Squareathon - September 2020 - Week 3

Day 15

Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry

Day 16

The Mermaid Chair

Sue Monk Kidd

(The story took place on Egret Island)

Day 17

The Time Traveler's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger

The wife in the story was a paper sculptor and this is a very mediocre attempt at a somewhat 3-D paper creation in my sketchbook.  

Day 18

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

Taken very literally.

Day 19 

TheYear of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

Day 20 

Cold Comfort Farm

Stella Gibbons

"She liked Victorian novels.  They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple."

Day 21

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

The crowd at the Festival of the Running of the Bulls.

And with that, we're done with Squareathon 2020.  This was definitely a challenge as I hadn't read most of the books.  But, being able to use Google to search for information (plots synopsis, characters, settings, quotes, etc.) enabled me to persevere.  I'm glad that it was only 21 days.  I think I would say that 14 days would have been better, but that was not my choice. (Although I could have stopped at 14, but I wanted to finished what I had started.)  

I have some card making to catch up on before Inktober starts.  

Squareathon - September 2020 - Week 1

I started the Squareathon on September 1st when it began but I haven't gotten around to posting here until now so I will break it up into 3 posts for the three weeks that it is running for.  This time Mel has chosen book titles as the prompts.  You don't have to had actually read the books (which was a good thing because I haven't read most of these), you just had to create something that would relate to some part of the book - the title, the setting, the subject matter, etc.  I googled the titles and read the synopsis and looked at images for each one to get ideas.  The only hard and fast rule of Squareathon is that the finished product be in the form of a square.  I have a small 5.5 x 5.5 watercolor journal that I've been using for Squarethon.  

Day 1 

The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

Day 2

All Creatures Great and Small

James Herriot

Day 3 

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Day 4 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

Day 5 

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berendt

Day 6

1984

George Orwell

Day 7 

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

That's the first week.  More to come.