Participated in tonight‘s virtual event with author Fiona Davis in an interview with journalist Mary Shanklin sponsored by the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT. She was delightful-wonderful background information. Now this read will be so much richer for me! #TheMET #Egypt
https://booknotions.com/behind-the-book-with-fiona-davis/
Book group trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. #FirstSaturdayReaders #TheMet
One of the more interesting pieces I saw yesterday as a hobbled my way around the museum. Palmer‘s “Indian Girl, or The Dawn of Christianity” where she supposedly is hit by a spiritual bolt of lightning by finding a cross in the woods. Beautiful statue, sad re-writing of history. #themet #nyc
When at the Met in her younger years Julia thought: “Sometimes she would imagine herself taking up residence in one of those rooms, like the runaway children in From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.”
#bookinabook #theMet #ThatSummerRead #BuddyRead #porchreading
I realize you must all be thinking: that porch again?! I am back to work Tuesday so will have less porch reading time. 😥 so relief is in sight!
pickThe tagged book is a novel about the modern-day pursuit of a rare and fantastic JMW Turner painting that the artist created while in residence at Petworth House in Suffolk. Both the art caper and the historical-fiction sections ask the reader to imagine a glorious (and alas totally fictional) painting that would render the viewer awestruck.
It boggles the mind.
Image: Venice, from the porch of Madonna Della Salute, ca 1835 (At The Met)
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