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What the....What... I just.....I have no words.Actually, I have words. A lot of them. This book was a big mess. Marie was kind of bland. Antoinette was the only interesting character but her compulsive lying, her being so dependent on Emile, her refusal to see the truth about Emile, just irritated m...
Review first published on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-painted-girls.htmlThe Painted Girls is a book that can be read on many different levels.At the highest level, it is a picture of a time and place in history. It is the late 1800s in Paris - the time of the Paris Op...
About halfway through this book, I was having some trouble getting into it. I had just picked it up, mainly because of the reference to Degas, and started reading without knowing the context of what the author wanted to do (or reading the reviews here first -- okay, yeah, I liked the cover). At th...
This is an interesting read. The story has two narrators, Marie and Antoinette van Goethem, sisters on diverging tracks in their lives. Marie is the model for some of Degas' most famous paintings and sculptures and the sisters were real, though parts of the story have been fictionalized, like Antoin...
Ms. Buchanan charmed me with her first book “The Day the Falls Stood Still” and she did not disappoint with this book. She researches her topics well and incorporates her historical facts into a fascinating story giving the reader a taste of the reality of the life of her characters in the Paris of...
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