memorial

Memorial (Simply Read Books)
$16.95
An inspiration for art exploration, Shaun Tan creates wonderful montages and collages that carry a message to enrich and extend the text. This is a fine book from Australia, honouring the soldiers who fell and the memorials that were built for them, illustrating the threads of oral history that are passed through a family, and questioning "progress" and modern convenience in the town planning processes. Excellent material as social Studies and the Language Arts overlap and complement each other.

Memorial Keychain Urn / Vial with Cross Charm
$3.59

SS MEMORIAL SENTIMENT RING - 7
$39.99
The ring is beautiful - fits true to my size - I just wish the words on the inside, "Until We Meet Again" we actually engraved on the outside - the band is a solid silver with just a tiny gold teardrop - but I love it the way it is and wear it in memory of my loving husband. Thanks!

Memorial: A Novel
$16.00
I'd read Bruce Wagner's last book ('Still Holding'?) and was on the fence about whether I liked him or not, but heard so much good stuff about this book that I decided to try him again, and thank god i did. This is on most levels an absolutely amazing work, an incredibly ambitious book that tackles an incredible number of 'big issues' while still creating characters that make you want to care about and see what happens to them (even if you don't like them!). There are four main characters, one of whom, Joan, is an architect, and it is in her chapters that Wagner truly shines. The absolute depth of the man's knowledge, writing, and prose literally wore me out, I frequently took breaks after the 'Joan' chapters simply because I needed to process all that Wagner had just thrown at me, and that is a good thing! The last novelist I experienced that kind of 'tiredness' from reading was David Foster Wallace!! Towards the end of the book there are some events that stretch the limits of credulity, but I won't discuss further because they are spoilers. But it still didn't dim the power of this incredible work for me, or diminish my respect for the incredible book i'd just read. This might be genius, I'm still digesting it! Definitely going to go back and read more Bruce Wagner. This may not be for everyone, but if you are looking for a 'big novel' to challenge you that is also a page turner, give this a shot! I was amazed...