Month: May 2021

L’Origine: The Secret Life of the World’s most Erotic Masterpiece by Lilianne Milgrom

L’Origine: The Secret Life of the world’s most erotic Masterpiece by Lilianne Milgrom Published by Little French Girl Press on July 28th, 2020 Genres: Art, Historical Fiction Pages: 288 Format: ARC Source: France Book Tours Buy on Amazon Goodreads The riveting odyssey of one of the world’s most scandalous works of art. In 1866, maverick French artist Gustave Courbet painted one of the most iconic images in the history of art: a sexually explicit portrait of a woman’s exposed genitals. Audaciously titled L’Origine du monde (The Origin of the World), the scandalous painting was kept hidden for a century and a half. Today, it hangs in the world-renowned Orsay Museum in Paris, viewed by millions of visitors a year. As the first artist authorized by the Orsay Museum to re-create Courbet’s The Origin of the World, author Lilianne Milgrom was thrust into the painting’s intimate orbit, spending six weeks replicating every fold, crevice, and pubic hair. The experience inspired her to share her story and the painting’s riveting clandestine history with readers beyond the confines of the art world. L’Origine is an entertaining and superbly researched work of historical fiction that traces the true story of the painting’s unlikely tale […]

Posted May 8, 2021
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Library Card – May 2021

Greetings all you lovely people! I’ve been eying all your gorgeous monthly wrap-up posts and your plan-to-read posts for a while now. It really is a way to streamline your month just a little bit better. As you know, my Mommy means the world to me, but she can also irritate the living daylight out of me. Mostly because she is so ridiculously unorganized. How she ever manages at school and with running a library and her own business, really is beyond me. She never, ever knows what is going on in her reading life. She’s got this amazing system at school for the students to control their library books and cards and she always knows exactly what book is with what student and where their library cards are. It’s an easy enough system with each child being assigned a barcode to a little stick that they can decorate as they want. And then it hit me! That’s what we need! We need our very own library card. And I’ll take possession of it and make sure my Mommy sticks to it. If she doesn’t, I will penalize her the same way she penalizes the kids at school when their […]

Posted May 6, 2021
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Wednesday Wisdom from The Dreamers

Have you ever noticed that sometimes you need to read a certain book at a certain time? If you read it at any other time, the impact is just not the same. My Mommy is busy sorting out the Book Club’s books that need to be returned to the D.E.A.R. ladies end of May and as you can guess, she now realizes how many books she still needs to read. We’ll tell you more about the Book Club in a later post. Anyhows, one of the books my Mommy is/was frantically trying to finish before they need to be returned to their rightful owners, is The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker. This book has been in the Book Club since early 2019 and it wa published in January 2019. In an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a freshman girl stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep—and doesn’t wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics who carry her away, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. Then a second girl falls asleep, and then another, and panic takes hold of the college and spreads […]

Posted May 5, 2021
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The Sunday Post #37

Greetings Humans! What a wonderful week we’ve had! Not only did my Mommy manage to publish 5, five, ?????, posts this week, but all her school work is also up to date. But wait! There’s more! We couldn’t have ben more proudly South African than we were last Sunday night. “My Octopus Teacher, the SA Netflix documentary that caught the world’s attention when it was released last year, has taken home the Oscar for Best Documentary. The documentary was a firm favourite going into the awards after scooping 20 international awards in the lead up to the ceremony. It tells the story of filmmaker Craig Foster befriending an octopus in a life-changing journey documented on film.” Congratulations to our fellow South African hotshots. Halala! Adding to the Litter We shouldn’t be adding anything to our toppling TBR list and especially not on the Review pile. We are falling a little bit behind. But as you know, my Mommy tend not to listen to the wisdom of her fluffy white cat. Einstein: The Fantastic Journey of a Mouse through Space and Time by Torben Kuhlmann – From Netgalley. This was the first time we’ve requested a kiddies book from […]

Posted May 2, 2021
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Six Degrees of Separation – I know what you did and I’m telling Mom!

Greetings you all! Can you believe it’s the 1st of May already? At least this year we know what the date is. Last year this time nobody had a cat’s tail idea what day it was on most given days. We didn’t do a Six Degrees of Separation in April, but we are back this month. I’m sure by now you all know the rules of this monthly fun meme hosted by Books are my Favorite and Best: On the first Saturday of every month, a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six other books to form a chain. Books can be linked in obvious ways, for example: same authors, same era or genre, or books with similar themes or settings. Or you might choose to link them in more personal ways: books you read in the same holiday, books given to you by a particular friend or books that remind you of a particular time in your life. The choices are endless here! Our starting point this month is the first book in series that kids all over the world have loved for 20 years. Nine-year-old Beezus Quimby has her hands full with her little sister, […]

Posted May 1, 2021
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Month: May 2021

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