The news feels unrelentingly bleak at the moment. I don't know about you, but I for one could use a quiet distraction. Since the pages between certain iconic grey covers never fail to offer just that, I thought a weekend-long readathon celebrating all things Persephone Books would be a good place to start. I'm happy to... Continue Reading →
After taking a look at the unread books sitting on my bookshelves, I thought it would be fun to compile a list of 20 titles that I'd most like to pick up in 2020. This isn't a super strict TBR list that I'm going to absolutely hold myself to out of fear of punishment from... Continue Reading →
Picasso, Pablo. Guernica. 1937. Oil on canvas. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain.
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme created by The Broke and the Bookish blog, and now hosted at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's topic is: Most Anticipated Book Releases For the First Half of 2020 It seems like the first half of 2020 is set to be an embarrassment of riches when... Continue Reading →
Currin, John. Thanksgiving. 2003. Oil on canvas. Tate Modern, London, UK.
Gardner, Daniel. The Three Witches from Macbeth (Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne; Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire; Anne Seymour Damer). 1775. Gouache and chalk. National Portrait Gallery, London, UK.
Tissot, James. October. 1877. Oil on canvas. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, CA.
Giorgione. The Tempest. c. 1506-08. Oil on canvas. Galleria dell'Accademia,Venice, Italy.
Mason, Mary Townsend. The Afternoon Boat. 1931. Oil on canvas. Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA, US.
Botello-Barros, Ángel. View of San Juan Bay. 1946. Oil on canvas. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico Collection, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
