Exciting discovery
I am back to pondering people’s personal tastes in reading. I was thinking about the fact that, despite the many books I read every year (my Goodreads total is approaching my year’s goal of 120 quickly enough that… Read More
Category: Fantasy, Speculative fictionTags: art-related, new favorite, Series
Reading and art
I’ve been working sporadically on a series of paintings of people reading, and so I always have an eye out for paintings like that made by other people. This one is from my Facebook friend, the talented Milind… Read More
Category: FictionTags: art-related
Historical fic for middle school
The Gallery, by Laura Marx Fitzgerald, was a sweet, if slight, middle-grade book with some historical context that was fun to read about. It is billed as an art “mystery” taking place in the Roaring ’20s, although there… Read More
Category: Children's fiction, Historical, Young Adult FictionTags: art-related, Stand-alone
Birdie
The books of Kate Morton are at once endlessly fascinating and absolutely maddening. Each of them is a lengthy 450 to 650 pages, and they are as chock full of detail as any leisurely reader in search of… Read More
Category: Historical, Literary Fiction, MysteryTags: art-related
Two steps forward
I was looking for something a little lighter to read after my foray into post-apocalyptic zombie-land, and I realized that I had never gone back to pick up the sequel to the delightful The Rosie Project by Graeme… Read More
Category: Realistic Fiction, Relationship FictionTags: art-related
Books for artists
Don’t you think that everyone likes to read a book with a protagonist or supporting character who shares something in common with them? As mentioned earlier in my review of The Art Forger, my particular extracurricular interest is… Read More
Category: Historical, Literary Fiction, Realistic FictionTags: art-related
Pastiche
The definition of “pastiche” is “an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period.” I am not accusing B. A. Shapiro of ripping off another author; rather, I am praising her skill… Read More
Category: Realistic FictionTags: art-related, mainstream, Stand-alone
The Book Adept 