the invention of hugo cabret the marvels

There was just something about this twist that made me fall even deeper into it than I did with The Invention of Hugo Cabret or Wonderstruck. Here though he's tweaked his winning style by having almost four hundred uninterrupted pages of illustration followed by two hundred pages of prose with a coda, another fifty pages of illustration. His style of art combined with his prose never fails to entertain, inspire, and uplift.

It's hard to pick a favorite Brian Selznick book in that he is the master of his niche of storytelling. So in this house of make believe, Joseph must distinguish fact from fiction and then decide what is the better way to live? Yet what he knows of his own family's history doesn't add up with the Marvels. The more he learns, the more he hopes that he is related to them. But Joseph is a curious child and from artifacts around the house he starts to learn about the Marvel theatre dynasty. Albert reluctantly lets his nephew stay in the dream world he has created in this house in Spitalfields. A napkin lays askew, and it must always lay askew. A dinner is on the table, but a dinner that was interrupted. It feels trapped not just in another time, but at a specific time. He has only the faintest notion of where Albert Nightingale lives, but cold and ill he arrives on his uncle's doorstep thinking that he might just have seen a horse and carriage.

His parents are abroad so he decides that he will go to his uncle's house in London. In 1990 Joseph Jervis has run away from school. Down the generations until their dynasty ends in 1900. Billy works as a stagehand and set designer, and soon he has a son, and then there is a marriage.

This serendipitous meeting is the beginning of the Marvel theatre dynasty. The painter hired to do the ceiling is so moved by the tale he paints Marcus as an angel looking down over the audience. There he is recognized as the sole survivor of the wreck, as his picture is on the cover of every newspaper, and he enthralls the crew with his tales of the hurricane and of his brother Marcus. When Billy gets to London he is drawn to the construction site of the Royal Theatre and is mesmerized by the painting of the ceiling. Billy even lost his beloved brother Marcus in the wreck. Billy Marvel and his beloved dog are the sole survivors of the sinking of the Kraken which was hit by this force of nature. Book Review 2020 #10 - Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth.Book Review 2020 #9 - Tasha Alexander's In the Sha.Book Review 2020 #8 - Riley Sager's Home Before Dark.Book Review 2020 #7 - Stuart Turton's The 7 1/2 De.Book Review 2020 #6 - Brian Selznick's The Marvels.Book Review 2020 #5 - Si Spurrier's Worst Among Eq.Book Review 2020 #4 - Carol Ryrie Brink's Caddie.Book Review 2020 #3 - Tana French's The Likeness.Book Review 2020 #2 - Suzanne Collins's The Ballad.Book Review 2020 #1 - Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries.

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