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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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Book – Mucha (P. Bade)



Book – Mucha
Author: Patrick Bade
Score: 7/10
Year: 2011
Publisher: Parkstone
ISBN 978-1-906-981-16-7
Pages 255

Language: French 

*23rd book in Goodreads reading challenge*

 This small book (17.1X2.9X15.3 CM) presents a a non-exhaustive look into Mucha's life (1860-1939), starting by a  page-long chronology, and followed every other subsequent page in details of his life and his career. 

Each of the text pages is divided by text, 3 small close-ups of the art piece presented in the opposite page, as well as their title, material and dates. 

120 of his pieces are thus presented, in chronological order ; I wish they had been left to the second half of the book, and that the first would've been pure text. Indeed, none of the pieces correspond to the text, and it becomes quickly very distracting to try reading their descriptions alongside the main text - especially since that part isn't even divided into chapters, and flows naturally as an essay. 

I did like the flow between telling the story and quoting Mucha and others who knew him, and enjoyed discovering more about his life, as I didn't know enough about him. 

His art is exquisite, and the final wish would be for a bigger book, because, frankly, 17.1X15.3 format does no justice to any of it. 

An 8-pages long alphabetical list of the illustrations finishes this small book, generally enjoyable, as long as I read the texts and the descriptions separately. 


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