I think I liked this book more the first time I read it. It's still good, but I definitely liked certain stories better than others. "Morningshine" left the biggest impression on me last time (and probably this time too). I skipped most of "From the Personal Papers of Adriaan Kuypers" and "Hyacint...
This fictitious story revolves around an undiscovered, or perhaps, an unauthenticated Vermeer. It begins in the present day, where a professor invites a colleague to look at a painting he's kept hidden for decades. He insists that the art piece is by Johannes Vermeer: vehement in his study of the br...
This is the first book of the year reading challenge, which is a mix between Kat's TBR-Challenge and PopSugar's reading challenge. (I didn't have a jar so I put it in an old little tin box) For this month, I had to read a book I was supposed to read in school/uni but didn't. I generally read a...
This novel consists of 8 short stories, some first person and others third person, concerning a Vermeer painting and its owners from present day working back to when the work was created. The painting has a different meaning for each story's protagonist. The stories range through centuries of Dutch...
I got this book from my library's last used book sale for $.50 (hey, when did they get rid of the cent symbol from keyboards?). I had never heard of the book or the author but I figured I love historical fiction and I love books about art so this was probably a winner. And turns out, I was right. I ...
Girl in Hyacinth Blue follows a well-wornn trope that fans of the movie The Red Violin (a favorite of mine) will recognize: A painting hangs on the wall of a professors house. The artist did not sign it. There are no articles of provenance. But still. It might be famous. And we travel, in stories, b...
I think I was supposed to find this book more profound and moving than I did. Maybe it's the short story format, maybe it's some sort of distance created between the reader and the characters, but I wasn't feeling it. I did not like the first story at all, see my comments here:http://www.goodreads.c...
This is an interesting and thoughtful book. A painting, which is thought to have been one of Vermeer's, is followed through its' history, telling the stories of those who come into posession of it.
I like the way this author writes. This is one of those books where an object is the main character, rather than a person. In this case, the object is a (fictional) Vermeer painting of a girl sitting and looking out the window with her sewing in her lap. There are eight interconnected stories tha...
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