The Museum of Intangible Things by Wendy Wunder

It’s the very thin afterthought, and really only exists in the last few paragraphs of the whole book. Now the galaxy is a bit different for me (by the way, isn’t it cool? I downloaded a free trial of photoshop elements and it kicks butt as far as the potential to really get the nuances of color and texture I’m searching for), and it’s far less prominent than the first two colors. And then there’s a muddy yellow – yellow is something I usually associate with happiness and joy – and the muddiness is for how distorted and convoluted the happiness the main characters are pursuing becomes. It’s dim and reading it is like you’re walking through shadows, trying to understand what’s really going on. The first color I see is a dark gray, because the story is actually a lot darker than the real cover suggests. What colors do I associate with the book?

The Saturated Reads book for this week is… The Museum of Intangible Things by Wendy Wunder.

Basically, imagine the saying, “I feel blue,” but applied to the entire color spectrum. Every Wednesday, I’ll pick a book or character, and show a palette of the colors I see or associate with the book/character. After some discussion on the comment threads, particularly with Oh! The Books, I was pointed to something called synesthesia, and I have a type that connects emotions with colors. A few months ago, I posted about how I wish more authors wrote using color in their descriptions, since I attach emotions and even characters to color.