Another 209 pages down, which is a little misleading. Forbidden Fruit: A History of Women and Books in Art is a very large coffee table type book. It’s beautiful and interesting and I would own it if I were a rich woman. I also need to remember to find a copy of The Tale of the Genji, which I still have never read.
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Miss Garnet’s Angel started out as a disappointment but improved as the story went along… Much like Miss Garnet herself.
Julia Garnet starts out as a pretty unlikeable retired, spinster, British school teacher. Heck she’s not even a dyke to give her some interesting quality. She’s a stick in the mud, a little too high and mighty and just plain boring. Until she goes to Venice. Until she discovers the Angel, Raphael.
The parallel story about Tobit helped move Miss Garnet’s story along. Not a bad book, if you give it time to develop.
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When I read a blog or a magazine or a newspaper and see a book recommended (or when TW does this) I will do one of two things. I’ll either save the name of the book in an Evernote folder to reserve at the library when our book stash gets low. Or, I’ll head to Amazon, find the book and then use a library bookmarklet to instantly find it at my library and reserve it. Occasionally, our library won’t have the book so I immediately save it to my Amazon wish list. I’ll go back a few months later, to my wishlist, and try again to reserve it at my library. Sometimes I am successful, other times not so much.
A few weeks ago, I really cleaned out my Amazon wishlist. If my library still didn’t have the book, I used the online inter-library loan request form and then happily deleted the book from my wishlist. Nice, eh?
One of the books that arrived from the nice folks at University of South Florida was Snapshots of Bloomsbury. Surprisingly interesting.
Thinking about how Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell took photos and organized their albums, and as an extension, how women did such things in the late 1800s when photography and photo albums were just becoming popular. Family photo albums were women’s art.
Really interesting glimpse, visual glimpse, into that world through photography.
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The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece was an interesting book. The research, the mystery, the restoration, the painting – all interesting and easy to read. No bogging down in a ton of boring research, no heavy duty terminology that only an art history major would know.
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