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• Woman Eating Mars Bar

  

  This is by Andrew Loomis, (1892-1959) an American illustrator. If you google him you will find lots more of his attractive paintings, but I haven't been able... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Duke's Children

  

  This is certainly a fascinating novel. I can't say that I loved it as much as all (or almost all) of Trollope's Barchester series, or as much as Phineas Finn... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien

  

  Once upon a time, when I was really young, I read a couple of Maigret novels, though I couldn't tell you which ones. You'd think that as such a devotee of... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Woman (not) Reading

  

  This is Sleeping Eva, by Daniel Vázquez Díaz (1882-1969), a Spanish cubist painter. That's a very small book she's been reading -- I wonder what it was? Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Little Friend

  

  From the time she was old enough to talk, Harriet had been a sightly distressing presence in the Cleve household. Fierce on the playground, rude to company,... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Woman Reading

  

  I thought you might like an 18th-century painting for a change, so I found this --'Sigismonda and the Heart of Guiscardo' by  the British... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Good Luck of Right Now

  

  So far 2014 seems to be my year of serendipitous reading. First it was The Expats, bought to save me from airport boredom solely on the strength of the title,... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Woman Reading

  

  This is 'Interior with the Artist’s Wife' by Albert André (1869-1954), French post-impressionist painter and friend of Renoir and Monet, both of whose... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Expats

  

  On my way home after Christmas I found myself in the airport with time to kill. I wanted to listen to my audio book but found I'd left my earphones behind. Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Girls Reading

  

  Here's a photo for a change. This is New York: Girls in Fairy Costumes Reading, 1938. Photographed by André Kertész (Hungarian, 1894-1985). Sent to me by Dark... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Girl Reading

  

  A bit of Victorian kitsch for the new year. This is Wonderland, by Adeleide Claxton. I haven't found out anything about the painter, except that she was the... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Entry Island

  

  I must start by saying that this is the first novel of Peter May's that I have read. But his name has been well known to me for some time, as several bloggers... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Best of 2013

  

  Happy New Year, everyone! So here we are at the end of another year, and I always like putting up a post of my best reads. Partly I like it because I hope... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Riot

  

  The Riot is the fifth of Laura Wilson's historical crime novels featuring DI Ted Stratton, and I've read them all, though I've only reviewed three of them on... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Girl Drawing

  

  Continuing our occasional sub-set of women seen from the back, here is 'At the Window', by Martin Drolling (aka the Elder, French 1752-1817). Oil on canvas.... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Secret History

  

  The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation. Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• and Another

  

  I thought it was time for a change in the banner so here is the painting I used -- it's by the Swedish artist Georg Paulli (1855-1925) -- rather apt for... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Woman Reading

  

  Painted in 1921, this is Reading Woman with Parasol by Henri Matisse (1869 – 1954), who has to be one of my very favorite painters. I'd never seen this before... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Reading, Writing, Re-reading

  

  I've been a bit unwell this week -- nothing serious, just one of those bugs that doesn't come to much but leaves you a bit feverish, queasy, and lacking in... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Woman Putting on a Hat

  

  Actually 'Preparing for the Matinee' (1907), by the American painter Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862–1938). Funny to think of putting on such a large hat to go to... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE