B:

A Year in Plagues and Pencils by Edward Carey

My lovely sister-in-law JoBee writes an excellent book review blog called jaffareadstoo.  When she recommends a book I know it is worth reading. So over Christmas I read "B: A Year in Plagues and Pencils".  At the beginning of lockdown, the author committed himself, without really thinking about it very much, to drawing and posting a portrait every day as long as lockdown lasted. The book is about the portraits that illustrated lockdown, that were pure escapism from lockdown, that were drawn in desperation when he hit a brick wall, about how he missed his mother (he was "stuck" in Austin, Texas), about how he missed London, etc. He was talking about drawing, but he could have been talking about taking photos for blip, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.