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1) I love a good museum. The Blasket Centre is a museum of the Blasket Islands and the stories of its inhabitants until the last one left. Dunquin, Ireland. I‘ll also give a shout out to the Portland Art Museum. It‘s a fine way to spend an afternoon.

2) The tagged book was on an #AuldLangSpine list a few years ago.

Thanks for the tag @TheSpineView

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Recently I‘ve been thinking about whether art has to have a perspective to be art. This novel looks at a piece by real-life performance artist Marina Abramović that is all perspective. In 2010, she sat all day for 75 days in a gallery and stared directly into the eyes of anyone who sat across from her. This feat of physical and emotional endurance is just incredible. The story focused mainly on one fictional character very moved by this, but ⬇️

My review of this book can be found on my Youtube Vlog at:

https://youtu.be/uO6j6km2S7s

Enjoy!

"Art will wake you up. Art will break your heart. There will be glorious days. If you want eternity you must be fearless." --

#modernlove #loveprevails @Eggs

#QuotsyAug20 Day 3: #Romance - this quote is from Season 1, Episode 2 of Modern Love - technically not from a book, but I simply couldn‘t resist. It is absolutely beautiful.

It‘s my birthday! So I gifted myself the time to finally pick back up and finish this book, which I started many weeks ago. It‘s SO good. And bittersweetly perfect for right now, being that it‘s based in NYC and all about relationships and art and the meanings found in being together physically, even with strangers, and even when no words are spoken. 💔❤️ I loved and highly recommend it.

#Ozfiction
This book is fiction and fact. I love it when I read a book and it teaches me things. I spent a lot of time googling the performance artist Marina Abramović and the show ‘The artist is present‘ where she sat for 75 days across from whomever wished to and silently stared into their eyes. Fascinating!
March #bookspin
@TheAromaofBooks

President‘s Day means a four-day weekend to the school districts around here, so this year Valentine‘s Day is a day off, too. We‘re enjoying the lack of schedule, and looking forward to the sweets and celebrations that will come later, but right now I‘m excited to finally be starting this book. (The 🌻 is a gift from one of my kids who grew it himself in the school garden. ❤️)

2010 marina abramovic, a piece of conceptual art in moma where she sat for 75 days in a chair opposite members of the public who look into her eyes, the intensity often brought them to tears. The novel imagines Arky Levin, a husband in crisis, and others arnd him who become obsessed with the art. A bk that explains the art + reminds me of each individual life story i pass on the street every day. I need more room to discuss on GR but loved it.

#WeeklyBookReport Finished Montauk which surprised me in the end 3 1/2 🌟 Continuing with all my buddy reads and am reading them at a good pace. The Harry Potter book is a buddy read with my daughter. This one has always been my least favorite of the series but I listening to the audio version is changing my mind a little bit. #WeeklyForecast starting my next recommended book for #NewYearWhoDis.

First completed read for #NewYearWhoDis, and second completed read for 2020.

I fear that audio reading (vs print) this one was the wrong choice. I‘ve been to MOMA, and I recall not understanding some of the art that resides there. I felt the same way about Abramovic‘s performance art. I do think that framing this book around a real artist and piece was a nice touch. I wish I‘d appreciated it more, but glad to read outside my wheelhouse!

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#WeeklyForecast

📚#newyearwhodis: Finish tagged book, continue The Handmaid‘s Tale & ATGIB (also for #atreegrowsinbrooklynbuddyread)

📚#authoramonth: Finish Things My Son Needs to Know About the World, start Us Against You (which also begins #theunreadshelfproject2020!)

This was the last book of 2019! Excited for 2020 reading, but haven‘t started yet. Does anyone take a planned reading break between years?

Some of my five star reads from 2019. But I‘m currently reading Boy Swallows Universe and if I finish by tomorrow it will definitely fit into this category as well.

My pregnant, oldest friend and hopefully my step daughters and I are participating in a pro choice march on the weekend. Wish us luck. I hope what is happening in America doesn‘t continue to happen anymore or anywhere.

This novel, set during a real art show, isn't what I expected. Initially I was disappointed in the writing, the occasional narrator that must be art personified??!, and the style of modern art this book glorifies. However, I became interested in the career of Abramovic and felt moved by her exhibit. This book made me think about art's role in how we interact with others, the world, even death. It will stick with me, and that is worthwhile

https://wellreadneck.wordpress.com/2019/06/28/the-museum-of-modern-love-heather-...

It has to be a good book when the subject of the story praises it and it really is. It is more character driven than plot driven, it‘s right up my alley. It follows different fictional spectators‘ lives of Marina Abramović‘s performance art piece at the MOMA back in 2010. It covers the power of art on humans, love, regret, friendship, relationships, and also bringing in aspects of Abramović‘s personal life mixed in. I really enjoyed it.

#ModernLove #MayMovieMagic

Well, the trip was worth it. My dad has a car!! I was hoping to get a picture of him with it, but it rained all day, so here are the dealer pictures!! 😂😂😂 Many of us, Dad and me included, love all the new, modern tech in our cars!

Home safe but exhausted. It wasn‘t a good #BFC day because of all the eating out, but I‘m nearly done with The Mastermind #audiobook @Cinfhen 👍🏻

#ModernLove #MayMovieMagic @rohit-sawant @Cinfhen

#ModernLove #MayMovieMagic

“There wasn‘t time to linger on what might be. There was what had to be”

I wanted to love it. I tried to love it. A few times I even did love it. Ultimately, though, I struggled through it. I guess it just wasn't my thing. 🤷🏻‍♀️ #currentread #meh

1. Tagged plus Becoming, Matchmaking for Beginners & I was Anastasia
2. Captain Marvel
3. Tea
@rachelsbrittain #weekendreads

My photo from yesterday celebrating the first day of reading outside this year...or better known as spring.

It took me three tries to get into this one - audiobook, ebook and paper. I persevered and I‘m glad I did. The book has a kind of shapelessness to it with Abramovic‘s The Artist is Present at its heart. I felt more connected to the resolution of Jane‘s storyline than I did to Arky‘s. I feel like the book didn‘t demand enough of him to put him in league with formidable women.

I do love me a book about arty farty stuff. Thanks @thegreensofa @BecH @CarolynM @Sarz #LMPBC @suvata

Started this a few hours ago.

This resonates: “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” #eecummings

A lot of performance art is just plain weird. I‘ve had to stop and look things up many times while reading this novel. Stelarc‘s ear in the arm is among the most grotesque. View at your own risk: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiBsJCepLLgAhWE1FkKHfRj...

Finished Hulse‘s The Adults (so fun — very much in the vein of Lianne Moriarty), so I‘m now reading another of my library books that‘s due in a few days. Of course, I had to stop and look up those Antony Gormley statues (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2010/mar/10/antony-gormley-new-york-sculptures) — interesting to know that the Marina Abramovic performance at MOMA was going on while these statues were all over NYC.

I was surprised by how much I liked this book. There was a lot of insightfulness about art, it's creation and audience responses to it, but I felt that it was a bit let down by some rather overblown and really quite pretentious elements. The author was trying a bit too hard, I think. A shame, because it could have been a really great novel. I liked the principal story, although I thought the way it ended was a bit pat. #LMPBC #GroupX #ozfiction

Engrossing book. I really wasn‘t convinced it would be interesting when I first picked it up. I was wrong. What‘s fascinating is that the backdrop of the story is a real performance art piece.
https://vimeo.com/72711715

I loved this novel and was absolutely fascinated by Marina Abramovich. It helped that I was in New York while reading it (though ran out of time to visit MOMA). My one criticism is that a few of the perspectives really lost the momentum that had been built particularly when the character Jane receded into the background.

My first read of the year and first for #newyearwhodis
Really, really good so far - so different!

There was something special about reading this as I flew to the USA for the first time especially as I‘ll be visiting New York. Wish I could have seen this piece of performance art, but will definitely visit MOMA.

#humpdaypost @MinDea
1. Me and my 2 favorite guys on our vacation this summer at Shenandoah National Park
2. Only to read 85 books and read what I want when I want
3. Best - went on great trips with family and friends Worst - watching my father decline severely from Alzheimer's
4. Just to try to get together with friends I haven't seen in a long time
5. Tagged and really good so far!

What a marvelously bizarre, thought provoking, moving book. A perfect start to my 2019. What a journey to read.

#MyFirstReadOf2019 This was an unexpected book but in a truly wonderful way. Based on real life performance artist Marina Abramovic, the novel focuses on the 78 days Mariana sat on a wood chair at the MoMA and asked others to sit and engage with her, one on one in TOTAL SILENCE. Heather Rose has created her own performance piece with this novel. https://youtu.be/5R8kL3k4fd0 Not sure how I will use this for challenges but rest assured I will 😉

#MusicalNewYear #SeasonsOfLove

This is a really original story set against the backdrop of Marina Abramovic's, The Artist is Present.

I‘ve seen quite a bit of #litsylove for it recently, which is great to see.

#ozfiction

Fell asleep at some point, have about a third of the book left, but no better way to enter a new year than reading!

One more before 2019, can I make it?

Trying to choose which to start for my next read... hesitating on Children of Blood and Bone because it‘s big but I hear it‘s a really quick read/page turner. Any thoughts appreciated!

Wonderful story exploring the rigors of true commitment as it relates to love, grief, art, and the human longing for connection. Based around real events, the reader glimpses the lives of some characters who have come to see Marina Abramovic‘s ‘The Artist is Present‘ at MoMA. A delightfully thought-provoking, meditative read. On #Hoopla. 4⭐️