Tokyo Heist by Diana Renn Pages : 364 Genre : YA, Mystery Stand Alone My rating : 4/5 From Seattle to Tokyo, Tokyo Heist takes you to beautiful Japan to solve the case of a missing Van Gogh. Art, squid chips, kimonos and a touch of romance are on the menu for this colorful adventure, in this novel by debut author Diana Renn. What it’s about : Between pining for her best friend and working at the comic-books store, Violet’s...

Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay by Christopher Benfley Pages : 270 Genre : Non-Fiction Stand Alone My Rating : From the Book’s Jacket : An unforgettable voyage across the reaches of America and the depths of memory, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay tells the story of America’s artistic birth. Following his family back through the generations, renowned critic Christopher Benfey unearths an ancestry- and an aesthetic-that is...

Napoleon’s Tomb, Les Invalides, Paris 2010. One of the most impressive place we visited on our trip! For more Wordless Wednesday, click...

I never stop looking for art on the subject of reading, and I was a bit surprised to realize it’s been over a year since I did one of these posts! The third one focused on children being read to; this time around, I chose paintings of young girls reading by themselves. Oh, the magical world of books! Small Young Girl Reading by Seymour Joseph Guys, 1877 Ethel Reading Bluebeard by Alfred Morgan 1881 Reading Girl by Bremen Johann Georg...

An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin Pages : 292 Genre : Fiction, Art Stand Alone My Rating : What it’s about : An ambitious young woman, Lacey is ready to take the New York art market by storm. With both wits and looks on her side, Lacey has no problem making her way up the social ladder while building herself a career. But her ascension is not without risks and difficult decisions, and her actions are not without consequences –...

La Fermière is a sculptural fountain realized by Alfred Laliberté in 1915, and located at the Marché Maisonneuve in Montreal. You can see the woman farmer on the top, young men struggling with animals at the center, and turtles splashing water all around. It is a most appropriate sculpture for the market Photographed by me on July 17th. For more Wordless Wednesday, click...

When visiting the famous Versailles on our trip to France a year ago, I was faced with a contradiction I have rarely met in my short photography life : as beautiful and rich in details and history as the place was, I found it almost impossible to photograph. Not because of the crowd – which was, let’s say it, an attraction in itself. You could hardly take a picture without having another tourist standing in the way. If photographs...

It’s been a little while since I’ve shared pictures of our trip to Paris, and yet there are so many I still need to go through! I think I’ve been doing it so slowly because I feel every time like I’m revisiting it for a small moment. Today I’m sharing some of the pictures I took while walking the streets. I didn’t take as many as I probably should have, but for the tourist that I was, walking Paris was like...