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Day 8 #BasedOnTrueStory #AboutABook #MyNeverendingTBR

A fun middle grade romp through Renaissance Italy. As a lover of Renaissance art, and children‘s literature, this was absolutely lovely.

I couldn't figure how to link my Goodreads review of this, so here's a screenshot of what I wrote there. I really dislike Litsy's limiting review length, which is why I don't usually write one 😶😬

670/776
Almost there! 😅

I'm surprised how quickly I've been going thru this 700+ page book. Currently 594/776 pages
Hoping I can finish it this weekend, and it'll be the first book down of 2024... started it out with a banger, and a biggin.

Samantha thanks so much for my #jolabokaflod gift!! Sorry for the later post, I was at my sister's today and forgot to open it before I left this morning. I'm looking forward to reading this book and the chocolates are my favorite 🤤😋
#jolabokaflodswap23 @sblbooks @MaleficentBookDragon

Every year, I consider matching myself with @BarbaraJean . Looks like 2024 is finally the year! Here‘s her full list: a little Lit Fic, a little Fantasy, a dash of Children‘s Lit, and surprisingly (for me) even some Mysteries! I‘ve read 3 titles already: Thank You for Listening, When Women Were Dragons, & The Agony and the Ecstasy. The first made my list this year, the second *almost* did, & the third was a formative title in my adolescence! 👇🏻

I had to look up this YouTube video recommended by @SamAnne and I just about died laughing. Here‘s the link, but viewer beware. Content may not be appropriate for all audiences, as evidenced by the fact that SNL felt it had to do this interview because a parent thought showing a picture of David when learning about Renaissance art was pornographic. That parent better never take the family to Italy!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=basNf0KaOrc

This happened today. Very exciting to have seen the Sistine Chapel and now David especially after reading the tagged book. If ever there were a time to read lots about the places you‘re visiting this was it. I understood so much more about what our tour guide was describing

By the way, daughter and I both agreed that David is quite good looking

Michelangelo was a grumpy and admittedly ugly man who was so talented it‘s almost unreal. A sculptor, he reluctantly accepted the commission to paint the Sistine Chapel with almost no knowledge of how to paint alfresco, much less of painting the correct dimensions of humans or anything else on curved surfaces that would look normal while standing 60 feet below. And yet he did, creating a monumental work of art I simply cannot wait ⬇️