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My literature hot take is that the sandman comics should be read alongside great epics from every period of history as the best modern answer/version/equivalent of a great complex epic myth cycle. Rereading the series again is just making me more and more sure this is one of the best things ever written like it‘s just sublime (and sad and dark and spooky)

#scarathlon #skeletoncrew

Continuing with this great series, in this issue, Dream and Delirium (my favorite endless character) go on a mission to find their brother, Destruction. Strange things happen along the way and a price is to be paid in order for them to find their brother. Wonderful sad story and the graphics were ok but the story outshines the graphics in this one.

Delirium misses Destruction and tries to recruit her siblings to find him and bring him home. Dream is the only one who joins her. At first, it‘s for selfish reasons. The trouble is, Destruction does NOT wish to be found. This volume covers their journey and reveals more of the Endless‘ backstory. It‘s interesting to see the changes in Dream. Poor little Delirium. I love her character.

Delirium wants to find her brother Destruction who has been missing some hundred yrs. She asks several of her siblings before Dream agrees to go on the search with her. This is their journey to try and find their brother.

2nd book finished for #20in4 @Andrew65
#BookSpin September @TheAromaofBooks

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ this might be my favorite volume so far!

Delirium and Dream go looking for Destruction, who doesn't want to be found.

I loved Delirium's reactions to our world and am intrigued by the headstone on the island. I remember her from the French Revolution story in “Fables & Reflections“ but do we know anything more about her?

Oh no...

This is definitely my favourite to date.
I LOVE Delirium, her character just makes me happy. Her crazy, colourful composition awakes some child-like spirt in me that squeal with delight every time she appears on a page.
We also get to know "the prodigal" and see what he's been up to, something I've been curious about ever since we first learned about his existence.
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Day 2 of #20in4 was an excellent day for me.
I read a total of 8h15m and finished all the half read books I had.
I'm taking the next few minutes to add a few more books to my stack, and then I'm off to bed.

@Andrew65

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘷𝘰𝘭. 7: 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘧 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 follows Dream and Delirium as they try to find their brother, Destruction. This volume was incredibly boring. I had no desire nor care about the plot, I just finished for the sake of finishing for the series. Delirium is annoying especially when she goes around whining and begging her siblings to help her find their brother. Maybe he doesn‘t want to be found! Leave him alone!

My boyfriend has lots of work calls to make in our flat again so it‘s another day of socially distant loitering in the foyles cafe. I‘m playing the age old game of ‘how long can one pot of tea last before I admit I need to pay for another one?‘ I feel less bad about it when it‘s so empty that I‘m not taking the seat away from anyone though, and I have bought a book. Spent the morning doing stressful life admin, now chilling with Neil Gaiman.

Starting another great Sandman book in front of the new fish tank 😃

“The stuff you bring back from dreams is free.” #stuff #QuotsyFeb20

Perusing my limited collection of graphic novels I found mad sans the -ness suffix.

#maymadness #minichallenge #speechbubblesearch

@Clwojick @TheReadingMermaid @RadicalReader

“I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend.” #Star #QuotsyMay19

Another in this series completed...enjoyed the “family” dynamics laid out in this one.

My cousin took me for a hike and my first White Spot experience (they brought our food to the CAR, on a LONG, SKINNY TRAY that hooked onto the windows), and when I got home a bunch of people had tagged me about today's Sandman Universe news.

I have a lot of emotions. THOSE WRITERS. I can't wait to learn who the artists are, and to read everything, and to just FEEL over this whole thing.

Please, creators. Give me material over which I can FEEL.

Thank you fellow Littens for all the support.

BRIEF LIVES is my favourite volume. Maybe. Ask me again after I've reread THE KINDLY ONES.

I mean, it's a sibling road trip story. It corrals together all these tendrils that've been swirling around for hundred and hundreds of pages. It answers questions, then raises more.

We meet Destruction, and he's pretty great.

I sound calm and rational about it all. I'm not. This is fucking wonderful, profanity 100% necessary. #comics

I'm too tired to stay upright, so I've tucked myself into bed with some reading material. I'll also tackle a few issues of X-MEN FOREVER if I can stay awake long enough.

I love most everything about BRIEF LIVES, but I think the thing I love the very most is how Destruction's just hanging around with a talking dog, creating stuff even though he's really frickin bad at it. #comics

I've always loved these panels. #comics

I think about this a lot, because I smell and taste things in dreams all the time. #comics

The thing about BRIEF LIVES is, there're about a million little MOMENTS that hit me. Like Destruction being all sweet with Despair during the plague. #comics

Neil Gaiman came to my city a few years back, and it took me all of forty-five seconds to realize which book I had to bring to the signing.

My friend and I spent over seven hours in the store, listening to him speak and waiting in a twisty-ass line and talking to other fans. (They were all like, "Why don't you have ABSOLUTE SANDMAN?" And I was like, "Because I already shelled out $200+ for NON-ABSOLUTE SANDMAN.") It was wonderful.

In the Brief Lives arch, Dream and Delirium are hunting their retired brother Destruction. The look up all his know acquaintances. This leads them to an awesomely named strip club where Ishtar, the Babylonian goddess of love and war, works.

After Dream leaves, Ishtar decides to really dance and the whole place crumbles around her.

Ladies dancing - Day 9 - #12DaysofChristmas

#allthefeels is it? I tried to choose between this bit in Sandman: Brief Lives, the end of Lord of the Rings, the end of Cloud Atlas, the end of The Book of Lost Things, and the end of "Jacob de Zoet." #fiestyfeb #day22 @RealLifeReading

I suppose this is all about change - Delirium looking for her brother, Destruction; Dream resolving his relationship with his son, Orpheus. Have I said I love this series? Every time I review one of them, you say? Well, sod it, I love it anyway!!

"And perhaps his spirit will move into the cherry tree, and in spring the new blossoms will be his, and in summer the cherries will taste of true poetry and song."

The tree on Orpheus' island. #trees #tree #12daysofXmasPhoto #day8 @LibrarianRyan

"I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here I can pretend. I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend."

"Wisdom is in the celebration and memorialization of the temporal." - Peter Straub, from his afterword in Sandman: Brief Lives.

Tonight's recommendation is my favorite of the Sandman series, Brief Lives. I will also always believe that this is the book that should be adapted into a movie. It is the only one in my opinion that is easily accessible to a wide audience. #brieflives #sandman #neilgaiman #graphicnovels #comics

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