I Must Be Dreaming

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Pub Date 24 Oct 2023 | Archive Date 23 Oct 2023
Bloomsbury USA | Bloomsbury Publishing

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A USA TODAY BESTSELLER
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

A Washington Post Best Graphic Book of the Year

#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast’s new graphic narrative, exploring the surreal nighttime world inside her mind—and untangling one of our most enduring human mysteries: dreams.


Ancient Greeks, modern seers, Freud, Jung, neurologists, poets, artists, shamans—humanity has never ceased trying to decipher one of the strangest unexplained phenomena we all experience: dreaming. Now, in her new book, Roz Chast illustrates her own dream world, a place that is sometimes creepy but always hilarious, accompanied by an illustrated tour through “Dream-Theory Land” guided by insights from poets, philosophers, and psychoanalysts alike. Illuminating, surprising, funny, and often profound, I Must Be Dreaming explores Roz Chast’s newest subject of fascination—and promises to make it yours, too.

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

A Washington Post Best Graphic Book of the Year

#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning New...


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Roz Chast is Queen of wonderful thoughtful-provoking graphic art novels.
The quality of her work fantastic and brilliant.
I love her!!

“I Must Be Dreaming” is Roz’s new creation. The book will be released in October 2023.
I’ll purchase the hardcopy then. I have a *Chast-Collection* (her books are always a hit choice to share with our Airbnb guests who visit)

In the meantime I read the advance copy on my iPhone (no kidding)….
I read more than half of it when I was at the hospital yesterday for about four hours having tests - blood work, and a pneumonia shot.
Ha—
….and I thought I was just going to see my internist because she called me and saying it was time.
This slim book gave me much pleasure between a screaming baby and a man - also screaming with a bad case of Tourette’s syndrome. ( poor guy)…..
I was so happy to finally get back home - eat - and begin watching ‘The Wire’ on Netflix
(Thank you Jennifer)- needed something to dive into after ‘Succession’)
Then this morning I finished the rest of this gem at home.

The topic [about our dreams] is interesting. I don’t think about my dreams much. But my husband has wild ones all the time. I’m a little jealous.

Roz writes:
“This book is dedicated to the Dream District of our brains, that weird and uncolonized area where anything can happen, from the sublime to the mundane to the ridiculous
to the off-the-charts bats”.
[fire, guilt, Art, past, My Mother, money, etc.]

“We are all creative geniuses in our sleep”.
Isn’t that the truth!

*Table of Contents*
….Reoccurring dreams
….Lucid dreams
….Celebrity dreams
….Cartoon-idea dreams
….Nightmares
….Body Horrors
….Good dreams
….Everyday dreams
….Dream, fragments, or ones that got away
….A note about the dreams
….A brief theory through Dream-theory land
Recommended reading

“According to many people dreams, as a conversational topic, should be avoided, along with aches and pains.
Only shrinks are interested, and maybe not even them”.

Why dreaming is so great…..
…..it’s free entertainment
…..you don’t need special clothes or equipment
…..etc. (a list of other funnies)… plus we can add our own.

Wild dreams about….
….A room with five hot tubs - for actor’s between takes (fully clothed)
….Ted Lasso
….swans dancing
….awkward moments
….fearful situations
….grossed out dreams
….talking mango?
….green beans
….a sensitive visits from someone who died
….fearless graceful roller skaters
….close call significance
…. disaster strikes
….messages from God
….etc. etc.

This is a tiny powerhouse adorable book — about 130 pages.

What’s ‘not’ to love about Roz Chast?
Nothin!!!

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Roz Chast takes us into her dream world and the results are pure Roz; hilarious, smart, a little neurotic, and full of heart. I'll never think of my Aunt Sharon in the same way again.

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