On to the Beaubourg section. I love that Georgia O'Keeffe painting. #europacollective
BarbaraBB I loved that part of the book 1d
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On to the Beaubourg section. I love that Georgia O'Keeffe painting. #europacollective
Great news! Mona‘s eyes is shortlisted for the 2025 Barnes & Noble Book of the Year!!
#EuropaCollective
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/2025-book-of-the-year-finalists/
pickRead for #europacollective —this was definitely not on my radar. I have mixed feelings about it because I found it to be long and repetitive, but that was part of the point. Mona, a young French girl, temporarily loses her sight. She spends time with her grandfather in the Louvre, instead of therapy appointments. They spend the whole book exploring works of art and finding meaning in their own lives. I must admit, I was rather bored off and on.
Hope everyone had time to read this book for #EuropaCollective! Just a reminder that we‘ll be discussing the book next Saturday, November 1st. We‘ll have lots of provocative questions to get things going and can‘t wait to hear all your thoughts. Special thanks to everyone who posted about this book during the month. Feel free to add your name or request to be dropped from the tagged list. See you Saturday!
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pickAnother incredible book in the Road to Dalton series. If you haven‘t read these three books about a group of average people living in small town Maine, put them on your TBR list. They are so beautifully written, the descriptions of the characters‘ thoughts and feelings magical. Just ordinary people, living their lives, dealing with the hands they‘ve been dealt. These books ring so true. #EuropaCollective actually led me to the first one!
Ch 18: Caspar David Friedrich Close your bodily eye. A Tree of Crows giving Gothic Romance vibes with a murder of crows in a dead oak tree by a the burial mound of a Hun warrior. The Huns came from an island off the coast of Germany called Rügen known for chalk cliffs like Dover. I feel like the Brontës and Poe fit well here. I also think Mona‘s bedazzlement of the headgehog is = to an art installation #europacollective
Ch 15: Jacques-Louis David Use the ancient as your future. Mona wants to set up Vertunni displays in her father‘s store, almost loses her pendant and sees spots = a bit of a roller coaster ride. The artist, JLD, is putting the Rococo movement to bed with this massive royal commission that portrays male sacrifice in a polished and precise style. The completion of this painting kicks off the French Revolution. #europacollective cont‘d
I‘m really savouring this book. This chapter on Pierrot by Antoine Watteau just spoke to me 🤍 #europacollective
Ch 14: Marguerite Gérard There‘s no such thing as the weaker sex. Mona stands up to bullying and Dadé shows her a recent acquisition of an overlooked female painter, MG, who brings her A game! Sumptuous fabrics, furs, a painting within a painting, mirrored reflections of what happens out of the scene and a Vermeer inspired focus on women doing women‘s work aka whatever they want and doing it well #europacollective
Ch 13: Thomas Gainsborough Let feelings be expressed. Dadé debates sharing artists who overcame physical impairments with Mona but she controls the visit wanting to see lovers, who break the 4th wall inviting the viewer into their delight with each other. Who doesn‘t want to distract themselves with pretty things when the world is a shit show? #controlyourenvironment #controlthenarrative #europacollective
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