Ep. 342 Solaris Libri?

Bookbinding

In bookbinding this week we have, for your visual pleasure, a book One Year in the making.

Solaris Libri. This is, I’m assuming, Latin for Solar Book. (If Google translate is accurate with dead languages.)

It is an A6 blank notebook of five signatures of five folios each for a total of 100 pages. The only printing in the entire book is the title pages: Solaris Libri and under that Exposed April 1, 2025; Re-covered April 30, 2026. It has a built-in bookmark that is a silvery yellow as is the cover, of course, to reflect its connection to the sun.

I made it and then taped book board bits to the front and back covers. Then I taped it to my studio window for a year allowing the sun to do its job of fading the uncovered book cloth while keeping the book cloth under the book board bits their original color.

After a year of staring at the sun, I was surprised how little it changed. The band of original book cloth yellow on the back didn’t look too bad. It changed, but not by that much.

Fiction

I’ve been working on two novels. One is quick and short. One is longer and more involved. The first one is The Madrid Marital Murder Mystery. It’s a detective story of a married couple investigating murders in Spain. So far. They might move soon. He’s an American, she’s Spanish.

The second one is Dmitry the Scavenger about a man who finds things when no one is looking and sells them to whoever wants them. His dream is to move to Sicily where it’s warmer and more 

relaxing than Moscow. 

If you listen to the Tedorigawa Podcast you can hear the first chapter of The Madrid Marital Murder Mystery.

And, yes, I’m still experimenting with cover designs for both books.

Talkies / Flicks / Videos

We have no new flicks to push today, but a brand new one is in the editing stage but it’s just not ready yet.

You can, of course, check out dozens or more of my other videos at Tedorigawa Bookmakers.  

Books

Rie, the 36-year-old electrical engineer, and Nagi, the about 80-yer-old retired high school kokugo teacher, randomly met in January and develop their friendship over the course of a year. 

Other people involved are Harumi, Rie’s free-spirited co-worker who wants to marry someone and can materialize wherever she wants anytime she wants.

Tadao is also Nagi’s former student and dated Rie. He’s a manga artist who owns a bar where he does his drawing and writing. His mother, Junko, owns the bar where Rie and Nagi often meet. His manga is about the strangers he meets at his bar.

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