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Holli
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| I loved this book about the Japanese picture brides who came to this country early in the 20th century hoping for a better life. It reminded me of a haiku in that there are just enough words and no more; it touches the reader's emotions without telli...more | |
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rated a book 4 of 5 stars
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A small book that is big on ideas. Philosophical. I especially liked the discussions of history: "We need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us." (p. 13) "History is that certainty prod...more |
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“The fields that push up the corn, and the water that rushes down the ravine, the juice of the grape, and the life of a man as it flows past him, are all one and the same thing. The sole unity in life is the unity of rhythm. A rhythm to which we all dance; men, apples, ravines, ploughed fields, carts among the corn, houses, horses, and the sun. The stuff that is in you, Gauguin, will pound through a grape tomorrow, because you and the grape are one. When I paint a peasant labouring in the field, I want people to feel the peasant flowing down into the soil, just as the corn does, and the soil flowing up into the peasant. I want them to feel the sun pouring into the peasant, into the field, the corn, the plough, and the horses, just as they all pour back into the sun. When you begin to feel the universal rhythm in which everything on earth moves, you begin to understand life….”
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Irving Stone
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Holli
rated a book 4 of 5 stars
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| I really enjoyed this book. Stone did a good job getting inside Vincent's head and showing us the world as he experienced it. It is a testament to Stone's storytelling abilities that I found myself rooting for Vincent--hoping he would sell a painting...more | |
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Three years after her sister Anne-Marie died, Nina Sankovitch was living a helter-skelter life, making a mad dash away from the grief and pain, unable to accept her loss. She knew she needed to ditch the hectic schedule, hold still, reflect, and m...
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“We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”
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Thich Nhat Hanh
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Holli
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rated a book 4 of 5 stars
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| I used this as a basis for a Coffee Club program at the library. Easy format to use--basic information without too much reading, interesting anecdotes, good representation of paintings. Note: it is a small book, not the usual coffee table size art bo...more | |
“We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh
― Thich Nhat Hanh
“When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true--such things, for instance, as that the earth goes round the sun, and that it is not flat but round. But the things that seem really likely, like fairy-tales and magic, are, so say the grown-ups, not true at all. Yet they are so easy to believe, especially when you see them happening.”
― E. Nesbit
― E. Nesbit
“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”
― Virginia Woolf
― Virginia Woolf
“And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.”
― Anne Lamott
― Anne Lamott
“That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you onto another book, and another bit there wiill lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive--all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment. ~from The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”
― Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
― Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
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