Ter's Video Summary #7 (Her favorite books)

Ter's new video is about her favorite books from all the time.

Ways of Seeing - By John Berger

This is a book that was made as a transcript of a documentary that goes by the same name. First thing you can notice is the book starts in the cover with the first chapter, and John Berger does that to make a point about how even when you have a lot of text before a picture, you still look at the picture first.

In the book, he also expands on how every piece of art in the past was unique and special, but in present time you can have whatever painting you want in your backpack, notebooks, the wall of your house, etc.

Dreams - By Comediants

This book seems like it is empty, but, you can read it by pointing a lantern to the pages, because this book was designed to be read in darkness.

Dreams is a compilation of short stories (that often don't have a happy ending) mainly related to doing things in secret and because it's fiction, it has plot twists about how bad something like that could end in that fantasy world.

Songs of Innocence and of Experience - By William Blake

Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a poemary about abandoned children. The special thing of this book is: every poem has a special and beautiful drawing by William Blake, and the words of the poem are like part of the drawings, and everything is well-integrated and fluent.

Exercises in Style - By Raymond Queaneu

This book tells the story of a guy who was in a bus full of people, and he saw a man in that bus with a coat and a hat complaining about being pushed. Then, at another time in that day, he met again coincidentally the guy with a coat and a hat, in this occasion at a train station.

This story is told in the book in a 100 differents styles and ways, for example, metaphorically, as a surprise, in a retrograde way, etc.

Fray Perico y su Borrico - By Juan Muñoz Martín

This is a spanish book that Ter read when she was a child. It is about a group of Franciscan monks, that was founded by Saint Francis of Assisi, so they have a statue of that saint where they live. Perico is a guy that wants to join them in their convent.

When Perico joined them, he was the only one that talked to the Saint Francis' statue, and the statue always talked back to him.

Perico is an innocent guy, that do things wrong without wanting to do them wrong.

The book in general is about Perico doing silly things that ended in issues for the convent, and then Saint Francis trying to fix Perico's mistakes.

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Hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I did writing it!