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Reading Women
Reading Women | Stefan Bollmann
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"This book brings together a selection of beautiful paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs of women reading by a diverse range of artists from the Middle Ages to the present day. Works by Vermeer, Manet, and Whistler are featured alongside those of Edward Hopper and photographer Eve Arnold, among many others. Each image is accompanied by a commentary explaining the context in which it was created - who the reader is, her relationship with the artist, and what she is reading."--BOOK JACKET.
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Samara_Kipnis
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Some of these works of art are really beautiful. It was a fun idea to compile these images from various time periods on the same topic into a book. The diversity of the subject was limited to age. It would have been more interesting if the author had included more current artwork with subjects of women of color and women of different religions besides Christianity.

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Mitch
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Bookshop browsing…. Not sure why I gravitated to this! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Chrissyreadit 🙌🙌🙌🙌 2y
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GatheringBooks
Reading Women | Stefan Bollmann
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#ForeverNovember Day 12: 2019 was my year of reading only #Women authors, and I have done a round-up of my progress and my key take-aways from this experience as can be seen above. More here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-leR

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I tend to mostly read women authors, not purposely though! 4y
OriginalCyn620 Awesome! 4y
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Adventures_of_a_French_Reader
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I enjoyed reading this book and discovering beautiful paintings and photographs of women reading.
However, I would have liked more context about the art. Also more about the evolution of reading for women. It would also have been interesting to have more contemporary works, with thus more female artists.

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thestarlesscasea
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Seen in the wild at Bookpeople. We sure are! 😼

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RvnclawWhovian
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Day 2-#7covers7days #covercrush

Post a cover you love for 7 days with no explanation

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StayCurious
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Came across this pic online and really liked it. There‘s nothing like being surrounded by books.

Megabooks It is great! 6y
CoffeeNBooks Welcome to Litsy! 📚 6y
tpixie Welcome to Litsy! Love the photo- The book sounds intriguing too! 🥳📚🥳 6y
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tammysue Fabulous photo! Welcome to Litsy!! 👋🏻📚💗 6y
Bookladylinda This is a cool pic! Welcome to Litsy!!! 6y
DivineDiana I like it too! Welcome to our Group! 👏🏻📚👏🏻 6y
Freespirit Welcome. Looking forward to your reviews😊 6y
lover.of.the.classics I agree! And Welcome to the Litsy Family!!!🥳 6y
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Jillybeane
Reading Women | Stefan Bollmann
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“Stfu, I‘m tryna read”

Happy #internationalwomensday!

lynneamch Basbleu catalog has reading women cards and calendars every year. I've had some framed for my reading nook. 🤓 6y
Jillybeane @lynneamch Sweet, I‘m gonna check it out! 6y
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Tashreads
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Read women! Happy International Women‘s Day.

MrsMalaprop How I love that your comment can be read as a command to Littens to read or a command to read books by women. Or both 👊📚❤️ #iwd19 6y
erzascarletbookgasm 👏❤️ 6y
wordzie ❤❤ 6y
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rockpools
Reading Women | Stefan Bollmann
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My reading this year hasn't been that 'intentional', and as a result I've probably read more white, male authors than planned. I really like this #readingwomenchallenge list of prompts, so think I'll get back on track by throwing myself into this one for 2019. Full details at https://www.readingwomenpodcast.com/reading-women-challenge-2019/

GatheringBooks oh we are doing a year of women reading women too in 2019! #WomenReadWomen2019 :) we will be having quarterly reading themes as well. :) 6y
rockpools @GatheringBooks 👍I've been checking in on your travels on the blog this year, but too much stuff going on to officially commit. Will definitely try & join you for the 2019 themes tho 😊- you're looking at women authors from round the world? (edited) 6y
GatheringBooks @RachelO yes!! that‘s the idea! :) we are featuring female voices exclusively on our website for the entire year. :) 6y
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rockpools @GatheringBooks Brilliant! Look forward to it! 😊 6y
lynneamch There's a great index of women authors of historical fiction at http://www.greermacallister.com/blog/2019/2/2/introducing-the-womenshistoryreads... 6y
rockpools @lynneamch Thank you! i‘ll enjoy exploring that one - looks like lots of names I haven‘t come across before. 6y
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Jillybeane
Reading Women | Stefan Bollmann
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Getting my list together for #readingwomenchallenge2019, here‘s how it‘s shaping up so far. I‘m probably going to start with #10, as it‘s the category I‘m least excited about.
#readingwomen
#readingwomenchallenge

LoverofLit I'm also struggling with that topic. I'll have to check out your pick! I definitely want audio for it I think. 6y
Jillybeane @LoverofLit Audio! That‘s a great idea! 6y
Rissreads @LoverofLit @Jillybeane How about 40 autumns by Nina Willner? It tells the story of 5 women from one family separated by the Berlin Wall and one of them is an Olympic athlete. It‘s a fantastic read! 6y
LoverofLit @Rissreads That sounds right up my alley. Thank you! 6y
Jillybeane @Rissreads I‘ll check it out, thanks for the suggestion! 6y
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Purrsistently
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New sticker for my kindle case! (Check out fabfeministart on instagram) I also ordered the tagged book friday :P

BookishMarginalia Love it! 6y
JoScho So cool! 6y
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BarbaraTheBibliophage
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I‘m excited to join this challenge for 2019. I love the prompts and also supporting some Littens who are also podcasters. More info here: https://www.readingwomenpodcast.com/reading-women-challenge-2019/

eraderneely My favorite Lahiri is 6y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @eraderneely I may read that one for the challenge. I read her first book but have both Namesake and 6y
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Jillybeane
Reading Women | Stefan Bollmann
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It‘s a delightful book, full of little blurbs to help you catch all the nuances of the paintings. I loved it.

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tina_b.ooks
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My boyfriend and I did some rearanging this weekend. It was a lot of work, but I'm really proud of the result. It kind of feels like I have my own little bookshop at home 😊

Sarah83 Oh my god. This is so gorgeous. I love everything about it 😍😍😍 6y
tina_b.ooks Thank you @Sarah83 😊 6y
yourfavouritemixtape That looks really cozy! 6y
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ju.ca.no Ooh amazing! It looks really pretty😍 6y
ConfessionofaBookaholic Love it 😍 6y
Tamra 👏🏾👍🏾 6y
KarouBlue Love that chair! 6y
Andrew65 Looks great 👍 6y
Nute Absolutely lovely! 6y
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pgh.femme
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Pure joy.

vivastory I love this book 6y
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RowReads1
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Litsy‘s back!!! Yah! The above is “In the pergola” by Oscar Bluhm.

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ReadingEnvy
Reading Women | Stefan Bollmann
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And both of @thereadingwomen were at the Min Jin Lee talk. Good thing because I read Pachinko for one of the items on their challenge - it counts either for immigration or Reading Women shortlist for 2017! Also at the talk - two women from my in-person book club. Pachinko is our read for June.

Ms_T Lovely picture! 7y
saresmoore Woohoo! So cool!! 7y
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queerbookreader
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Finally got my hands on this 😍

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queerbookreader
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Went to big fancy central library branch. Can you tell I had fun? 😁

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eastbaykate
Reading Women | Stefan Bollmann
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Reading without constant interruptions feels luxurious...I‘m also feeling the itch to travel.

SusanInTiburon Beautiful! 7y
eastbaykate @SusanInTiburon - thank you so very much.😊 7y
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DivineDiana
Reading Women | Stefan Bollmann
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Two reading gifts that I received last night. A book of postcards and a small calendar. Truth be told, it was easy to find a perfect gift for me because I listed them on my Amazon Wish List, made public for just that reason! 😉

Mdargusch Both are beautiful! 7y
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MamaGina
Reading Women | Stefan Bollmann
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Pleased with my bookmail today...l 💗 these bookmarks @thereadingwomen 🤓

thereadingwomen Yay! So happy you like them. 😊 7y
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ReadingsByTheC
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Current mood. (image from Pinterest)

TheLondonBookworm 😂😂😂👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽 7y
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CoffeeCatsBooks
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The beginning of this book talks about attitudes towards women reading through the centuries. When not an act of piety, it was often portrayed as corrupting or frivolous. What were those women doing alone and what were they thinking?! If you want to know one of the fears people had, Google Pierre-Antoine Baudouin's painting The Reader. The rest of the book features artwork and on the opposing page a description and an analysis of it. #boutofbooks

CoffeeCatsBooks Full color and the artwork is all of women reading from the 1400's - 1900's. Darn your word limit, Litsy! 7y
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BarbaraTheBibliophage
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I bought this on a whim during Prime Day because I love the title and the painting used for the cover. Received it today and positively LOVE the inside also. I can't wait to start enjoying the art and ideas inside.

EvieBee Looks lovely! 7y
rubyslippersreads I ordered this too—can't wait for it to arrive! 7y
Laura317 That looks lovely! I'll have to add to my art book collection. 7y
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Leftcoastzen Very cool! 7y
saresmoore Sold! It looks fantastic! 7y
Foragingfantasy Love!! I have the picture on the left hanging in my room! 😍 7y
ReadingEnvy I almost bought it on prime day too but got distracted. 7y
minkyb How did I miss this? 7y
ValerieAndBooks I almost bought this on Prime Day! Maybe I'll add it to my wish list on amazon. 7y
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DarcysBookBlog
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Got this gorgeous book today! 😍 Already started flipping through it and I love it!

#readwomen #bookmail

DebinHawaii So pretty! 💜📚 7y
mrozzz Ahhh found this because of Prime Day. Is it fabulous?? Didn't end up purchasing, yet! 7y
DarcysBookBlog @mrozzz it's fabulous! It's filled with gorgeous pictures and interesting history about reading! It's a great coffee table book! 7y
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mrozzz @DarcysBookBlog awesome ! 7y
book__sorceress I got it recently and can't wait to read it!!! 7y
DarcysBookBlog @book__sorceress From what I've seen while flipping through it, it looks really great! 7y
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Marla
Reading Women | Stefan Bollmann
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Saw this painting at Crystal Bridges Art Museum yesterday in Bentonville, Arkansas and thought that is so me minus the cat. I think this was called Woman Reading In Bed. The artist even got the hair correct. 😊❤️📚

goodbyefrancie I love that art museum! 7y
kristen_reads One of my favorite places! I just moved from NWArkansas to Houston, Texas. Sure miss home! 7y
minkyb Lovely! 7y
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Marla @goodbyefrancie have you seen the Chihuly exhibit? It's beautiful! My parents live in Bella Vista and are charter members of the museum. My Mom always says it was built for her since her maiden name is Crystal. 😉I love going there! 7y
emilyhaldi That's me every night! 😂❤️ 7y
Booksbymybed This cat looks so much like one of mine, lovely painting! 7y
goodbyefrancie @Marla I haven't seen the Chihuly there, but I've seen some of it in Seattle. It is indeed beautiful work. 7y
Jinjer Oh I love this! Hello Bentonville! Waving to you from Cherokee Village!🙋 7y
CoffeeCatsBooks I love this! 📖😺 7y
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Sarah83
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#readingwomenmonth @thereadingwomen @kdwinchester

reading #classics or other books makes every woman happy. 😍

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Kmmsellers
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Happy day to all of you reading women! 💜

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Sarah83
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😍😙 also seen at Pinterest

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Sarah83
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Yes indeed. 😍

Reecaspieces ❤️❤️❤️or a glass of wine!🍷 8y
JazzFeathers AGREED!!!!!!!! 8y
christineandbooks This is my life motto... 8y
RealBooks4ever YESSS! 💜💜💜 8y
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Sarah83
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exactly 😍 Love this pic. 😍

LeahBergen ❤❤ 8y
RadicalReader @Sarah83 so happy about that quote and so accurate 8y
vivastory I ♥ this 8y
kspenmoll ❤💚 8y
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Sarah83
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#TBR @RealLifeReading

Mit welchem der vielen Stapel soll ich denn nur anfangen? Wie viele Bücher habt ihr denn auf eurem Sub?

Which stack should be the first one I start with? How many books do you have on your TBR stack?

Ole Looks a bit overwhelming 😜...I only have my virtul TBR list 8y
moranadatter I mixed my TBR in with books I have read because it was overwhelming. 8y
Sarah83 @Ole It is overwhelming. You are so right. 😉 But I can't pass a book sale without looking at it and buying something 😣 8y
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Sarah83 @kmdartist I also have TBR on the shelfs. 🤔 8y
cathysaid I agree with @kmdartist. That's what I do as well 😏 8y
RealBooks4ever I've got 1,294 books in my TBR piles... 📚📙📚📘📕 so many books... 😜they have a room of their own! 8y
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Kimbono
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Bookish Christmas gifts!

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8leagueboot
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Resting book face

Alfoster Love it!❤️ 8y
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MemoirsForMe
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I love hanging out at Chaucer's Bookstore in Santa Barbara. Being surrounded by all these beautiful books from floor to ceiling puts a silly grin on my face every time. And unlike my house, every pile of books you see here is in order and categorized by title, author and genre. So grateful for indie bookstores. Rock on, Chaucer's! 😊👍🏻 📚 #getindie #chaucersbookstore

Riveted_Reader_Melissa That looks amazing! 8y
EKonrad Just went here! Couldn't get myself to leave. 😉 8y
MemoirsForMe @Ekonrad I know what you mean. Surrounded by all those books...I may bring a sleeping bag next time. 😁 8y
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Bibliotini
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Found my posse at the Art Institute while vacationing.

MrBook 😂👍🏻 8y
MrBook One definitely for you, @BookBabe ! 😊 8y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Yay to being dangerous. I will whack you over the head with my giant book! 8y
BookBabe 😄📚 8y
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Bookletting
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Filed under "reshelving the new books = more books to bring home" :)

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