2020 Advent Calendar [17] – ItWasaRabbit

December 17, 2020

It was a Rabbit is the nickname under which you can find Lora’s work, an artist based in Wilmslow: her Etsy shop is here and I discovered her thanks to ThisThursday’s post about Christmas Cards. The name comes from the omonimous book, «a charming story about not judging on first impressions», but if you’re looking for less educational and more festive stuff (shame on you), you might find solace in the Have yourself a roarsome Christmas card but, most importantly, the Christmas is Cancelled, I ate Santa gift card.

I warned you I would try and do a sort of Advent Calendar recommending you an indipendent artist and illustrator each day till Christmas: I’m not making any promises, let’s see if I can keep this up.

books and literature

Isaac Asimov’s Living Space and Other Stories

By the life of me, I will never understand how these are collected.The book contains some delightful short stories plus a slightly longer one (Profession), mostly all of them revolving around the rise of Multivac, the first supercomputer built by humanity which in turn takes

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Summertime

Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Architect

Same poet, different book. Rilke, the Bohemian poet and playwright, already made an appearance in the original list, so I’m well aware that bringing him back on day two of a sequel about not repeating myself is a strange way to start. But the Duino

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books and literature

The Thursday Murder Club

I wanted to read this series after seeing the delightful movie on Netflix, which would have been worth it if only for the stellar cast. After I started, I couldn’t possibly stop. I think I read the whole thing in a month. Here’s what I

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