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Summary: Refreshing!
Review: After reading Everday Matters I felt like I'd had a mini vacation, met some wonderful people, and it ended too soon! Refreshing and inspiring - not just for art, but for life.
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Summary: Neurotic's Notebook
Review: Dannny Gregory's wonderful little book is sensitive love letter to New York City and to his wife. It's a diary with drawings (or vice-versa) of a family tragedy that's chockful of wise and droll observations: about his feelings of insecurity, of paranoia, of joy and of deep commitment. The lucky reader closes the book, inspired and charmed by his life story.
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Summary: A thoughtful gem
Review: Danny Gregory's book is a journal of impressions, discoveries and reflections on coming to grips with the tragic turns life can take. He guides us through his thoughts and feelings in a unique and evocative blend of writing and drawing that is engaging, wry, insightful and unexpected. He confronts the big questions of life as well as it's trivialities with a fresh and open honesty. We aren't treated to pat answers but to a wonderful process of rediscovering the world in a new way. Of not merely looking but seeing. Gregory's delightful drawings and seemingly random notes come together as a memorable and moving reflection on life's accidental gifts.
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Summary: A new way of seeing the world
Review: Danny Gregory's lovely and often startling book reminded me of how important it is to really partake of the world--in all its painful beauty. Through his unique vision, expressed through wry humor and wonderful drawings, he captures the grandeur in small things and the commonplace in matters that could seem unfathomable. With crystalline honesty and unsparing wit he describes how he was transformed by the subway accident that left his wife (who sounds amazing) disabled, and by learning to draw the pictures that helped him negotiate their new life together.
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Summary: Everyday Matters, matters
Review: Every time I get annoyed at something small I think of Danny Gregory's book. Everyday Matters makes you feel glad for the little things in life. Suddenly there is beauty in the kitchen spice rack or a well worn shoe. Everyone who needs a little perspective in their life should get this book.
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Summary: I've ordered multiple copies!
Review: EVERYDAY MATTERS is never far from me, and always a source of inspiration. Danny's writing is engaging and funny and sad and wonderful, and never solipsistic or maudlin -- it's a really generous book, actually, and affecting in unexpected ways. I've been telling everyone I know, and then giving them copies. This book should be read by anyone going through a transition in their life, by every artist, by everyone who needs a reminder to stop and observe and be. Incredible.
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Summary: Special, Intimate, Lovely
Review: Everyday Matters is such a special, intimate, lovely book, it's hard to know where to begin singing its praises. To open the book is to steal a look inside the sketchbook (a.k.a. the heart and mind) of a man who has just realized that drawing might help him see everything more clearly -- including seeing his way into a whole new life, one in which his wife is in a wheelchair. And that man happens to live in and draw pictures of New York City, which he adores. Besides the delights of Gregory's words and images -- which are sometimes funny, and other times poignant -- the book also serves as a nearly overwhelming incentive to pick up a pen and draw. And by drawing, to see objects again for the first time. If by publishing the book Gregory wished to remind people to look at the world around them with fresh, hungry, sensitive hearts and eyes, he has succeeded with this reader.
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Summary: Special, Intimate, Lovely
Review: Everyday Matters is such a special, intimate, lovely book, it's hard to know where to begin singing its praises. To open the book is to steal a look inside the sketchbook (a.k.a. the heart and mind) of a man who has just realized that drawing might help him see everything more clearly -- including seeing his way into a whole new life, one in which his wife is in a wheelchair. And that man happens to live in and draw pictures of New York City, which he adores. Besides the delights of Gregory's words and images -- which are sometimes funny, and other times poignant -- the book also serves as a nearly overwhelming incentive to pick up a pen and draw. And by drawing, to see objects again for the first time. If by publishing the book Gregory wished to remind people to look at the world around them with fresh, hungry, sensitive hearts and eyes, he has succeeded with this reader.
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Summary: A poignant tale
Review: Gregory's crude drawings are reminiscent of Ralph Steadman and Bill Gallo. I particularly liked the whimsical self-portraits, including Happy Hedgehog Gregory. In short, Gregory's journal is intimate without being self-indulgent. It's also cathartic for anyone who has been damaged by tragedy. We're all a work in progress and I applaud Gregory's honest outpouring of emotion.
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Summary: Inspiring!
Review: I am buying this book for every member of my family this Christmas. It's a beautiful book inside and out.
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