Category Archives: Books

David Rault, ABC Of Typography. Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

How you convey the meaning of a word is important, equally just as significant is the way it appears in the body of a text, in the application of pen to paper, or in the semi glow of the computer screen; the misuse of a line full of capital letters can lead to distress to the modern eye, confrontational, hostile, it may have been unintentional, a slip of the fingers and then not bothering to change because the sender knew what it meant…but to the recipient it feels as if they are put in the eye of someone else’s storm, and the defence mechanism kicks in.

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(479 words, 1 image, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Julie Birmant And Clement Oubrere, Isadora. Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision * * * *

Ballet divides opinion, but the dance never should. The ability to break, to smash the conventional is a right that few of us find the true appetite for, we may talk of revolution across every sphere and subject, but in the end we hold on, almost by our fingernails, kicking and screaming, to the orthodox and the dogma of the traditional.

Julie Birmant And Clement Oubrere, Isadora. Graphic Novel Review. full post

(560 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

Georges Simenon: The Carter Of La Providence. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

There is always a question that hangs over the artist’s head, the answer slipping in and out of conscious as they grapple with their vision and attempt to breathe life into it; a question that might scare them, can possibly be years in the making, how do I capture the intensity and drama of my first success as I sit here and contemplate my second offering to the public.

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(515 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Derf Backderf, My Friend Dahmer. Graphic Novel Review.

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How do we look in to the eyes of a killer, of a psychopath, of a human being who has fallen under the weight of madness and whose life will go on to unravel to the point of extreme actions taken, and not see either ourselves, or perhaps the part that we have played in that person’s downfall.

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(760 words, estimated 3:02 mins reading time)

Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives Of The Women Killed By Jack The Ripper. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

We are all guilty of playing the game one sadistic and evil man has managed to trick us into partaking, perhaps willingly as some have searched for answers to a 19th Century riddle, maybe in naïve conversation when we have been drawn into the media spotlight which routinely returns to the streets of Whitechapel, the chilling music reaching our ears, the sensationalist need for gossip but presented as a preamble into lively, even intellectual, discussion. In the shadow of Jack the Ripper we have all at some point ventured, and by doing so, we have created a smokescreen in which entertainment and investigation have become one and the same.

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(696 words, estimated 2:47 mins reading time)

Lewis Trondheim And Stéphane Oiry, Maggy Garrisson. Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

If a picture can paint a thousand words, then London is righty considered a canvas that keeps inspiring, an image of forever change and the backdrop to an ever evolving mixture of oils and a representation of life that is both a textured reflection and despairing copy of its once genius self and the back drop to a million hopeless dreams.

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(474 words, 1 image, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)

Bob Stone, Beat Surrender. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

The prospect of finding another version of yourself on a parallel Earth is not only intriguing but it is alluring, tempting to play out in your mind when the cold blast of reality hits home that quite often your mistakes have the profound effect on shaping the world around you, and that outside influences can distort how the world may be seen.

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(546 words, 1 image, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

A. Tota And P. Van Hove, The Memoirs Of A Book Thief. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Authentic thought in the hands of the misplaced judgement of the radical, is a dream that they perceive to be a realistic and proper, never once conceding that their words, deeds and actions are the result of stolen ideas, of plagiarised misjudged steps; some may call it revolutionary, others deem it avant-garde to speak the sentence uttered by others but with a more flourished tongue and convincing attitude.

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(482 words, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

Zidrou And Aimee De Jongh, Blossoms In Autumn. Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

It is perhaps out of habit that we think of love as one created and owned by teenagers, the image of Romeo and Juliet declaring to the world, albeit with a sense of unnerving non-appropriate behaviour with consideration to their age, that their love is timeless, their love is written in the stars and cannot be contained.

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(407 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Doctor Who: The Good Doctor, Juno Dawson. Book Review.

Liverpool Sound and Visio Rating * * * *

A writer’s experience will always bleed into the story or the article they are engraving into the scene they are creating; nothing happens on paper by accident, each world is chewed over, fought for, and it is with a sense of occasion, of delight, that The Good Doctor, the second of B.B.C. tie-in novels in this particular series of Doctor Who, has been impressed upon the fans by Juno Dawson.

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(425 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)