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Girl with a Pearl Earring | Tracy Chevalier
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Chevalier imagines the “girl with the pearl earring” is the Vermeer family maid and this is her story. Griet is fascinated by Vermeer‘s paintings especially when he gets her to help him prepare the color paints. She develops an eye for his paintings, but she‘s just a maid and must keep her place while also being his model. And she must be especially careful around his jealous wife and her cunning daughter. A slow but still interesting read. ⬇️

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Tulip Fever | Deborah Moggach
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Tulipomania and the Golden Age of Dutch Art entwined together so tightly that one can't tell the difference between lust and greed.

The climax brings to mind the moment when George Bailey of Its A Wonderful Life becomes unhinged toward Uncle Billy.

An innocent act brings the downfall of several characters.

#FoodandLit @Texreader @Catsandbooks

Readergrrl I belong to a fine arts studio and one of our instructors is Carlo Russo who is a floral oil painter of the Dutch Masters style. He has taught us so much about tulip mania! I will show him this book! You should check out his work. His tulip paintings are gorgeous!! 🌷 2d
Catsandbooks ❤️🇳🇱 2d
Butterfinger @Readergrrl there is also a movie adaptation. 2d
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Tulip Fever | Deborah Moggach
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He has seen cities to dream about: the gleaming domes of Constantinople; the ravishing, mirrored streets of Venice, corrupt and seductive, like Amsterdam's wanton sister.

#FoodandLit @Texreader @Catsandbooks

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Girl with a Pearl Earring | Tracy Chevalier
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#two4Tuesday

1) As an attorney, I routinely have to deal with attorneys on the opposite side of my case. I hate it when I lose my temper with them because they are rude or lie or speak down to me because I‘m a woman. I wish I could keep my cool and often I can. But sometimes I just lose it. 🤬

2) Griet is 16 and a new maid to artist Vermeer‘s family. She‘s struggling with the job and wants to go home even though she does the same work there.

Butterfinger That is one of my red flags, too, Karen. I can't stand when a man is condescending or calls me honey to calm me down. 1w
TheSpineView So with you on #1! Thanks for playing 1w
wanderinglynn I feel your pain. Heaven forbid a woman project any emotion except subservient contentment. And if we do, then it‘s all “calm down”, “you‘re being irrational/hysterical/[insert patriarchal insult here]. 🤬 1w
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Girl with a Pearl Earring | Tracy Chevalier
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I‘ve started this book, another one for #foodandlit #Netherlands @Catsandbooks

Bookwormjillk I loved that book when I read it. I should put it on my re-read list. 2w
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Tulip Fever | Deborah Moggach
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##FoodandLit @Texreader @Catsandbooks

SCORE!!!!!!!

Did anyone watch Masters of the Air - Tom Hanks and Steve Spielberg miniseries of "The Bloody Hundredth"? My favorite part was in the last episode when they did not fill the plane with bombs but food parcels for the Dutch even though there were still Nazis in the Netherlands. After they made the drop off, they saw tulips formed in the words, "Thanks, Yanks." It still fills me with tears.

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Katje, the Windmill Cat | Gretchen Woelfle
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I found some more books for Jace & I to read together for #foodandlit this month. This is an adorable story about a cat named Katje who lives with Nico, who works as a miller. Katje finds herself feeling left out when Nico marries and has a baby. Katje saves the day (and the baby!) when a dam bursts and there‘s a flood. 4.5⭐️

#Netherlands
#childrensbooks

Texreader Awwww that sounds adorable!! 3w
Catsandbooks 🐱🇳🇱 3w
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When We Flew Away | Alice Hoffman
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This quick read is a fictionalized story based on Hoffman's research and knowledge of the Holocaust. Specifically what life may have been like for Anne and her family as they fought to live a "normal" life during the Nazi occupation before they went into hiding. A very well written, beautiful, and heartbreaking novel. #audiobook

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Jen2
Midnight Blue | Simone van der Vlugt
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Fabulous story!!!

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When We Flew Away | Alice Hoffman
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Really enjoyed it.

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