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Started "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" by Neil Gaiman yesterday...will probably finish it within the next few hours. So far I'm thinking 4/5 stars, the grammar can be weird sometimes and the story is more fantasy than I thought, but it's written well enough to keep me turning the pages.
Frida in America : the creative awakening of a great artist / Celia Stahr, c2020, St. Martin’s Press, 759.972 STAH.
Subjects
Kahlo, Frida.
Kahlo, Frida -- Psychology.
Expatriate artists -- United States -- Biography.
Artists -- Mexico -- Biography.
Summary
"The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today Mexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November, 1930, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York. Still, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental. Only twenty-three and newly married to the already world-famous forty-three-year-old Diego Rivera, she was at a crossroads in her life and this new place, one filled with magnificent beauty, horrific poverty, racial tension, anti-Semitism, ethnic diversity, bland Midwestern food, and a thriving music scene, pushed Frida in unexpected directions. Shifts in her style of painting began to appear, cracks in her marriage widened, and tragedy struck, twice while she was living in Detroit. Frida in America is the first in-depth biography of these formative years spent in Gringolandia, a place Frida couldn't always understand. But it's precisely her feelings of being a stranger in a strange land that fueled her creative passions and an even stronger sense of Mexican identity. With vivid detail, Frida in America recreates the pivotal journey that made Senora Rivera the world famous Frida Kahlo"-- Provided by publisher.
Length - xv, 383 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : chapter notes, image credits, index
An intense look @ Frida’s life & work while in the US. A formative experience for her, on top of all the other events in her life. An excellent view of her time in the US.
Started "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" by Neil Gaiman yesterday...will probably finish it within the next few hours. So far I'm thinking 4/5 stars, the grammar can be weird sometimes and the story is more fantasy than I thought, but it's written well enough to keep me turning the pages.
I still think about that book, having read it a couple of years ago.
I posted this on another thread about disappointing books:
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Originally Posted by CA4Now
I just finished All This Could Be Yours, by Jami Attenberg. I was so disappointed. It had been highly recommend by a friend and neighbor. Has anyone else read it? I kept thinking that surely there would be something redeeming about these characters if I just kept reading....
Even this review makes it look as if it were something brilliant.
I posted this on another thread about disappointing books:
Yeah, it was just ok, not horrible or anything (but just ok).
Did you read Saint Mazie? My mother read the book and loved it, so I will probably go on and read it.
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