#wondrouswednesday
🎄 My reading goals for 2023 were: first, let my mood dictate what I read; second, read the buddy reads I chose to participate in. Love those for the discussions that ensue. For the most part I accomplished them.
🎄The tagged book is close to 5 star but not quite
🎄I just started a Donna Leon book- trying to read them in order. #Brunetti
I had no idea as to the extent of the facial mutilation men suffered in World War I.An American sculptor & Red Cross worker in France,Christina Ladd Coleman started a studio in Paris to sculpt masks for these wounded men. Zoe, a painter & the book‘s protagonist,volunteered at her workshop.
https://youtu.be/MoJv0Vy8fm8?si=-ccAXTUmcIQBqGW4
https://www.forces.net/heritage/history/tin-noses-shop-sculptor-who-made-masks-m...
#midwintersolace #naturalitsy
Evening hot chocolate, and ginger cookies with evergreen scent candlelight.
Joining in with this group has resulted in me slowing down, reflecting on life ‘s seasons,& celebrating the natural life surrounding me with deliberation & joy.
thank you all for organizing this. I truly feel it has changed me and fundamental ways .
I am currently reading the tagged book, which I am enjoying. I am in my reading love seat, snuggled into pillows, wrapped in a fleece blanket, with Poe-cat on my lap. Very cozy. #midwintersolace #naturalitsy
so-soIt was just okay. Nothing to write home about. The side characters were much richer than Zoe. She herself was super unlikeable. It was sort of a disaster that just sucks your attention in.
so-soSet in early 1920s Paris, Zoe Barlow is a 22 yo young woman who has been exiled from her Alabama plantation home for a scandalous love affair and finds herself an artist in Paris with an eclectic menagerie of friends. After finding some missing manuscripts for a friend, others around her are winding up murdered. Are the deaths connected to the papers, a current political intrigue or something she hasn‘t uncovered yet? While this was an OK read, 🔻
Lost in Paris: A Novel | 
