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Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat

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Probably about seven months (off and on), with more than half that time spent thinking, drawing, reading and just looking around with the book in mind. The volume of notes and sketches far outweighs that of the final artwork, which is itself just the final expression of that whole evolutionary process. It's a long time in retrospect, albeit not unusual for picture book illustrators, but I don't think about it much when I'm actually doing it. It takes as long as it takes. I also didn’t care much for K. nor the other main character of Chloe. Chloe felt especially thin and seemingly existed as a love-interest/sounding board for K.’s detective work, who at the best of times was barely tolerable. I didn’t feel the slightest chemistry between the two compared to what I felt the author had been trying to portray. I swear, if I ever have to hear the exchange, “Are you OK?” followed by “I’m fine” again, it will be too soon.

Keeping it spoiler free, the characters kept running into these "clues" over and over. In fact, the majority of the book was our main character, K walking around the Seattle area discovering clues forever and ever. What's even better? The clues really had no bearing on the final outcome of the story. There are many many authors that are SPECTACULAR at weaving all these tidbits into the final showdown but Miles, sadly, did not do that here in Rabbits, not even close. the majority of the book just felt like unnecessary and boring filler. I got so bored just following K around as she discovered more discrepancies and fainted 10000000 times. I was about to DNF it and I really wish I had now, it didn't get better, just like it usually never does. Why can most of us readers never listen to our DNF This section possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. ( May 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Some of the paintings seem to owe some allegiance to traditional "fine art". For instance, some of your renderings seem to echo Fred Williams or Brett Whiteley. What artists or paintings did you draw on for inspiration? In Rabbit, Run, I liked writing in the present tense. You can move between minds, between thoughts and objects and events with a curious ease not available to the past tense. I don't know if it is clear to the reader as it is to the person writing, but there are kinds of poetry, kinds of music you can strike off in the present tense. [19] Zhang, Min. “An Analysis of Rabbit’s Unhappy Marriage in John Updike’s Rabbit, Run.” ICCESE 2017, pp.282–284. https://doi.org/10.2991/iccese-17.2017.72. Accesses 04 Apr. 2021.If I didn't know people that lived lives like Ms. Pat described, I would think that this book was made up. I had never heard of Ms. Pat, I didn't know who she was or why she would have written a book. It turns out she's a standup comedian, actress, and writer. Science Fiction and Fantasy is not my Genre. I read the blurb about this book and it sounded interesting. I decided to give it a try. This was a mistake. I am not the right reader for this book. I lost interest trying to figure out what was happening. Was K, in an alternate universe or was that fake? It was based on Science, Quantum Physics and such. I honestly just could not get drawn into the story enough to care and try and figure out what was happening. Listen, kids. I’m not saying I condone a life of crime. But when your habit is books and you love them sooooo so much that you just have to resort to stealing them.. I mean, who hasn’t thought about it, amirite?? Ralfy Rabbit is one such bookworm and this is his story – as far as rabbit books go, this one is perfect for bunny and book lovers alike. Watership Down by Richard Adams

So begins a crazy odyssey for K and his friends that occasionally crosses over into other dimensions or realities. K is warned, 'There are facts, lines, patterns, and laws beneath the world you recognize.' Compounding the problem of the repetition was the unreality of it all. If you never really know what’s real and what’s not, it’s very difficult to become invested in or attached to any of the characters. While the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon and Mandela effect discussions were interesting, the happenings here were extreme to the point of absurdity. If a friend of yours in real life started telling you that they were seeing connections between unrelated events the way K and Chloe do, you would call to get them psychological help. Both of those, but more often something in between - intuition? – feeling around for what you somehow know to be there. I do have a conscious strategy to illustrate tangentially, doing something quite removed from what the text is doing without losing the reference, so the mental circuit for the reader is quite convoluted, and therefore exciting. For example, the line "They ate our grass" is associated with giant industrial fish-head machines stripping the landscape. The reader can't make the connection through the most obvious word-picture recognition (ie. bunnies eating grass), but have to go off-course a bit, which hopefully fires off some otherwise dormant neurons. Then you get a certain strange chemistry between words and pictures, an interesting tension which the word 'illustration' doesn't adequately define. Rabbit is faced with human challenges in his marriage with a drunken wife, an overbearing mother, the death of his newborn daughter and the pregnancy resulting from his infidelity. It is a general reoccurrence that Rabbit has religious thoughts or conversations and “Harry can be considered as a religious. It is because of the loss of faith that causes his first escape. When he finds that life is meaningless, he abandons his wife and children, and leaves home to seek that self under the guidance of God. But his religion is not strong; he just treats it as a kind of spiritual sustenance to escape from the reality and a tool to solve practical problems. When religion cannot solve problems for him, and indicate a way out, his faith in God begins to shake,” (Zhang, 283). Nothing is consistent in Rabbit's life except for his need to run from all of life's problems.Rabbit is always running, searching and questing for meaning. But while at times he finds himself enthralled with people, like his relationship with Ruth, his conversations with Eccles, and his initial return to his family, in the end Rabbit is dissatisfied and takes flight. Transience appears to be implicit in the character.

Is there a conflict trying to satisfy both an adult and a juvenile audience? Is this something you think about when you start working on a piece? I can’t write a review on this right now!!!! My brain has been turned to absolute mush!!!! Like exploded by the complicated awesomeness of this book. Full rtc!! The philosopher Daniel Dennett makes extended reference to the Rabbit novels in his paper "The Self as a Center of Narrative Gravity". [21] Film adaptation [ edit ] I wanted to like this story much more than I did but as I read, it began to feel pretty repetitive--like teens on a scavenger hunt with a little woo-woo spookiness thrown in. I don't know, maybe I just wasn't the right receptive audience. After all, I stopped playing games with Tetris.Thank you so much to NetGalley, Random House Publishing Group- Ballantine, and Terry Miles for allowing me to read this for my honest and unbiased opinion. Sooo good!!!! You got that right - I'm too scared to calculate how much I make an hour on these things! I guess Rabbits offered the potential for some really sustained inventiveness, more so than any other commissioned work I've so far encountered. There was a lot of creative freedom, with both editor (Helen Chamberlin) and author pretty much handing me a license to do whatever I wanted. The only constraint was this very simple text with a minimum of descriptive content, much less anything visual; 'The rabbits came many grandparents ago, they made their own houses, they ate our grass' and so on. Enormous potential to construct an entire universe from first principles, both conceptually and visually. How Ms. Pat overcame drugs, prison and abuse — and rose to comedy stardom - March 8, 2018 - by Geoff Edgers

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