This blank lined journal makes for a perfect gift. Blank lined 110 pages.

This blank lined journal makes for a perfect gift. Blank lined 110 pages.

This blank lined journal makes for a perfect gift. Blank lined 110 pages.

This blank lined journal makes for a perfect gift. Blank lined 110 pages.

Charlie O'Shields is the creator of Doodlewash®, founder of World Watercolor Month in July, and host of the Sketching Stuff podcast. Every single day, for over three years, he created a watercolor illustration and wrote a short essay about whatever came to mind that day and posted it on his blog. These are some of the collected favorites along with some brand new musings. With over 180 illustrations, this book is part personal memoir and sometimes just a randomly fun romp through the sillier bits of this crazy world we all inhabit. Written to take on the impossible task of inspiring creativity, unleashing your inner child, and instilling hope, it will, at the very least, make you smile and touch your heart.

Jim Diamond, rugged, plain and uncharismatic, was on his way to attend his own surprise 39th birthday party when his car broke down in the pouring rain. Later that night a guest is found stabbed to death at the party. Why? And why is someone interested in his discovery earlier that evening?

Birthday Girl is a beguiling, exquisitely satisfying short story . A taste of master storytelling, published to celebrate Murakami's 70th birthday. She waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. She always worked Fridays, but if things had gone according to plan on that particular Friday, she would have had the night off. One rainy Tokyo night, a waitress's uneventful twentieth birthday takes a strange and fateful turn when she's asked to deliver dinner to the restaurant's reclusive owner. Birthday Girl is a beguiling, exquisitely satisfying taste of master storytelling, published to celebrate Murakami's 70th birthday. Birthday Girl is also available in Birthday Stories and Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.