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I finished Spring Cannot Be Cancelled and Glory

I read both The Franchise Affair and Speaking from among the Bones.

Now I‘m off to meet a friend for brunch

Hockey decided to spend a year in Normandy and which happened to be the year of the pandemic. This is a book about the iPad paintings he did this year, but also about his influences both philosophers and other painters. A book about actually seeing what we see. But what strikes me the most after having read this is how many painters are influenced by their surroundings and are painting those.

If an exhibition opens near me I will def see it.

#WeeklyForecast

Finish both Spring Cannot Be Cancelled and Glory

I want to read The Franchise Affair

Hopefully get a good start on Speaking From Among The Bones

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I continued Agnes Grey #PemberLittens and is still not all caught up. I finished Under A White Sky #SheSaid and have started Spring Cannot Be Cancelled.

I read The Bandit Queens, The Read Tree and Saga volume 10. I‘m currently about halfway into Children of Paradise.

Nonfiction Favourites of 2022
https://youtu.be/MKIfJyE1O7E
#booktube

My favourite book in the past week is the one I‘ve tagged for this post. I talk about it in my most recent episode of Friday Reads:

Friday Reads May 13: Canadian literature; queer authors; art; aging; & schoolgirls in Afghanistan
https://youtu.be/cNvkxtK33zo

Stills from “Remember you cannot look at the sun or death for very long,” David Hockney 2020

This wonderful, wonderful book made me so happy. The above is one of the many gorgeous images that accompany the varied and interesting conversations between art critic Martin Gayford and David Hockney. Illustrations as talking points, demonstrating David‘s work as he lives in Normandy during the pandemic and lockdown. But it is not just David‘s work, it‘s the work of those he admires, his heroes. (More)