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Auld Lang Syne: A Song and Its Culture | Morag Josephine Grant

Congratulations, @Sapphire & @Lesliereadsalot ! You‘ve been matched! 🥳

Your official reading list will be hopping its way to you via email within the next 48 hours.

You can start tracking those books down so soon!

Please note:
All reading for this event should begin on January 1st, 2026.

Thanks for participating!

📸: David Taberner (aka my bff)
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Sapphire Thank you @monalyisha! 2d

Lesliereadsalot Yes many thanks! 2d

Lesliereadsalot @Sapphire Excited to get your list! Plus you‘re a Europa follower! 2d

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Sapphire @Lesliereadsalot Same! Yes, love Europa and have a collection of paperback titles. I love the covers and paper quality as well as the works they publish. 2d

Sapphire @Lesliereadsalot are you reading with #europacollective or do you have another connection to the publisher? 16h

Lesliereadsalot @Sapphire I‘ve always found the Europa books to be interesting even when I didn‘t love them. I started reading with #EuropaCollective and then when the host stepped down was happy to resurrect it with @BarbaraBB They have some really great authors there! 10h

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Gabri�le | Anne Berest, Claire Berest

Today is the anniversary of artist Francis Picabia‘s death. Like his critics, I enjoyed his Impressionist work the best.
I do think Gabriële was his and others‘ muse.
I just still wish she had pursued her music ?
#EuropaCollective #EuropaEditions

JamieArc Huh. I haven‘t heard of him. Thanks for posting! 3d

tpixie @JamieArc I had not either. He‘s supposed to be one of the early cubist painters. We read this for #EuropaCollective because we love the postcard so much. Most, if all have not enjoyed this book as much… It is a somewhat interesting snapshot of the 1910‘s.

The Postcard

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Gabri�le | Anne Berest, Claire Berest

I decided to return to this book and slog through it before the end of the year. This is the restaurant where Gabriële and Francis Picabia dined with their friends before they sailed to America. It‘s still open today! What an exotic façade!
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Karisa What a perfect spot! 😍 3d

BookishMarginalia Looks pretty! 3d

mcctrish Oooo I feel like I need to go on a field trip 3d

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xicanti So pretty! 3d

tpixie @BookishMarginalia @Karisa @mcctrish @xicanti We do need to go on a field trip! Very unique color! It is the same color as it was described in 1913! 3d

Karisa 🙋🏻‍♀️ I would have my permission slip signed so fast! 💗 3d

tpixie @Karisa 😝 so funny! 😂 3d

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mcctrish

Mona's Eyes | Thomas Schlesser

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It‘s been 52 days of joy reading this lovely book, reliving artists I already know, meeting some new ones, reconnecting with 3 amazing museums that I visited on trips to Paris and cementing a life long love affair I have had with art and the power it has to inform, move, sooth and challenge. #europacollective

BarbaraBB Thanks for sharing all of that journey. I have enjoyed your posts very much ❤️ 2w

Lesliereadsalot You added so much to everyone reading this book! Thanks for all the pictures and insights 🩷 1w

mcctrish @BarbaraBB @Lesliereadsalot 🥰🥰🥰 I‘m so happy you enjoyed my posts - I‘m feeling a bit adrift without my daily art hit but the downhill slide into the holidays is about to gobble up all my time 😆 1w

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mcctrish

Mona's Eyes | Thomas Schlesser

Ch 52: Pierre Soulages Black is a colour. That black is the absence of all colour in art & science is ALWAYS a hurdle to believe. The Dr meets with Mona & Camille a final time, he‘s leaving his practice. He explains that Mona‘s subconscious has attached sight to her shell pendant & every time she removed it she lost her sight. He implored her to remember she has exceptional sight & not be fooled. Last trip to Beaubourg ( upper right) cont‘d

mcctrish Dadé and Mona go to see Pierre Soulages‘ ‘Painting 200x220 cm. 22 April 2002‘ black bands separated by chalk lines, mounted on another board with gaps areas showing white to contrast the black. Mona states each band reminds her of something else - “(grief, joy, growth, violence, and healing) she had detected its allegorical, moral, and sacred potential. “ and that black is a colour #europacollective 2w

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mcctrish

Mona's Eyes | Thomas Schlesser

Ch 51: Christian Boltanski Archive yourself. Paul is going to sell the store and Mona is afraid that Mamie‘s archive will be lost ( she is quite rude to her mother). She begs Dadé to store the archive and write about their lives. Perfect pairing with CB‘s ‘The Impossible Life of C. B.‘ ( all three images ) when I looked at the photo on the dust jacket I thought I was looking at panels with quilt-like metallic pieces on them cont‘d

mcctrish Then I read the description of the art piece and screen capped close up photos to get a better idea of what Mona felt looking at one box, not really possible imo. I did think of “The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning” and all the objects we leave behind when we die. A long, well lived life amasses an overwhelming amount of memories and memorabilia, my family will inherit a lot of books 😆 #europacollective 2w

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mcctrish

Mona's Eyes | Thomas Schlesser

Ch 50: Marina Abramović Separation is an opportunity to seize. Mona‘s word in French class is euthanasia, the class is riveted & the teacher thinks she had help. Mamie was an advocate for dying with dignity right from the beginning. Dadé takes Mona to see MA‘s ‘Boat Emptying, Stream Entering, White Dragon: Standing, Red Dragon: Sitting, Green Dragon: Lying‘ ( upper right) an interactive art piece that you use your whole body to experience cont‘d

mcctrish MA created this piece after being in China ( lower right) MA and her partner, Ulay ( a photographer) each walked across China from different starting points and met in the middle. Then they broke up. They were well known collaborators in art ( lower left) ‘Rest Energy‘ and life. The world was shocked. The dragons in the ‘Boat/Stream‘ piece invite people to sit, stand and lie on her art to feel it with their whole body. Immersion #europacollective 2w

BarbaraBB I went to this big MA exhibition and I will never forget it. Made me cry, laugh, shiver, shock. Fantastic. 2w

mcctrish @BarbaraBB that sounds so exciting and amazing 2w

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Mona's Eyes | Thomas Schlesser

Ch 49: Louise Bourgeois Know how to say no. Mona is still mad at her mom but realizes Camille was looking for the Drs report on her sight when she stumbled upon the journal. So Mona summarizes the report for her parents and Camille knows it‘s time to tell the truth about Mamie. Dadé also realizes that Mona has internalized Mamie‘s last message to her “Forget the negative….keep the light forever inside you” cont‘d

mcctrish Mona can‘t use the negative form ( and that‘s not a safe way for a young girl to move through the world) Dadé wears a tie ( upper centre) made by Louise Bourgeois & a gift from Mamie covered in ‘No‘s to show Mona LB‘s Precious Liquids ( lower right), an installation “reminiscent of the circuits within the body” Mona sneaks inside ( lower left) and says it feels magical - it encompasses childhood & adulthood, maternity & paternity #europacollective 2w

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