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Lesson in Red
Lesson in Red: A Novel | Maria Hummel
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"Brenae Brazil is a rising star at Los Angeles Art College, the most prestigious art school in the country, and a pupil of the institution's equally famous and influential director, Hal Giroux. Brenae's path to art world stardom is all but assured, so why did she kill herself shortly after completing a provocative documentary about female bodies, violence, and self-defence? Maggie Richter's return to LA and her old job at the Rocque Museum was supposed to be about restarting her career, reconnecting with old friends, and maybe starting to date again. The last thing she expected was to find herself at the center of another art world mystery concerning the death of Brenae Brazil. Are there hidden clues in Brazil's other works of video art? Maggie will get pulled into the cryptic video art of Brazil that will send her down the rabbit hole of art schools, power struggles over students and mentors, and the still shady and often violent art world in Los Angeles. The work of Kim Lord and the fallout of the Still Lives exhibition looms continually over Maggie and our other returning cast members. Picking up where Still Lives-a Reeses's Book Club and Hello Sunshine selection-left off, Lesson In Red is a fast-paced thriller set against the cutthroat world of high art and the often fatal legacies of women who threaten its status quo"--
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Hooked_on_books
Lesson in Red: A Novel | Maria Hummel
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I really liked Still Lives, so I wanted to try this follow up, but found it a bit of a muddle. In fairness, I was listening to it while watching the wind tear apart my shade house (representative photo, repeat x 5 acres), so I may not be being entirely fair. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Soubhiville Oh no! I hope it passes quickly and the repairs don‘t take too long. 💜 2y
LeahBergen Oh no! 2y
squirrelbrain Ugh, hope your plants are all OK. 2y
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leah152 Cripes, it must've been pretty windy to tear all that shade cloth! Hope your plants are ok... 2y
Ruthiella Bummer! ☹️ 2y
Hooked_on_books @Soubhiville @LeahBergen @squirrelbrain @leah152 @Ruthiella It‘s bad, thousands of dollars of damage. Some of the flowers are beaten up and the longer the plants are exposed to full sun, the more damage they incur. So we‘re racing to get them covered, but we have to prioritize since there‘s so much damage. We‘ll be cleaning this up for months. But I know there are people in the world in far more dire straits than I, so I‘m keeping perspective. 2y
LeahBergen Oh, Holly. I‘m so sorry to hear that. It sounds awful. 🙁 2y
squirrelbrain Oh no, sending love ❤️ 2y
Soubhiville I‘m so sorry. 2y
vivastory I'm so sorry to hear about this. This is terrible 2y
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BeckyLeJ
Lesson in Red: A Novel | Maria Hummel
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Last weekend‘s park reading. This was billed as a companion to Still Lives, but I do think it‘s more a true sequel. I felt like I‘d missed a lot of the character development that took place in Still Lives. I wasn‘t totally lost, but only just.

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Well-ReadNeck
Lesson in Red: A Novel | Maria Hummel
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Loved the LA art scene as a setting/world for a mystery. But, the unraveling of the mystery itself was a bit clunky. #ARC #Netgalley

BarbaraBB Great cover 🥰 3y
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Lesson in Red: A Novel | Maria Hummel
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I thoroughly enjoyed Hummel‘s first book so I was excited to see there was a sequel.If you forgot what happened in "Still Lives" they do a good job jogging your memory in what happened.Bc of this you do not necessarily have to have read "Still Lives" to read this one. This one closely mirrors "Still Lives" in that there is a mystery in the art-world that is trying to be solved that brings Maggie Richter back to Los Angeles. Out May 4.

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Loving this one!

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Getting in some reading time in the afternoon lull

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tracey38 Wow, interesting cover. 3y
rather_be_reading @tracey38 ik I love it! 3y
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Lesson in Red: A Novel | Maria Hummel
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My next 11 books will be all Netgalley ARCs! After these are done Im going to try my best not to request any so I can continue knocking out my Goodreads tbr.

Crazeedi I have the same problem 3y
Tera66 Same for me, got to stay off Netgalley! 3y
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