successfully suspend me in its universe.

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