Shyl is a Fore-edge painter and book artist based in Chennai, India. This is a watercolor painting on the book edges of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke 📚 Tags - #shylockedherbooks #foredgepainting #foreedge #booktok #giftideas #books #harrypotter #lotr #booklover #readinglist #smallbusiness #entrepreneur #madeinindia #buylocal #handmade #unique #handpainted #classic #surprisegift #writingcommunity #valentinesday #giftsforher #giftsforhim #reading #reader #bookish #bookworm #bookrecommendations

The original paperback my commissioned project
The Fore-edge painting coming soon...

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Shyl is a Fore-edge painter and book artist based in Chennai, India. This is a watercolor painting on the book edges of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell 📚 Tags - #shylockedherbooks #foredgepainting #foreedge #booktok #giftideas #booklover #readinglist #smallbusiness #handmade #unique #handpainted #classic #surprisegift #writingcommunity #giftsforher #giftsforhim #reading #reader #bookish #bookworm #bookrecommendations

Work in progress 🌟 Fore-edge book painting 🖌️
Can you guess the book?

Commissions slots open: www.shylockstudio.com/commission-r...

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Have you seen Fore-edge paintings? Books I painted in 2024 PART 4 🖌️

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"She had passed three years in a distant corner of her mind. [...]. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion." A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini #abookidgift

I received this book yesterday and I'm currently on chapter 5. I already feel pity for the main character, but it's a great read so far! It made me laugh a few times. Can't wait to finish it!

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Children of Time (Children of Time, #1) A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last …

One of the best sci-fi books I've read in the last decade, definitely #abookidgift :

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The cover of Ross Gay’s Inciting Joy.

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"His orders were being carried out even before they were given, even before he thought of them, and they always went beyond what he would have dared have them do. Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction." One Hundred Years of Solitude, by G.G.Marquez #abookidgift

Madeline L’Engle A wrinkle in time (also, the whole trilogy )
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I recently picked up The History of Rome: Volume I (Books 1-8) by Titus Livy and was wondering if this is a good starting point for exploring Roman history. I'd love any recommendations, and I'd be especially grateful if anyone could help find some recommendations online!!

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I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. It was the early summer of 1945, and we walked through the streets of a Barcelona trapped beneath ashen skies as dawn poured over Rambla de Santa Mónica in a wreath of liquid copper. The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón

One of my favorite books of all time, The Shadow of the Wind, starts with one of my favorite opening lines

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I’m re-reading The Black Swan to sharpen thinking on unknown unknowns
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"The land bore under iron, and under iron gradually died; for it was not loved or hated, it had no prayers or curses." The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck #abookidgift

For those out there who want to recommend and discuss books, I've created a feed called 'The Books We'd Gift' (and its twin feed, 'The Books We'd Gift: Hot'). Join us and interact using #abookidgift