I just finished reading The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick on an overcast Thursday afternoon. This book actually belongs to Shreyas Krishnan, who unlike me, prefers to BUY books and treasure them rather than devour them sneakily in the store itself
The Invention... is a thoroughly mesmerising read as it brings together the best things about pictures and words and neither of the two are given the short end. I just love it when an author is able to blend together fact, fiction, images, words, history, cinema, characters, mystery, story, print with a dash of poignancy and make all these gears work like...
...well, clockwork!
Then again, this is probably the first time I've experienced it.
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