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#StorySettings Day 26: From Fats‘ review: “Katie and the Mona Lisa tells the grand adventures that Katie and Mona Lisa had in the #museum, as they try to find something that would make Mona Lisa smile. This book includes reproductions of five art pieces of the Italian Renaissance including St. George and the Dragon by Raphael and The Lion of St. Mark by Vittore Carpaccio.”
Full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-jau

The publisher gifted me this book. My great grandfather painted in the interwar years and artist Toby Knobel Fluek painted (and wrote) her story after the war. But there are connections between the two stories - primarily the impulse to document the Polish Jewish community. The paintings are a lovely ode to Fluek‘s family and even the depressing wartime paintings beautifully illustrate and bear witness to history in an emotionally important way.

#Naturalitsy #Midwintersolace

I adore this cosy image and quote. You can always rely on Van Gogh for wisdom and clarity.

"The best way to know life is to love many things."

Vincent van Gogh

? Artwork by Naoko Stoop

Jasper and Stanley "helping" me with my bookish cat puzzle.

Megan, the book is on its way to you. You should get it on the 13th! Hope you enjoy it! Sorry it is a little late! It is in a brown Amazon envelope that I reused. I forgot to get a pic before the mail guy took it from me. @Patchshank @TheSpineView @lazylokistarkthorcaptain #Litsylovewritesnbooks

The story of a disputed daVinci painting, this is an exhaustive look at the Salvador Mundi itself and the art world a s a whole. I found pieces of it fascinating but other parts really bogged down for me. Full review at http://booknaround.blogspot.com/2022/08/review-last-leonardo-by-ben-lewis.html

I'm at Dresden, Germany and my hotel here uses real lofe books as tools to support the interrior design! This is soo cool! 😍

I am so excited to announce that I will be a guest blogger and reviewer for Books-a-Million. When my husband‘s job took us to Vegas, leaving BAM and my bookstore was so hard. This is a dream come true for me and I am over the moon about this opportunity!!! If y‘all would be so kind to pop over to the site and let me know what you think!!

https://blog.booksamillion.com/posts/book-annotating-101-a-guest-post

#outside #QuotsyAug21 @TK-421