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Life with Picasso | Franoise Gilot, Carlton Lake
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Just realized I completely forgot to read up for my #sundaybuddyread 🤦🏻‍♀️ I ended up working Tuesday - Friday to cover for a teacher off with the flu and I‘m in again tomorrow. My weekend got thrown driving to Toronto to pick up oldest who‘s come home from Uni to start a teacher practicum tomorrow, these chunksters are killing me #readingforecast #nonfictionnovember #europacollective #littenslovesjm

TheBookHippie 😳😅 WHEW we will be here … when ya catch up. 8h
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🥳 congratulations to your oldest on the teacher practicum journey 💝💝💝. 8h
mcctrish @TheBookHippie 🤞🏻 I get some quiet time 7h
mcctrish Thank you @AnnCrystal ❤️ 7h
TheBookHippie @mcctrish 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 7h
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Mona's Eyes | Thomas Schlesser
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Ch 40: Constantin Brâncuşi Look up. Mona has a second MRI ( I‘ve had one once and I never thought I was claustrophobic until that day) Mona and Dadé stop outside by the funnels ( lower left) actually called the ‘Igor Stravinsky Fountain‘ to watch a bird charmer which segues well into CB‘s ‘Bird in Space‘ c 1941( upper middle) which isn‘t housed in the main museum but in the Atelier Brâncuşi, a side building ( lower right) cont‘d

mcctrish You can see in that photo another version of ‘Bird in Space‘ with a much larger base and not made of bronze. The trouble importing a version of the statue into the US in 1928 seems reflective of the tariff drama that is ongoing now #europacollective 11h
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Atmosphere: A Love Story | Taylor Jenkins Reid
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I went out for coffee today. In the snow. I shall retire to my books for the remainder of the day.

Karisa Yum! Snow??! Already? 😵‍💫 (edited) 14h
mcipher It‘s so early!! I hope it was at least a pretty snow 13h
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mcctrish @Karisa @mcipher so early, most of our trees haven‘t lost their leaves yet 😢 and hopefully it doesn‘t stick around 13h
mcctrish @melissajayne the coffee was and the reading is and snow is bad 13h
ChaoticMissAdventures Snow?? So early! I hear people say things like they refuse to turn on the heat until X day and I think of them in times like these 😂 12h
mcctrish @ChaoticMissAdventures I do try to push out turning the heat on (& not turning the A/C on either conversely) but the heat is on for real 12h
AmyG Oh look…we have flurries. When is summer again? 12h
TEArificbooks My ac is still on. I keep trying to turn it off but it gets so hot inside still. 12h
mcctrish @AmyG winter hogs way too much of the year 11h
mcctrish @TEArificbooks it has to be really hot for me to put A/C on and humid (edited) 11h
melissajayne @mcctrish of course 😉 (edited) 11h
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Say You'll Remember Me | Abby Jimenez
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Saturday night is brought to you by a G&T and a new read

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I admire his transparency about his anxiety - it sounds so debilitating and exhausting
I‘m glad he thanks his wife becasue holy shit she lifts and carries the family often

Tamra Women do a lot of heavy invisible lifting.💜 1d
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Mona's Eyes | Thomas Schlesser
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Ch 39: René Magritte Listen to your subconscious. It‘s August and Mona has a birthday. She gets a puppy that Dadé refuses to bring on museum trips. So she will recount her visits to Cosmos like Marcel Broodthaers did with a cat ( lower left and middle). Surrealism is today‘s genre with RM‘s ‘The Red Model‘ ( upper left) the paining is classically painted with oils and technique but it‘s unsettling cont‘d

mcctrish “This painting isn‘t a total nightmare; it‘s more a bad dream that disturbs” Dadé talks about how boots are made from leather, tanned skin and this painting “a macabre nod to that practice” and I‘m feeling squeamish about my Uggs right now #europacollective 2d
BarbaraBB I love Magritte‘s works 1d
mcctrish @BarbaraBB I‘m not a huge surrealist fan - freaks me right out 1d
BarbaraBB It does! And yet.. a painting having that effect on me, wow 1d
mcctrish @BarbaraBB absolutely! The creativity, the ability to see that turmoil, embrace those demons and put it out there in such a way that people connect/interact 🤯 1d
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Saturday morning reading in bed to finish this. Please note the death tower in the background - all unread, not causing me any stress. I wanted to love this book and there are parts that I did, the magic, the sisterhood but the miscommunication went on too long and then wrapped up too fast and the bad guys weren‘t as awful as presented and all I know is it took way too long to finish it when I should have inhaled it 🤷🏻‍♀️maybe it‘s me

Ruthiella Love the death tower! 📚❤️ 2d
gossamerchild The death tower is so relatable! And I feel you on the miscommunication trope - I get that it creates tension, but sometimes it's just too much. 2d
dabbe #bookdeathtowersarecool 🧡🍁♥️ 1d
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Mona's Eyes | Thomas Schlesser
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Ch 38 Georgia O‘Keeffe The world is one flesh. Summer holidays are here & Mona is missing her friends, she decides to write a journal including all she has learned with Dadé. They go to see Georgia O‘Keeffe‘s ‘ Red, Yellow and Black Steak‘ ( upper right) GK is an American artist who exemplifies the Bigger is Better ideal that the US is well known for because of its size and fountain drinks ?. GK‘s painting is of Lake George ( lower right) cont‘d

mcctrish Lake George is at the foot of the Adirondacks and a popular focus for artists. GK is known for ‘biomorphism‘ how she paints makes the viewer think of parts of the human body aka female genitalia. The natural world become anatomical elements become abstract elements become elements of the world. I used GK for inspiration this week in grade 2, we used her poppies ( upper left) to create ours ( lower left) to get ready for Remembrance Day on Nov 11 2d
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Fridays | Andrew Johns
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#fridayhappyreadinghour apparently I‘m in my chunkster era on a few levels 🤷🏻‍♀️ wishing all who celebrate the happiest of Friday reading hours

dabbe Boy, I'll say! 🤣 2d
Aims42 I love a good chunky read as the weather turns cooler ☺️ Cheers!! 2d
mcctrish @dabbe no travel plans currently 😆😆😆 2d
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mcctrish @Aims42 I always think I will tackle them in the summer but fall really is the time 2d
Aims42 @mcctrish Same here 😆😁 2d
dabbe @mcctrish @Aims42 I so agree. There's something about reading a LLOONNGG book in the autumn/winter. Enjoy! 🧡🍁♥️ 2d
Aims42 @dabbe @mcctrish it‘s the best!! 🥰 2d
Tamra Snuggle in! ☺️ (edited) 2d
Cathythoughts Looking cosy 🥰 2d
AnnCrystal 📚🤩👍🏼💝. 2d
mcctrish @Tamra @Cathythoughts @AnnCrystal is it 5:30 or midnight? Who knows 😆 2d
AnnCrystal @mcctrish 👏🏼😂👌🏼📚💝. 2d
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Bag #5 this book is expressing really well how exhausting anxiety is 😢

TheBookHippie Wears me out. 😝😵‍💫 3d
mcctrish @TheBookHippie this is quite the look into my husband‘s brain 3d
TheBookHippie @mcctrish Its not how people think it is. That I know. 3d
AnnCrystal 💝🫂💝😘👍🏼🧩💝. (edited) 3d
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Mona's Eyes | Thomas Schlesser
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Ch 37 Kazimir Malevich Make yourself autonomous. Mona gets multiple eye tests done and passes all with flying colours. Her eye sight is exemplary. So Dadé takes them to see KM‘s ‘Black Cross‘ ( lower right) which is part of a new movement; Futurism. “..a movement that advocates constant change, the metamorphosis of everything, all the time, often with violence”. He wants to take painting back to elementary forms, pared down abstractions cont‘d

mcctrish The cross “which, being so pared down, one might think inoffensive, ended up causing some very serious problems” people thought KM was crazy and dangerous and was prohibited from producing these crosses ? which is funny because the museum attendant thinks Mona and Dadé are dangerous spending so much time looking at the ‘Black Cross‘ and orders them to move on #europacollective 3d
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Mona's Eyes | Thomas Schlesser
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Ch 36: Marcel Duchamp Stir everything Up. Paul causes a stir at the Sunday market with his prototypes of old dial phones converted to allow cell phones ( top left) & gets quite a few orders. Dadé and Mona head to Beaubourg walking by the Bazar de l‘Hôtel de Ville, BHV ( top right) which is where MD‘s ‘Bottle Rack‘ ( bottom right) originated from, he called it ‘ready-made‘. Later on MD would submit ‘Fountain‘ ( bottom left) to an exhibition cont‘d

mcctrish The exhibition claimed they would accept any/all contributions but didn‘t want the ‘ready-made‘ urinal. MDs stirring of the art world pot led to art movements like Dada, surrealism and pop art. MD “wants to break conventions. Always. …. he draws our attention to society‘s ways, to what it decided is normal. “ we need artists to push boundaries #europacollective 4d
BarbaraBB I loved that I just had read about him in that other #EuropaEdition book (edited) 4d
mcctrish @BarbaraBB ❤️❤️❤️ 4d
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Next up on audio and bag #3

AnnCrystal 🤩🧩 💝. 5d
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Mona's Eyes | Thomas Schlesser
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Ch 35: Vassily ( Wassily) Kandinsky Find the spiritual in each thing. The school year is ending for Mona and so is elementary school too, a major milestone. A new museum for us, Centre Georges-Pompidou ( upper left photo) but called by most French “Beaubourg” the place, instead of the modern art loving French President. The art today, ‘Study for the cover of the Almanach Der Blue Reiter‘ is actually a journal cover for a group of artists cont‘d

mcctrish The ‘Blue Reiter‘ is a rallying symbol for the group that VK belongs too. Interestingly VK has a painting called ‘The Blue Rider‘ c1903 (top right) Mona says “A rider is free; he gallops wherever he wants to….This blue rider is an allegory of our mind, which can go wherever it wants.” A apt rallying symbol for the artist group (middle right). The famous Kandinsky painting ‘Color Study. Squares with Concentric Circles‘ c1911 ( middle lower) cont‘d 5d
mcctrish was inspiration for many art classes I‘ve done including Kandinsky chickens ( lower left) I did with a grade 1 class 5d
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Doubling up on coffee this morning

Bookwormjillk Good plan 6d
TheBookHippie Solidarity! 6d
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I‘ve had my air pods in all day! I‘ve vacuumed, washed toilets, made apple crisp, made Rice Krispie squares using Count Chocula cereal, done bag #2 on the Botanical Garden, multiple loads of laundry and dug up the tomato plants just in time for yard waste pick up 👏🏻👏🏻✊🏻 and finished this book in a day. I had no idea you could get TB beyond your lungs! Also we need to take better care of each other! #nonfictionnovember

TheBookHippie We really do!!! 6d
5feet.of.fury Oooh count chocula treats 🤤 sounds delish 6d
Julsmarshall This book was so good! 6d
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mcctrish @Julsmarshall I love this kind of non-fiction 6d
AlaMich The Rice Krispie treats sound amazing with Count Chocula. 6d
kspenmoll Just WOW! A work demon! 6d
Tamra You had an amazing day! 6d
AnnCrystal 👏🏼😋🤩🧩💝. 6d
Sparklemn That‘s amazing! 6d
mcctrish @5feet.of.fury @AlaMich they really are extra delish 6d
mcctrish @kspenmoll @Tamra @Sparklemn @AnnCrystal I‘m in winter nesting mode 😆 6d
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I have waited forever for this but now that it is #nonfictionnovember the timing is perfect

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Mona's Eyes | Thomas Schlesser
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Ch 34: Piet Mondrian Simplfy. Mona‘s last hypnosis session = the truth is out about her sight failing twice, Mona‘s last Wednesday at Musée d‘Orsay but art therapy will continue over summer vacation ? PM‘s ‘Haystacks III‘ c1908 (top right) what?! This can‘t be Mondrain! says everybody everywhere. And so we learn. ‘Mill of Heeswijk‘ c1904 is an early Mondrian when he was doing a Vermeer-ish realism style. Then he found Expressionism cont‘d

mcctrish Expressionism is when “.. (a) lived sensation prevails over real perception” which is very present in ‘Windmill in Sunlight‘ c1908 ( lower middle) both Windmill and Haystacks are in PM‘s midpoint of evolution as a painter. He embraces simplicity and evolves to the Mondrian everyone knows in ‘Tableau I‘ c1921 ( left) #europacollective 7d
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Autumn | Ali Smith
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Bag #2 of Botanical Gardens. I LOVE Ali Smith ❤️ and I love this book! Written in 2016 the divisiveness of Britain is reflective of the US right now, the art talk fed into my obsession with Mona‘s Eyes, and the relationship between young Elisabeth and old Daniel creating a bridge between generations ❤️❤️❤️ I can‘t wait to listen to the next 3 in this quartet

TheBookHippie I just started the book! 7d
mcctrish @TheBookHippie 🎉🎉🎉 7d
lil1inblue Ali Smith is such an amazing writer. This reminds me I still need to finish the last 2 seasons! 7d
AnnCrystal 🤩🧩💝. 6d
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Far From the Tree | Solomon, Andrew
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I am committed to finishing this, hopefully in November but absolutely in 2025. I started it in 2014, it was a gift. My plan then was to read a chapter a month. It is so full of information and real life stories, it can be overwhelming and break your heart. Today I read schizophrenia; “autism is characterized by an over abundance of synaptic connectivity, schizophrenia is marked by a dearth of it.” #nonfictionnovember #finishwhatyoustarted

dabbe That's a W😮WZA book! ♥️🍁🧡 1w
mcctrish @dabbe for 10 years I‘ve hoped to find it on audio 🙏🏻 and now I just have to get on with it 1w
janeycanuck Oh, wow, that sounds intense. You‘ve totally got this! (edited) 7d
mcctrish @janeycanuck here‘s to avoiding reality some more as I am want to do 😂😂😂 always with my head stuck in a book, damming the consequences 7d
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Autumn | Ali Smith
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I‘ve been waiting forever for this audio book and to start this massive Lego set - both are spectacular

Sparklemn I‘ve had this sitting on my shelf for a while now. Looking forward to your review. 1w
mcctrish @Sparklemn I have almost bought this 4 part story collection so many times - I love Ali Smith - I am loving the audio but the words are glorious and I wish I could slow down and read them over a few times at some points 1w
Hooked_on_books I have this set! It‘s a lot of fun to put together. 1w
mcctrish @Hooked_on_books I have saved it forever 1w
AnnCrystal 🤩🧩📚💝. 7d
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Where did I hear about this? Here, obviously, but from who? Holy Hannah this is freaking fantastic on audio and gruesome and unput down able when everything starts going to shit!!!!

Readergrrl I loved this book! Has stuck with me for years! 1w
ChaoticMissAdventures Ioved this!! I listen to it while solo hiking in Washington and it was perfect 😂 1w
mcctrish @ChaoticMissAdventures you are so brave!!!!! 1w
mcctrish @Readergrrl it‘s soooo real!!! 1w
GinaKButler I LOVED this audio!! So much fun! 1w
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Mona's Eyes | Thomas Schlesser
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Ch 33: Vilhelm Hammershøi Make your inner self talk. Paul‘s tinkering = success and Mona is ashamed that her joy for him is tinged with worry about him backsliding into drinking ? Dadé and Mona walk thru‘ the Tuileries Garden ( bottom left) for ice cream on their way to Musée d‘Orsay. The sunlight thru‘ the trees has Dadé telling her about ‘phosphene‘ light spots on the retina & Brion Gysin‘s ‘Dreamachines‘ ( upper right) cont‘d

mcctrish Both phenomena can put the viewer in a restful state, leading Dadé and Mona to VH‘s painting ‘Rest‘( upper left) which is meditative to view, soothing colours, the portrait‘s stillness, the viewer and the model contemplating the same wall. Dadé watching Mona thinks of René Magritte‘s ‘Not to be Reproduced‘ ( lower right) a lot of VH‘s work focuses on inner worlds, physical and mental, and serenity #europacollective 1w
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Life with Picasso | Franoise Gilot, Carlton Lake
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A little behind thanks to so much baseball 💔 so Sunday morning is for reading up for #sundaybuddyread with my coffee in a cup from Nice where I went to museums full of Picassos and my reading chair TBR is updated to include #finishwhatyoustarted #allergictochunksters #nonfictionnovember #literarycrew and my latest mini Lego set

Aims42 Ugh, what a heartbreaker of an ending 😢 1w
Cathythoughts Great pic. Enjoy your coffee x 1w
mcctrish @Aims42 there is some crying in baseball 1w
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ChaoticMissAdventures I am reading Far From The Tree this month too! It is a commitment. 1w
mcctrish @ChaoticMissAdventures I started this so long ago 🤦🏻‍♀️ I stalled out at schizophrenia and truthfully I have always wondered why he didn‘t include a chapter on women considering how some of the world feels about having a girl child 1w
ChaoticMissAdventures @mcctrish I just looked at the chapters yesterday, and was also immediately annoyed that there was a son chapter but nothing that spoke to women. Glad I am not alone there. 1w
TheBookHippie @mcctrish ugh so upset about the baseball. 1w
Aims42 @mcctrish very true! 😢💔 1w
janeycanuck Ugh, that game… right down to the very bitter end! May you be more successful in your quest to finish what you started! 1w
AnnCrystal 🤩🧩💝. 1w
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October's End | Horrified Press
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October wrap up has a lot of love stories in it in all the ways that love can be

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Mona's Eyes | Thomas Schlesser
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Ch 32: Gustav Klimt Let death wishes live. Mona is growing up, summer approaches and she worries about the time with her Dadé and art ending. They visit GK‘s ‘Rose Bushes Under the Trees‘ ( bottom left) which imo looks like magic painted onto a canvas which Dadé explains, with Mona‘s help, to be an explosion “an enthusiastic dynamism” this esthetic comes from Impressionism, mosaic based on tessellae ( bottom right) and decorative arts cont‘d

mcctrish What I learned; this painting was returned to heirs of original owners ( ‘sold‘ to Nazis in Vienna in 1938), Hitler applied to Vienna‘s Academy of Art in 1907 and was declined kicking off his villain era ( making his side gig of hoarding of art as he marched across Europe make sense) GK‘s famous painting ‘The Kiss‘ ( top right) was a bucket list see for me when we went to Vienna. It hangs in Belvedere Palace ( middle right) #europacollective 1w
GatheringBooks Wow, what a fantastic collage. Love the trivia bits, too. Haven‘t reached this part yet. 1w
BarbaraBB I saw The Kiss at the Klimt exhibition in the Van Gogh Museum last year and it was beyond my expectations 🤩 1w
mcctrish @BarbaraBB honestly GK had to have used magic when he painted 🤯 1w
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I agree with your assessment that he must have used magic. I'm always drawn to his work. There's a luminosity to them. 7d
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Fridays | Andrew Johns
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Happy Halloween and Let‘s Go Blue Jays 🎃⚾️

Aims42 Yessssss to everything about this pic!! 1w
LiseWorks Yes, Blue Jays 1w
Bookwormjillk Go Blue Jays! 1w
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CoverToCoverGirl Go Blue Jays!!💙💙💙 1w
AnnCrystal 🥳🎃👻💃🏽💛🧡🤍. 1w
Ruthiella 🎃👻🎃👻🎃 1w
dabbe YES! HH! 🖤🎃🧡 1w
peaKnit Pulling for those Blue Jays!! We love seeing Getty Lee is at the home games! 1w
peaKnit So sorry about the Blue Jays, but wow - game 7 was a good game even though the bad guys won. 1w
mcctrish @peaKnit what a bonkers game! I just want to read books now and maybe watch a movie on tv 1w
Sparklemn I am in love with Max Scherzer. 😍 I guess it‘s on to football. ☹️ 1w
mcctrish @Sparklemn same! I hope he stays with the Jays ( I guess he might retire) 1w
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Mona's Eyes | Thomas Schlesser
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Ch 31 Camille Claudel Love is a desire and desire is a lack of something. Mona is hypnotized again and is physically ill because of it ☹️ Mona & Dadé go to look at sculpture today, first they watch art students study Rodin‘s Thought ( top left) a portrait of Camille. ‘The Age of Maturity‘ ( top right) was a commissioned piece that CC used to show the fallout of her relationship with Rodin (bottom right) who returned to Rose, leaving CC cont‘d

mcctrish Rodin convinced the State to cancel the commission to save face, leaving CC ( bottom left) alone and thwarting her career. The Waltz‘ (lower centre) CC created at the beginning of her affair with Rodin is just the most gorgeous, beautiful and romantic sculpture EVER. It resides at Musée Rodin in Paris and is breathtaking irl. Rodin effectively kneecapped CC‘s career and she died in an institution, mentally unwell and unappreciated ?? 1w
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Mona's Eyes | Thomas Schlesser
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Ch 30: Vincent Van Gogh Pin down your dizziness. Mona is quite melancholy about her grandmother, Collette, & how little information she knows about her. Mona & Dadé look at ‘The Church of Auvers‘ (top right) Van Gogh loves the church & people but he is over empathetic so this love leads to madness. His infamous ‘Starry Night‘ was painted while he was recovering in a mental hospital. My Lego set (bottom right) captures the movement in the night sky

mcctrish The movement VG captures is a real phenomenon, not usually seen by the naked eye. https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/11/13/van-gogh-starry-night-fluid-dynamics-a.... There has been a lot said about the amazing feat VG has accomplished with his work. Sunflowers, ( bottom left) another Lego set of mine, is another well known work 🌻 of VG 1w
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From Bad to Cursed | Lana Harper
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Wine not Wednesday, finished this - I like this witchy series but some of the dialogue is cringe

JuniperWilde Love the 💙🐦 bowl 2w
mcctrish @JuniperWilde it brings them luck when I use it 😜 2w
Aims42 Keep using that bowl @mcctrish 💙 Game 6 on Friday, LETS GOOOOOOO, BLUE JAYS!!! 2w
mcctrish @Aims42 absolutely ⚾️⚾️🏟️🏟️🧢🧢 2w
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Mona's Eyes | Thomas Schlesser
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Ch 29 Edward Burne-Jones ( upper middle) Cherish melancholy. Mona teaches the class all about George Seurat and his painting and feels she is rubbish at it ☹️ she and Dadé look at ‘The Wheel of Fortune ( top left) and learn about the Pre-Raphaelites, a brotherhood of English painters “these artists sought to return to an ideal previous to Raphael” this is the Industrial Revolution era of Queen Victoria and immoral visions cont‘d

mcctrish Decadent is used to describe this period. We are back to allegory and internal emotions like melancholy. A writer at the time, Leopoldo von Sacher-Masoch, wrote ‘Venus in Furs‘ which inspired Lou Reed/The Velvet Underground to write a song of the same name ( top right) not unlike Taylor Swift‘s Life of a Showgirl/The Fate of Ophelia ( bottom left) being inspired by John Everett Millais‘ Ophelia ( bottom right) #europacollective 2w
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Devolution | Max Brooks
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I started this cute little Dia de los Muertos Lego set

5feet.of.fury I got that one for my anniversary but haven‘t had any time to make it 😩 it‘s a good one! 2w
mcctrish @5feet.of.fury I love the colours - it was on back order and just came today 🎉🎉 2w
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🤩🧩💝. 2w
Sparklemn Oooo… might have to order this 2w
mcctrish @Sparklemn do it!!!!! 2w
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Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
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A Pemberley Lego design by TJ Bricks has received enough fan support that it‘s reached the stage where Lego is deciding whether to turn it into a real set. This is the kind of joy I need in my life ❤️

AmyG Wow. My grandson watches TD Bricks videos on youtube. He is amazing. 2w
Suet624 So fun!!! 2w
TheBookHippie Oh wow!!!! 2w
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mcctrish @AmyG my son went down a rabbit hole looking up how many current popular sets came about by creative masterminds like TJ Bricks and they put Lego brick masters to shame 🤯 2w
mcctrish @Suet624 @TheBookHippie I don‘t care what it costs 😂😂 2w
TheBookHippie @mcctrish my son just looked at all the nominated to be sets two nights ago! Some really cool things. I agree about Lego Masters. 2w
TheBookHippie @mcctrish and cost? It‘s Lego. 🙃🤣👀🤷🏻‍♀️ 2w
Suet624 @mcctrish I never doubted that for a minute. 😊 2w
RaeLovesToRead Gahhhhhhhhh need 2w
mcctrish @RaeLovesToRead it‘s soooo pretty 2w
dabbe 🤩😍🤩 2w
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🥳🧩💝. 2w
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Ch 28: Paul Cézanne Come, fight, sign, and persist. Mona under goes hypnosis and is reliving being blind but keeps going back in time to being 18 mons and being with her grandmother. ‘Montagne Sainte-Victoire‘ was painted ‘on the spot‘ by Cézanne, he painted this sight over 90 times! Cézanne‘s style is more solid, he stacks paint like pieces on his canvas, than Monet, who dabs and dilutes his paint for an ethereal look. Cont‘d

mcctrish Cézanne says to “ tackle nature through the cylinder, sphere, and cone” meaning to break the world down into simple, understandable shapes giving it a child like quality but the effort he put into his paintings was equated with scaling the mountain. He was good friends with Émile Zola who encouraged him when his family did not “with genius you die; with money you eat” #europacollective (edited) 2w
GatheringBooks What a gift you are giving us here. Perhaps i should just read your notes here - rather than the book! Lols. 1w
mcctrish @GatheringBooks this book brings me so much joy I‘m happy someone/anyone enjoys my little recaps 1w
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Mona's Eyes | Thomas Schlesser
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Ch 27: Edgar Degas Life must be danced. Mona investigates her grandmother and finds a clue that is unsettling. Dadé and Mona look at The Star by Edgar Degas ( top right). I took ballet from age 5 to 16 and my studio had Degas prints hanging in it for inspiration like Dance Class ( top left I took at MOMA ) and The Star. The pose in The Star is ‘arabesque pencée‘ ( lower right) Dadé is comfortable talking about technique cont‘d

mcctrish Degas was known for mixing up techniques in his art, an experimenter in both painting and sculpture ( The Little Dancer bottom left) and for being a nightmare to work with, which Dadé doesn‘t want to share with Mona “(and) risk compromising what Henry wanted her to understand about the work” while Mona is too young to know everything about these artists, Degas was very problematic with the dancers 2w
BarbaraBB Great collage - again! 2w
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That didn‘t last nearly long enough but at least I‘m younger than when the author said you really need to start thinking about people dealing with your crap once you are dead. My parents, bless their hearts, totally dealt with their stuff ahead of time.

TEArificbooks Yeah my mom is a purger so she said I won‘t get a lot of money but at least I won‘t have to go through much stuff. I read Sipsworth and that lady was the last one left in her family so she got rid of everything, there was no one left to give heirlooms too so even got rid of her photo albums. Just kept the minimum number of clothes dishes etc. it did inspire me to let things go 2w
SamAnne My mom did an excellent job of purging. I am committed to tackling it this so this winter. 2w
mcctrish @TEArificbooks @SamAnne in the past I‘ve tried to give stuff away through Buy nothing groups or sell on FB marketplace but I get frustrated with messaging back and forth and I just want it all gone 2w
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ncsufoxes After my dad passed away last year my mom purged a ton of stuff. My MIL on the other hand complains that no one wants all her junk. I do think about the amount of stuff we have (especially after moving last year). It‘s a goal of mine in the next few years to really start to go through things & purge. I know that my kids aren‘t going to want half of the stuff I find sentimental 2w
mcctrish @ncsufoxes I remember when my husband‘s grandmother asking me if I wanted her collection of jugs ( she had 50 at least) and I said I‘d love of couple ( wrong answer) in the will I got her second tier crystal and my sister law got the fur coat, sapphire ring and Diamond earrings 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ 2w
AmyG My kids didn‘t want most of their grandparents things. Only the mid-century modern furniture…they fought over that. No china, crystal etc. kind of sad. 2w
mcctrish @AmyG I‘m surprised with the crystal, cocktails are trending and served in old school glasses - I know I‘m thankful for the fancy glass wear I inherited and I‘d be happy to have china I didn‘t have to pay for ( but some of it is ridiculously fussy like Old Country Roses or whatever it‘s called - my Nana‘s second tier China 😂🤦🏻‍♀️ her top tier was GORGEOUS and my sister got it ) 2w
5feet.of.fury Oh man, I‘ve cleaned out after 2 relatives that were borderline hoarding situations and it was so stressful on top of already being sad and stressful. But people asked if I was going to get a storage unit, and I decided if I didn‘t need it now then I wasn‘t going to need it ever. We didn‘t have anything too fancy for heirlooms but I did keep the Pyrex with the green daisies. 2w
AmyG @mcctrish They took the old school barware. Anything mid-century. 2w
Bette When did the book say to start…I know I‘m behind. 🫣 2w
mcctrish @Bette by 65, I‘m just under the wire 2w
Susanita It‘s a daunting task for sure. 🥴 2w
Bette Rats…..I‘m behind 🫤😂 I better put down my book 📚🤣 2w
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Trying to purge my way to better mental health today and I‘m not sure there is anything gentle about it

willaful Been working hard on this too and it's very stressful! 2w
mcctrish @willaful I laughed out loud when the author said men aren‘t good purgers and like to hang onto things and I‘m debating telling my husband about some of the things I‘m removing from this house 2w
AmyG I moved across country, so was forced to do alot of this. It‘s very hard. I still have more to do. 2w
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willaful @mcctrish I have done that, but I feel so guilty afterwards! Thankfully my husband has improved a lot, though his closet still rivals Fibber McGees. 2w
TEArificbooks My hubby will literally hang on to a pair of underwear until it has so many rips and holes it turns into a butt flap. So over the years I just throw away his hole filled underwear and socks quietly without him noticing. I think he thinks magical fairies keep them looking like new all the time (instead of me secretly tossing them and replacing them). I‘m a purger too. He would be a hoarder if not for me. 2w
SamAnne Okay, stacking. 2w
Bette Why is it so hard?! I keep trying…it‘s a lot. 2w
mcctrish @Bette I‘m trying to stick to one room at a time but the reality is I‘m ping ponging all over the house 2w
Bette I hear that. 2w
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Mona's Eyes | Thomas Schlesser
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Ch 26: Claude Monet All flees, all fades. Saint-Lazare Station (top right) lower right is a photo of the station today. Hélène, the curator, takes Mona and Dadé behind the scenes of Orsay to see Monet‘s painting set up as it was painted ‘sur le motif‘ (on the spot) on a 3 legged easel. Impressionism was known for this method of painting, thanks to portable paint. Mona gets to see behind the painting for the first time cont‘d

mcctrish The back of the painting is boring & beige, increasing the magic of the art & sense of fragility for Mona. Monet painted many of his works repeatedly to catch all of the angles & colours of light. His cathedral series based in Rouen ( bottom left) includes many paintings. This one hangs in Orsay, I took a picture of it because we had toured the cathedral earlier on our trip. Haussmann architecture ( top left) is symbolic of modern Paris 2w
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I finished my little Halloween Lego wreath and this book. I loved the insight into artistic inspiration but the domestic violence was hard to listen to. The insecurity/inner dialogue behind the violence was insightful and harrowing as you felt the frustration build. The dual time line was well done with characters in both mirroring each other which was fun until it was scary. There is a paranormal aspect to this story some might not buy into

Jess861 Very neat - love the wreath!! 2w
Leftcoastzen So cool! 2w
Christine The wreath!! 😍🧡🖤 2w
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Suet624 Love the wreath. 2w
TheBookHippie It‘s so cool! 2w
DebinHawaii Your wreath is so cute! 🧡🖤💜 2w
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🧩👏🏼🤩👍🏼💝💝💝.
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mcctrish @Jess861 @Leftcoastzen @Christine I love the colours so much 2w
mcctrish @Suet624 @TheBookHippie @DebinHawaii I have another little Halloween set coming ( it was on back order) I hope it comes so I can build before Friday 🙏🏻 2w
mcctrish @AnnCrystal it‘s a fun activity 2w
Mshookquilts That is darling! 2w
dabbe 💛🎃🧡 (just cuz it's almost Halloween) 2w
Meshell1313 Sooooo great! 😍 2w
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Mona's Eyes | Thomas Schlesser
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Ch 25 : Édouard Manet Less is more. More hypnotherapy for Mona, she sees her grandmother. Then the father of Impressionism, Manet. The Absinthe Drinker ( left) caused a fallout with his teacher, Luncheon on the Grass ( right) is turned down by the Salon and shown at the Salon des refusés where the public tries to deface it. His Olympia ( bottom) is of a prostitute and further cements his reputation of painting obscenities. Cont‘d

mcctrish Manet falls out with everyone. But the bourgeois class has money and wants art, not on the scale of kings and the Church so the still life momentum gains ground. This spear of asparagus was painted because a collector overpaid Manet for a still life of a bunch of asparagus and M painted one spear as a thank you. A ‘less is more‘ on canvas, showing the beauty in an everyday nothing. Making me think of our Friday joy posts #europacollective 2w
tpixie Great review. I love your background of the clock at Muséee d‘Orsay with Sacre-Coeur peaking out! ( I took that same photo there!) 2w
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From Bad to Cursed | Lana Harper
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#fridayhappyreadinghour Happy Friday Reading Hour to all who celebrate and 🎶Ok Blue Jays , Let‘s play ball 🎶 starting a new book and getting read for the game

kspenmoll Blue jay household here! 2w
mcctrish @kspenmoll 💙💙💙💙 2w
Aims42 Rooting for the Jays here in IL!! 💙🩵 2w
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mcctrish @Aims42 💙💙🎉 2w
Jess861 So excited for the game tonight! 2w
mcctrish @Jess861 ⚾️⚾️⚾️ 2w
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Mona's Eyes | Thomas Schlesser
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Ch 24: Julia Margaret Cameron Life flows into what is hazy. Mona and Dadé meet ‘friends‘ from the Louvre outside at Alfred Jacquemart‘s rhino stature ( centre) fun fact my city‘s museum has a rhino statue by Tom Benner outside too ? inside Dadé shows Mona JMC‘s photograph of Mrs Herbert Duckworth and launches into a long explanation of how photography worked then. Mona‘s takeaway; painting & photography were reversed then in effort, cont‘d

mcctrish The big debate in 19th c was whether photography was a technical process or art ( some people today continue to feel that way about many forms of art expression) Mrs Duckworth was the artist‘s goddaughter, posed for many painters AND was Virginia Woolf‘s mother 🤯 2w
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Mate | Ali Hazelwood
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There goes my day! I shirked all responsibilities today in favour of inhaling this, as one does. Not unhappy with my life choices. Tomorrow will bring enough adulting.

Aims42 Sounds like a good mental health day 😍 2w
mcctrish @Aims42 it was cold and miserable out so yay me 😂 2w
AnnCrystal 😅📚🥳👌🏼💝. 2w
LiteraryinPA I love that for you! 2w
mcctrish @LiteraryinPA 🥰🥰🥰 2w
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Ch 23: James Whistler A mother is the holiest thing alive. Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1 aka Portrait of the Artist‘s Mother. Who was 67 in the painting! Yikes, I‘m 61 and feel ancient all of a sudden. Whistler‘s signature is a butterfly because he underwent a metamorphosis after joining Chile to fight the Spanish colonists. He went from charming and whimsical to violent and vengeful.

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Mate | Ali Hazelwood
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Here I go, reading a recently purchased book instead of saving it forever as I am want to do

Tamra 😆 I do the same thing. 3w
Aims42 Wait, you can do that? Huh. 🤔 3w
mcctrish @Tamra I feel like they need to do some time on the death tower 😆 3w
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mcctrish @Aims42 🤷🏻‍♀️😂 3w
Aims42 @mcctrish @Tamara LOL! I always say they have to marinate a while on my TBR cart until they‘re “really ready” to be read 😆 3w
AnnCrystal 📚👏🏼🤩💝 Loved book one. Will look forward to your review on this ☺️📚💝. (edited) 2w
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This story is so INTENSE!

DrexEdit I ❤ your Lego pumpkin wreath! 3w
mcctrish @DrexEdit I am loving the colours 3w
AnnCrystal 🤩🧩💝. 3w
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Kill Her Twice | Stacey Lee
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I‘m ready for #sundaybuddyread I really enjoyed this historical murder mystery set in LA in 1932. Old Hollywood glamour, Chinatown, corrupt politicians/police, so many twists and turns it was hard to trust anyone or figure out what was a clue or a red herring.

AnnCrystal 📚👏🏼🤩💝. 3w
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Wednesday's Wrath | Don Pendleton
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#wdncw we do not care that the death tower is judging us! New books bring joy! Get. In. My. Cart.

dabbe The collection is just as important (if not more so) than the actual reading. You're collecting art. 🧡💜💛 3w
Suet624 I get such a feeling of joy when I see others having the same issue that I have. Yes, I have piles of books. Yes, I need more. 3w
AmyG I‘m off to the bookstore today. Yes, I need more books. 3w
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mcctrish @Suet624 @AmyG I have 13 books in my book outlet cart right now - I am trying to whittle it down but 🤷🏻‍♀️ 3w
mcctrish @dabbe they are just so comforting. And pretty 3w
lil1inblue This makes me want to buy more books. And I placed an order yesterday. 😂 3w
kspenmoll I suffer from the same “disease”!! 3w
TheBookHippie I get this!!! 3w
mcctrish @lil1inblue probably should wait until that order arrives 😂😂 3w
mcctrish @kspenmoll @TheBookHippie I am out of control 3w
AnnCrystal 😂🙋🏽🤣📚💝. 3w
mcctrish @AnnCrystal it is just so delightful to open a box full of books 3w
AnnCrystal @mcctrish 👏🏼😉 truly, like treasure 📚🤩📚💝. 3w
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Mona's Eyes | Thomas Schlesser
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Ch 22: Rosa Bonheur The animal is your equal. Plowing in the Nivernais. RB felt that animals had a beauty that equaled humans, giving them majesty in her painting. Similar to the bronze lion statue by Antoine-Louis Barye at the entrance of the Orsay. It is thought that George Sand‘s descriptions of animals in The Devil‘s Pool inspired RB‘s painting ( both the painter & the writer were unconventional women cont‘d

mcctrish Neither RB or GS were interested in society‘s expectations of women in their day. RB is showing in her paintings that the roles animal play in our lives should be questioned too 3w
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I LOVED The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches so this was a no brainer purchase. And I loved its cozy hygge found family message. But it is bittersweet 🙁 #iwantitall #magicandtheman

bookandbedandtea I love your mug 🖤 3w
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