Mainly books, but also other pleasing things
Posted in Art history, Book Reviews, Fiction, Historical Fiction on Aug 5th, 2010
I didn’t write about Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett as soon as I’d finished reading it, which is a pity because I only made a few notes whilst reading and now my memory of it is fading fast. It took me some time to get really involved in the story, which is a [...]
Posted in Art, England, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Wordless Wednesday on Jul 21st, 2010
Photos from my husband’s phone. A Wordless Wednesday post
Posted in Art, Jigsaws, Wordless Wednesday on Feb 24th, 2010
The Fighting Temeraire Hosted by Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Art, Wordless Wednesday on Aug 5th, 2009
Hosted by Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Art, Art history, Book Reviews, Impressionists, Non-fiction, Paintings, Support Your Library Challenge 2009 on Apr 21st, 2009
Non-fiction books often take me a while to read and Sue Roe’s The Private Lives of the Impressionists is no exception; not however, because it’s difficult to read or boring, but simply because I decided to read it slowly. The Impressionists were a mixed bunch, including Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cézanne, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, and [...]
Posted in Art, Art history, Books, Impressionists, Library Loot, Non-fiction on Mar 14th, 2009
I don’t need to borrow any more books, but I had to go to the library to return The Gargoyle (see here) and of course then I couldn’t leave without at least looking at the books. This week I concentrated on non-fiction as I already have a few novels on the go. I read non-fiction much [...]
Posted in Art, Books, It's Tuesday - Where Are You?, Teaser Tuesdays on Mar 10th, 2009
Today I’m in Dante’s Inferno, an invisible spectator following Dante and Virgil as they make their way down into Hell. Charon, the boatman ferries the dead across the river Acheron to the Hall of Death with the dread words “Lay down all hope, you that go in by me” has let us enter from a word [...]
Posted in Art history, Book Reviews, Fiction on Feb 27th, 2009
I’ve just finished reading Marina Fiorato’s new novel, The Madonna of the Almonds, which will be out on 14 May. It is a love story above all, but there is so much more as well. It’s set in Italy in the 16th century, about a young widow, Simonetta di Saronno, struggling to save her home, who [...]
Posted in Art, It's Tuesday - Where Are You?, Paintings, Teaser Tuesdays on Feb 24th, 2009
Today I’m in Paris in the 1860s with the Impressionists. Paris is overrun with art students wanting to exhibit their paintings in the annual exhibition in the Salon des Beaux Arts. Today it’s 17 May 1863 and everyone is crowded into the exhibition of rejected works called the Salon des Refuses, where people are shocked by the [...]
Posted in Art, Books, Library Loot on Feb 13th, 2009
I went to the library yesterday to pick up a reservation, The Private Lives of the Impressionists by Sue Roe. I’d written about the short course on the Impressionists I’m doing and Litlove recommended this book. It has a lovely front cover showing part of Eugene Manet on the Isle of Wight by Berthe Morisot. [...]
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