The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh. Selected, Edited and Introduced by Mark Roskill. (Fourth Impression.). | 
pickThis was to my mind very fascinating. Whilst it is a slow go at times, it picks up midway through the book once he starts painting and for me having insight into how he interacted with his family was interesting. #bookspin #readnonfiction @TheAromaofBooks
Anyone else a fan? This short reel of Vincent Van Gogh's sketches is just what I needed today.
Image - The rock of Montmajour with pine trees, Van Gogh, Arles, 1888.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CnCE89SqEN7/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
pickVery interesting but also hard to get through until the second half when van Gogh started painting.
#MarchTBR! Two full months into the year and I seem to be falling into a good rhythm of how many books I can reasonably read from the shelves while library holds float in and take priority.
This month, I‘ve still got a few in progress from last month, my February #SweetReads, and four more from the stacks in my quest to #readmyowndamnbooks (which include 2 for my StoryGraph #readingrandomizer challenge)
#QuotsyJul21 #painting
“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” Vincent Van Gogh
I took the picture used as my quote background at the Beyond Van Gogh Experience.
#QuotsyJul21 #great
As a nod to the Beyond Van Gogh immersive art experience I am going to with my friend tomorrow (my first big indoor public event since COVID 😱), I thought I would choose this quote for today‘s “great” prompt.
Perfect Sundays are spent with the artists we love. Soaking in some Vincent.
pickI enjoyed reading this a lot! Van Gogh is an artist with so many myths about him so it was really valuable to see him as a human being in his own words. He occasionally annoyed me but it was it was still cool to see him as a vivid enough person that I could find him annoying. Most of his letters were just asking his brother for money but there was some wonderful material in between!
My first #24in48 was fun, if somewhat underwhelming timewise. I also had a nearly inevitable Timer Mishap (an accidental reset), but luckily I was taking notes on my progress as I went along, so I just had to do some math to get my total time: 7:47. 😉
Books finished: 4
Books started: 6
WIPs that saw progress: 1
Well, the guy who wrote the introduction to the edition of this book that I‘m reading is — to use a word I‘ve never used before and which I‘ve acquired 100 percent due to Littens — bananapants. Of course, the fact that his “introductory essay” takes up literally a quarter of the book is probably a warning. 😆
Someday I‘ll make it to the bit with actual letters that were actually written by Van Gogh...
(There are spoken quotes from his letters so I'm counting this as book-related.)
Oof! 😩 Even though the more dramatic incidents (you know what I'm talking about!) mostly happen off-screen, this is a film where I wanted to sit quietly in the dark afterwards until the credits had finished rolling. Willem Dafoe is brilliant as Vincent.
(I want to make him a big bowl of my special turmeric chai porridge: it's so freakin' YELLOW!) 🌻
I understand these letters get pretty depressing later in his life.
But so far I‘m loving Van Gogh‘s attitude toward bread and reading!
My October reading wrap-up. Saints preserve us, I stuck to my book-buying ban!
I've picked the tagged book as being the one that I think will stay with me the longest, though Burial Rites is a close second. Apparently, I saved the best books for the end of the month.
pick"To succeed, to enjoy lasting good fortune, one must have a different temperament from mine. I shall never do what I could have done and ought to have wanted and pursued." ?
Vincent, friend, you did all right! I admire him all the more for reading these letters. He comes across as a difficult individual, yes, but also a deeply thoughtful and vitally involved one. I found the cumulative effect to be simultaneously heartbreaking and affirming.
Some of my favorite secondhand finds!
I like Vincent's definition of an artist very much. I think it has humility without false modesty. The vitality of it appeals, too.
I like this. Van Gogh is usually seen as someone in thrall to the dance of creation/destruction, with the metaphorical red shoes on. But here he is in boot-polishing maintenance mode. I find his concern for his brother's diet quite touching.
What's all this about disposing of books, though?! ? Over the page he does go on to say that well-written books are "a source of comfort in life" but even so!
Eeeeeey, look what I scored. Vincent Van Gogh‘s letters made into footwear by Vans, lol.
I kind of have a uniform when it comes to everyday clothing and when my black shoes wear out I immediately go and buy the same black shoes and so on and so on. It‘s just less to think about that way.
But I made an exception for these because it‘s VINCENT‘S LETTERS! Time for a reread maybe.
#vanity #shoes #vans #vincentsletters
#QuotsyJuly18 #strength
Not sure if this strength quote appears in the letters contained in this book or not, but it seemed a good one to tag. 💜
Not really book related, but I watched this movie last night. It‘s beautiful and poignant. See it if you can! #starrystarrynight
Having my 2nd coffee of the day and reading my 2nd book of the day while waiting for my 2nd flight of the day✈️ Can‘t wait to get home, see Gambit, and open my #funkopopswap box. Why does it seem like I always have a business trip on swap days?
No time to read last night because I went to see “Loving Vincent”. It was beautiful. It was a great tribute to a great artist and it took many contemporary artists hours and hours of work to produce. Please take the time to check it out.
#Sniffles I know this isn‘t from a book, but I don‘t care! Fight me! I don‘t cry very often, but this episode of Doctor Who makes me cry EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I know because I‘ve seen me do it. 😭😭😭 It‘s stunning, beautiful, and gut-wrenching.
#150PnPCoverParty
This is the longest book I read this year - a collection of van Gogh's letters. 1020 pages.
#LongestBookYouRead #AllTheBooksOf2017
“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
One of many quotes of Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo. This ultimate collection of his letters in six books is of the highlights on my shelves.
#QuotsyDec17 #Letters
#AshesToAshes #SeptemBowie
"I'm happy, hope you're happy too
I've loved all I've needed, love
Sordid details following"
#VanGogh had many personal demons and (by some standards) substance abuse issues to deal with, especially in his final years. I'm completely and utterly fascinated by his life; his letters to his brother, Theo, are on my TBR.
@Marchpane @Cinfhen
I bought this again after talking about Van Gogh's visible slide into mental illness earlier tonight. I read this in my first semester of college for my honors English class which focused on landscape as a character in literature. I'm really excited to wade through this again with an adult perspective!
Spent the day in Amsterdam. Visited the Rijks and Van Gogh museums. Had to stop at the American book center to pick up a copy of his letters. Amazing descriptions of why he chose certain subjects and colors. I have my tram and bus reading for the week now.
Update: 257 pages in, only 764 to go 😄
With the #24in48 coming up this weekend and the #HPchapteraday starting on book 2 this weekend as well, it was time to put this on hold. I don't think I will manage to finish the next section until readathon starts, and this is definitely not a readathon book. So far it's interesting to read about the artists and authors that he like.
Will pick this up again soon.
New Kindle cover ☺️
