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In Claude & Camille, Stephanie Cowell takes us back for a look into the early life of Impressionist artist, Claude Monet. Cowell vividly creates a picture (really, no pun intended) of Monet’s struggles to master his art with little financial support from his family, and traces the life of his tumultuous and passionate love affair [...]
I think that most of us have a comfort zone. That certain type of book which we gravitate to over and over again. Whether it delivers a certain emotion, writing style, a particular mood or feeling, is a particular genre or is set in a certain time period, we know what we like. Since I [...]
This week I have been fascinated while reading Daughters of The Witching Hill, by today’s guest poster and author, Mary Sharratt. It is so good! I also really enjoyed getting a glimpse of the historical rendering of Bess Southerns, which Mary discusses today. In 2002, I moved to the Pendle region in Lancashire, Northern England. [...]
Welcome Readers and Cheerleaders! You’ve made it to hour 5. That is fantastic! Your probably need a little break and some fun right about now, so this one is for you – and you have from 12PM EST – 4PM EST, 4 hours, to do it. After that I will choose two winners at random; [...]
Right now, I am reading Claude and Camille, by novelist Stephanie Cowell. Artists have such interesting lives and I love being able to take a peek into their worlds. Cowell’s book is a glimpse into Monet’s struggles as an artist, his friendships, and his relationship with his first wife Camille. I’d like to welcome Stephanie [...]
and I need your help getting a few more posts together for the carnival. On That’s How I Blog! one of the questions that I almost invariably ask my guests is what books that they have read that were outside of their comfort zone, but that they ended up really enjoying. For me that book [...]
Mexican food is probably one of my favorite things to eat. It’s simple and relatively easy to make a healthy meal from the common ingredients in Mexican fare. Somehow when I have Mexican food, it rarely turns out to be as healthy as I would like it to be. Instead of a baked tortillas, I [...]
In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks author Rebecca Skloot tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman who escaped an arduous life picking cotton – on the same farmland that her family worked as slaves – to move to Baltimore, Maryland. Though she had a troubled marriage to her first cousin, David Lacks, [...]
It is 1960 in the memoir, A Gift From Brittany, when Marjorie leaves her parents and boyfriend in order to fulfill her lifelong dream of going to Paris to paint for what she thinks will be a few months. As an artist, she cannot be complete without that experience, and even though she doesn’t speak [...]
Hey all you Sunday Saloners! Happy Easter and may you find many colored eggs if you are celebrating today. Marjorie Price’s memoir, A Gift From Brittany, alternately left me touched by the people Marjorie met and the warm experiences she had in the Breton countryside, and frustrated by the situation she found herself in with [...]
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