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Eh...this book was nothing spectacular but I didn‘t hate it.

I‘m super behind on reviews so some of mine will be real short.

I‘ll raise my hand right now and say I do not understand the hype on this one. The writing is good, but the characters are unlikeable jerks.I sorta felt they all deserved each other. This has been offered up as a contemplation of gender roles in society. I didn‘t see it that way. The characters in this book all seemed to embody a one dimensional aspect of some type of neurosis. Not my thing, but again, the writing is good. 3/5

Self-realization might seem desirable in comparison to its opposite, but as the only alternative it wasn't especially attractive. Suddenly it seemed as if the nameplate on her door was mocking her, that "Karolina Andersson, Professor of Art" was nothing more than a sad indictment. That was her life, summarized in just a few words. A life should contain more than there is space for on a nameplate.

Reading Envy Podcast 117: Speed Dating, Round 2 of 2018. Plus some updates on Reading Envy Summer Reading. https://tinyurl.com/ReadingEnvy117

Day 2 book Haul from the first session of the day- Smart Women Everywhere: Women Calling the Shots in Global Fiction. I grabbed a book from each author! Such wonderful women writers on this panel...

It would be a mistake to reduce this book to a relationship between a female art professor and a atudent, because it's really about feminism and identity and aging. eARC from NetGalley.

I was lucky enough to win a book giveaway hosted by @otherpress. So far, I‘m hooked by the story and writing in Eventide by Therese Bohman. I love art history, so I was so excited to see that this revolves around an art history professor in Stockholm and a female artist working around 1900 that could change the history of Swedish visual arts.

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Just started this Swedish novel of a newly-single, 40-something academic in Stockholm whose hottie postgrad advisee discovers (or "discovers") a forgotten artist. I predict an affair. Ethically terrible but narratively satisfying.

Beautiful, astute writing. A middle-aged art professor questions her choice to choose career over the security of family, never sure if she made the right choice. A character study with shrewd observations. I highlighted A LOT. Short, sensitive story.

Approved for this ARC today after I wished for it on Netgalley. About an art professor in Stockholm with “undercurrents of eroticism, competition, deceit, and fear.” Oo la la!