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...
2.5/5 StarsThis book started off incredibly slow for me, picked up a tiny bit towards the middle and then slowed down again towards the end. I thought I would have loved this book due to the setting, story line and darkness of it, but the writing turned me off with its dryness. I simply felt that it...
"It is about being born downtrodden and staying that way. Hard work makes no difference, he is saying. My lot, the lots of those around me, were cast the moment we were born into the gutter to parents who never managed to step outside the gutter themselves."The Painted Girls is a story about fightin...
"The Painted Girls" is a fictionalized account of three real women: Antoinette, Marie and Charlotte van Goethem, all of whom were ballet dancers in the Paris Opera (although only the latter made it her ultimate career).The story begins with Marie and Charlotte being taken for an audition by Antoine...
As probably many other readers I grabbed this book because I love Edgar Degas' paintings so much and really this is one of those situations when the cover alone would have probably sold me on this book. But I could not put the book down when I started it - Antoinette and Marie just come so so aliv...
From Linus's Blanket Cathy Marie Buchanan captivated me with her first novel, The Day The Falls Stood Still, so I had high expectations for herThe Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan 215x323 Readings: Marmee and Louisa by Eve LaPlante & The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan follow-up novel Th...
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