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Artful
Artful | Ali Smith
A stimulating combination of literary criticism, essay, and fiction (The New Yorker) from the incomparable Ali Smith Artful is a celebration of literatures worth in and to the worldit is about the things art can do, the things art is made of, and the quicksilver nature of all artfulness. A magical hybrid that refuses to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form, Artful is narrated by a character who is hauntedliterallyby a former lover, the writer of a series of lectures about art and literature. Ali Smiths heady powers as a novelist and short story writer harmonize with her keen perceptions as a reader and critic to form a living thing that reminds us that life and art are never separate.
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AnneCecilie
Artful | Ali Smith
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This is the perfect blend of fiction and nonfiction like only Ali Smith can do it. It is a series of lectures on literature, but it is also about the grief after losing a loved one and the process of coping with that.

This was my #BookSpin book for April

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4y
vivastory This is one of my favorite Ali Smith books 4y
AnneCecilie @vivastory I can totally see that. I really love the seasonal quartet and “The Accidental”. I think “How to be Both” is up for a reread, it was the first Smith I read and I don‘t think it was the best book to start with. 4y
vivastory How to be Both is another fave. I haven't read the seasonal quartet yet. I hope to start it in the next month or so. Adding The Accidental to my TBR. 4y
Moray_Reads I love this one. It is so profound and so beautiful, I often think about it. I also read How To Be Both as my first Ali Smith and didn't love it. Now she's my favourite (living) writer I should definitely read it again! 4y
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AnneCecilie
Artful | Ali Smith
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#WeeklyForecast

Continue my chapter a day reading of Anne of Ingleside

Continue my reading of Jerusalem, I‘m thinking maybe two chapters a day.

Read Piranesi, Small Pleasures and Artful

Cinfhen So many people are reading this book 4y
AnneCecilie @Cinfhen I seen some very good reviews on BookTube so I hope I‘ll love it. 4y
Cinfhen I‘ll be waiting to hear your thoughts 😊 4y
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BekaReid
Artful | Ali Smith
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This was such a fascinating and delightful book exploring the relationship between thought, literature, and art. Also, I really liked Ali Smith's approach using an imagined past and present in this essay series/novel, which was a bit jarring and disorienting at times as told through the lens of mourning the loss of a lover.

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BekaReid
Artful | Ali Smith
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"Art is always an exchange, like love, whose giving and taking can be a complex and wounding matter"

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BekaReid
Artful | Ali Smith
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These lines from Czesław Miłosz's poem, Ars Poetica, are lingering in my mind.

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Kshakal
Artful | Ali Smith
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Eggs ❤️💙💜 4y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So pretty 💜💗 2y
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EadieB
Artful | Ali Smith
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Day 18 - #Artful #AboutAugust
#Artful #AliSmith

I think I need to read this book. Looks interesting to me!

Eggs Cover Love 💕 4y
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Thndrstd
Artful | Ali Smith
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To describe this beautiful, provocative book is difficult. It's part biography, part love story, part ghost story, part literary analysis, part meditation on death and life and literature and how we cope. The inability to put it into simple description or synopsis is one of the things that makes it so intriguing and interesting. It is a remarkable achievement in its boldness and perception. Haunting

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SW-T
Artful | Ali Smith
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A cottage and a stack of books. 😊

#happiness #artmatters #art #bookworm #readers

ShyBookOwl I adore this! 😍 6y
CKBrooke How I envision my golden years!! 6y
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Moray_Reads
Artful | Ali Smith
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I could quote from every page ❤️ (but I won't!)

saresmoore Oh, but I wish you would! 6y
Moray_Reads @saresmoore you can only get the full wonder from Ali herself. It's such a beautiful book ❤️ 6y
vivastory @saresmoore I agree with Moray. This is a fantastic book. 6y
saresmoore @vivastory I already added it to my to-buy list! After tax refund, that is. 6y
Moray_Reads @saresmoore @vivastory I don't want to pressure you or anything but she's my favourite living writer so I'd recommend her entire back catalogue. Except the Accidental, that one didn't work for me for some reason 6y
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Moray_Reads
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TheDaysGoBy
Artful | Ali Smith
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I don‘t have much artistic ability (my sister got that gene), but me, her, and our mother did a Painting with a Twist class back in April. This was the result. Not too bad overall. I‘m #grateful for the beauty #art provides and how every person gets something different out of it. I wish I had the picture of all three of our paintings because it was funny how different they looked for being the same scene

#gratitude30

Zelma I did one of these once and had such a fun time. I really want to do it again! 6y
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Moray_Reads
Artful | Ali Smith
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1. #edbookfest! The marvelous Ali Smith who ALMOST sat in a booth with @scripturient and I. So close.
2. Researching for a blog on medieval girdle books
3. ALL DAY
4. I've just moved but the few encounters I've had have been friendly
5. Re-read an old favourite
#humpdaypost @MinDea

scripturient Oh yes, that was such an amazing moment. Too bad she decided to move some place else after all. 😩 6y
Moray_Reads @scripturient it was that strange guy in our booth. He scared her away! 6y
scripturient @Moray_Reads Or it was my over-enthusiastic grinning. 🙈🤣 But yeah, the guy really was weird. Did you see the journal he kept leafing through? I‘m not sure if I found the thing artistic or psychologically worrisome. 🤔 6y
Moray_Reads @scripturient worrisome. He kept laughing at weird moments! 6y
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Eggs
Artful | Ali Smith
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ART ATTACK!!! Is it Monday again?!?!

1. Cover art: Language Arts by Stephanie Kallos. Loved the book too❣️
2. I have so many favorite artists: G. Eggleston, Degas, Hopper, Wyeth, Monet
3. Favorite painting is above: an oil painting done by my late husband that hangs in my kitchen
4. Favorite art museum: Harry Ransom art center (Austin) and National Gallery of Art (Washington DC)
#manicmonday @JoScho
Thanks @JoScho ❤️😊😍

RohitSawant Wonderful painting. 💕 7y
JoScho Love that painting ❤️ 7y
Eggs @rohit-sawant @joscho Thank you 😊 (edited) 7y
tammysue Beautiful! x 7y
Eggs Thank you 😍😘 @whatshesreadingnow 7y
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erinreads
Artful | Ali Smith
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I feel like I‘m decorating challenged. I‘m trying to put together some stuff to hang back in my reading room and I‘m slowly collecting stuff to hang and it‘s taking me forever because I get so picky about frames or how to actually hang stuff. Which one looks better? It‘s just a 4x6 print so it‘s not too big.

Lizpixie I like A but it‘s a bit too big 7y
CocoReads I like A, I love white frames but that one makes the print look too squished. But I‘m decorating challenged as well. 7y
jessijames I like A! 7y
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Jess7 Both are cute! I think I prefer B 7y
2BR02B I think the matting on A cuts off too much of the piece, so my vote is for B. 7y
DivineDiana I agree about the squished look on B with @CocoReads So A, although I prefer a white frame. 7y
Pamwurtzler I think B - I like the white frame better. 7y
TheLibrarian I like A! 7y
vkois88 As a framer, I'd go with A. It's more aesthetically pleasing in terms of the spacing. If it is not going on the wall pictured, it shouldn't clash at all. If it is, I would probably get the same frame as A in the white color to make it pop, but potentially with a colored mat since it looks to be a 5x7 frame. 7y
YouReadMyEyes I like the white frame on B. But I like the matte spacing on A. 7y
AmyG A 7y
vkois88 A red mat would really pop the colors within, especially with a white frame around it... if I'm not mistaken, you got them both at michaels? A looks like a Belmont or Logan frame, both of which should be available in white, and there are definitely precut mats that should work 😊 7y
Alfoster Agree with @vkois88 ! 7y
erinreads @vkois88 Yep, both from Michaels. You‘re good! The gray one is a Belmont. I‘ll go back and look for a white frame and look at the colored mats. And basically what I‘m gathering from this is that I can just come to you with any framing questions and advice in the future! 😂😂😂😘 7y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa A, it‘s all about the matting 7y
GirlMeetsBook Definitely A. B looks squished in the frame. 7y
vkois88 @erinreads lol most definitely! I love doing it... I help my friends and family too 😊 if you don't like a red mat, check for a blue one. Both are primary colors and accent all the secondary colors in there to help them pop!! 7y
vkois88 I'd have to say the most brag-worthy piece I've designed was for Anne Marie Pace, the author of Vampirina. She came in with a print of one of the illustrations and I put it together for her. I also just did a Black Panther piece for my friend, and put together an awesome selection for a Metroid poster for my brother. Sadly, we didn't put that together in time and we no longer carry one of the mats 😣 7y
tournevis A. No Contest. 7y
Cortg A, for sure! 7y
Karkar A 7y
Eggs A 7y
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Moray_Reads
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robinb
Artful | Ali Smith
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@GondorGirl I love this company's bookish art! I've purchased prints, bookmarks, notecards, etc.
Great quality and original fun designs! Discovered them on Etsy.

https://obviousstate.com/

#LiteraryArt

rubyslippersreads 😍😍😍 7y
GondorGirl That's so beautiful! Wow! 😻😻😻 7y
robinb @GondorGirl I know! I love everything they do...wish I could afford one of everything. 🤣 7y
GondorGirl @robinb The whole "Bloom" collection... I need one of everything! 7y
robinb @GondorGirl I got the Bloom bookmarks...beautiful. I love the quotes they choose and how slyly their prints depict them. One of my favorites is the Fitzgerald "Martini" print. (edited) 7y
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Mccall0113
Artful | Ali Smith
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#CoverToCover package going out tomorrow! With a little help from my munchkin. #LitsyGoesPostal

Betty Love her art!! 7y
tpixie Adorable!! Great color choice!!! 7y
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shutupsmalls
Artful | Ali Smith

Clever trees. Know-it-all trees. I was tired of trees. I looked up at the sky. It was there, like it always was, like it always would be. It was regardless. It has no eyes for anything but itself. Cut me open with a knife the color of that January sky, take a sliver of sky as sharp as a cheesewire and split me down the center from here at the top of my head, and what would be inside?

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bellasocks
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BooksCatsMaine
Artful | Ali Smith
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My nomination for #artrelatedbooks is Artful, by Ali Smith. This was the first Ali Smith I read and I loved it, of course.
It's a mix of poetry, art essays and fiction and it is so, so clever. I love that feeling when you finish a book and you've enjoyed it and you've learnt so much at the same time!

#seasonsreadings @RealLifeReading

RealLifeReading Lovely photo! 8y
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MamaGina
Artful | Ali Smith
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Trying my first Ali Smith🤓

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scripturient
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Put your feet up and read! 😊

LauraBeth That looks heavenly 8y
Gayan I long to be doing that instead of dealing with people. 8y
Lindy This book really made me think. I was glad to discuss it at one of my Feminist Book Club meetings. 8y
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