Reading: Day of the Triffids
As most of you probably know, I ended up getting covid, as have the other members of my household. The three of us are doing well but we were laid up for about a week forcing ourselves to take things as easy as possible. In that time, I tried to mostly occupy myself with drawing, reading, and watching films. As it happens, I'd just acquired both the Day of the Triffids DVD as well as the novel it was based on. My copy of Day of the Triffids, with a beautiful dust jacket cover by Gary Viskupik When I was a child, I was absolutely terrified by and obsessed with Day of the Triffids. My family had it on VHS and I think I was about at the age where I liked to scare myself with movies. I had a highly active imagination and it didn't take a lot to scare me- just a good concept was enough and my brain would connect the dots. The movie of course, to an adult, is a pretty tame affair, but the concept of it all is still compelling. The book illustrates a lot of the horror mor