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Two strangers find themselves stranded at sea together in this epic new love story by bestselling author Beth O’Leary.
What if you were lost at sea…with your one-night stand?
Zeke and Lexi thought it would just be a night of fun. They had no intentions of seeing each other again. Zeke is only in town for the weekend to buy back his late father’s houseboat. Lexi has no time for dating when she needs to help take care of her best friend’s daughter.
Going back home with a stranger seems like a perfect escape from their problems. But a miscommunication in the dark, foggy night means no one tied the houseboat to the dock. The next morning, Zeke and Lexi realize all they can see is miles and miles of water.
With just a few provisions on the idle boat, Zeke and Lexi must figure out how to get back home. But aside from their survival, they’re facing another challenge. Because when you’re stuck together for days on end, it gives you a lot of time to get to know someone—and to fall in love with them.
“Sometimes the biggest moments in your life are disguised as nothings.”
“If you’re the sidekick for long enough, you forget how to lead your own life.”
“Life is full of extremes right now. Either I’m doing absolutely fuck-all for hours on end, or I’m dashing around panicking.”
My Thoughts
This might be my least favorite of all the author’s books. I can’t go into detail without spoiling it, but there’s a lot of big traumatic stuff casually thrown around like it’s nothing. If you’ve read the book or don’t mind spoilers, you can click on the arrow below.
Spoiler
It’s not really lighthearted romance, it’s quite serious and traumatizing, tbh. Also, the MMC having sex at 16 with a 28yo for two months, and then numbing himself with sex with 65 partners for years afterwards. And Penny getting pregnant with his child 4 years ago and never telling him, with no remorse on her part and yet it was just…forgiven? This is a whole lot of fucked up shit.
I have no issues with serious topics being covered in a romance, if it’s done right, but in this case, it’s the fact that they are presented as normal. Also, I usually really enjoy the forced proximity trope, but the circumstances were just too scary in this book. I feel like this at this point, the story should’ve been categorized under survival fiction or drama, and the romance shouldn’t be a part of it at all. More care should’ve been given to the sensitive topics, imho.
My Rating
⭐⭐/5 stars.
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s Space Shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.
Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s Space Shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.
Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easy-going even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warm-hearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane.
As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.
Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, everything changes in an instant.
Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, with complex protagonists, telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love, this time among the stars.
It’s a TJR book, plus Julia Whelan narrates it. Of course I’m reading it!
The Quotes
“Happiness is so hard to come by. I don’t understand why anyone would begrudge anyone else for managing to find some of it.”
“You are what you are, and I like what you are. Anyway, nobody is one thing all the time.”
“In all of her time spent watching others, she hadn’t picked up on this part of falling in love, that someone could look at you as if you were the very center of everything. And even though you knew better, you’d allow yourself a moment to believe you were worthy of being revolved around, too.”
“So when you look out at the sky, the farther you can see, the further back you are looking in time. The space between you and the star is time.”
The Narrator(s)
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Julia Whelan, Kristen DiMercurio. TJR narrated the Author’s Note. Julia Whelan and Kristen DiMercurio read the different timelines of the book. They were both great, and of course, everyone knows I love Julia Whelan!
My Thoughts
This book packs 100% emotional damage. I know it’s a little dramatic but I was genuinely emotionally wrecked at the last part of this book and I was sobbing so loudly the night I finished it that my husband was completely perplexed. He asked me the next morning, hesitantly, to tell him about the book because he wanted to know why I was crying so hard, and so I told him the summary, and started crying again!
I don’t know why the book hit me so hard, I can’t even say it’s my favorite TJR book, and I do have issues with the storytelling/time jumps and feeling like they spoil the story for me. It’s just that the whole scene at the end was so emotionally powerful. It was hit after hit after hit, and a KO punch at the end!
Well, now that we’ve established that I’m a huge crybaby, let’s move on. I loved the story; I love reading about how life might have been like for female astronauts breaking into a male dominated space. I love seeing the women navigate their environment, and I love that different coping methods were represented, not all good ones. Times are different now, I know, but I like that Lydia’s reasoning for why she does that was discussed, because I can see her pov as well. I also love how Lydia learned and grew as a person. Not saying that I like her as a person, but I love her character!
Overall, I loved the story, and I guess I loved being emotionally destroyed, but as I said, I’m not sure I like the timeline edits, and I’m also on the fence about where the story ended. I feel like it ended there for maximum emotional impact, but I also feel like the story is unfinished. I wanted to know more about everyone else; there were other characters’ stories that felt unresolved and I needed more. I feel like it might have been better served with an epilogue. Still a great story by one of my favorite authors!
My Rating
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 stars.
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‘Everything is finished. I have nothing but you now. Remember that’
Anna Karenina seems to have everything – beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike and soon brings jealously and bitterness in its wake. Contrasting with this tale of love and self-destruction is the vividly observed story of Levin, a man striving to find contentment and a meaning to his life – and also a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself.
This has been on my TBR for a while. I had a few false starts last year but there was a buddy read this year that motivated me to finally finish it.
The Quotes
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.”
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
“Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.”
The Narrator(s)
Maggie Gyllenhaal. She was great! I enjoyed her narration a lot more than the one I tried last year (forgot who the narrator was, but it wasn’t Maggie!).
My Thoughts
I honestly love Tolstoy’s writing and the way he keeps me invested, interested, in suspense, never knowing what’s coming next, but I also didn’t like the characters and the over-the-top drama and toxicity, and I’m just so happy it’s over!
I thought I would like Anna’s character more, but I couldn’t stand her once we got to know her more and I really hated her by the end of the book. In fact, I didn’t really like any of the characters much, but funny enough, I loved the character study and I was very impressed by the way Tolstoy kept me interested in them throughout the whole book.
There was so much to explore with the different characters; their behaviors, motivations, growth or non-growth. I never knew where they were going to go or what they were going to do, but it also never felt unrealistic to me. I just love Tolstoy’s writing and I definitely want to read more, but I feel like I never want to read this book again because I’m so sick of Anna and I never want to see her again. Fortunately, Tolstoy has got several other books I can read, so I’m looking forward to those!
My Rating
⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 stars.
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When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is—but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island’s unwelcoming animal inhabitants.
As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home—until, one day, the robot’s mysterious past comes back to haunt her.
From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed novel about what happens when nature and technology collide.
I loved the movie! I didn’t know there were books but came across them as I was browsing my library’s catalog and just had to read them!
The Quotes
“The island was teeming with life. And now it had a new kind of life. A strange kind of life. Artificial life.”
“If you stand in a forest long enough, eventually something will fall on you.”
“I’ll tell you what: If I could do it all over again, I’d spend more time helping others. All I’ve ever done is dig tunnels. Some of them were real beauties too, but they’re all hidden underground, where they’re no good to anyone but me.”
“As the robot looked out at the island, it never even occurred to her that she might not belong there. As far as Roz knew, she was home.”
The Narrator(s)
Kate Atwater for the first book, Kathleen McInerney for the second and third book.
My Thoughts
I love that the movie stayed pretty true to the first book. There are some differences, of course, but I feel like the important points were covered. The stories for the second and third books aren’t told in the movie but I’m hoping there will be more movies, maybe! I personally loved the first book most; the other books had good stories to tell too but I wasn’t as invested and I think I didn’t feel the urgency as much. Still a wonderful series and I enjoyed it very much!
My Rating
⭐⭐⭐/5 stars.
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Once upon a time, Maggie Cooper lived for adventure. Jumping out of planes was child’s play. Now she can’t even work up the nerve to ask out her coworker. For a bit of self-therapy, she begins to text her recently deceased mother’s phone—the only problem is that the number has been reassigned and for weeks she’s been unknowingly texting a stranger her deepest thoughts and feelings. There have also been some not-so-deep texts, like the ones about her appreciation for her coworker’s butt.
When Chase Beckett, the unsuspecting stranger who has more in common with Maggie than he’d like to admit, texts back, Maggie is beyond mortified. But message after message and night after night, Maggie realizes that Chase’s wit, charm, and advice are exactly what the doctor ordered. Is it enough, though, to get her back up in the sky? And what about her heart? Can she risk taking a leap of faith for the man on the other end of her accidental texts?
I was desperately needing a fun romance and this was available on Audible Plus.
The Quotes
“She used to tell me that it was my job to make myself happy. No one else can do that.”
“Life is short, this I do know. You have to find happiness where you can. That’s all we really have in the end.”
“My mom would sometimes tell us, when we were having a hard time with something, to look outside ourselves for answers. I never quite got what she meant until right now. Being there for someone else … well, it sort of feels like a balm on my soul.”
The Narrator(s)
Holly Warren. I enjoyed it very much!
My Thoughts
This was a quick, fun, read. I love the whole meet-cute story, and I love the chemistry between the two MCs. I love reading romance but it’s not always easy finding good ones that aren’t overly cheesy and/or unrealistic. To be clear, realism isn’t a priority for me when it comes to romance, but I still need things to make sense to an extent. I especially need the characters’ behaviors and motivations to make sense to me, so insta-love is often hard for me to swallow. I love that Maggie and Chase connected as friends and took time to get to know each other here. It was just a cute story that hit the spot for me.
My Rating
⭐⭐⭐/5 stars.
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A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Austen’s “Gothic parody.” Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers give the story an uncanny air, but one with a decidedly satirical twist.
The story’s unlikely heroine is Catherine Morland, a remarkably innocent seventeen-year-old woman from a country parsonage. While spending a few weeks in Bath with a family friend, Catherine meets and falls in love with Henry Tilney, who invites her to visit his family estate, Northanger Abbey. Once there, Catherine, a great reader of Gothic thrillers, lets the shadowy atmosphere of the old mansion fill her mind with terrible suspicions. What is the mystery surrounding the death of Henry’s mother? Is the family concealing a terrible secret within the elegant rooms of the Abbey? Can she trust Henry, or is he part of an evil conspiracy? Catherine finds dreadful portents in the most prosaic events, until Henry persuades her to see the peril in confusing life with art.
Executed with high-spirited gusto, Northanger Abbey is a lighthearted, yet unsentimental commentary on love and marriage.
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
“A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
My Thoughts
I’m not a big Jane Austen reader, I’ve only read Pride and Prejudice and now this book, but I’ve enjoyed both and very interested in reading more of her books. I think she writes very interesting characters, and her books have the best quotes! I had such a hard time limiting the quotes because there were so many that resonated with me!
The characters are the best thing about this book for me; I was completely appalled by the behavior of several of the characters here, I can’t believe how rude they were especially for the era, but on the other hand, I love Catherine, the MC of the book. I really admired how she handled herself in the face of other people’s bad behavior towards her, and considering how young she was, the poise with which she handled it. I don’t think I had the same fortitude when I was her age. Heck, I don’t think I have the same fortitude now!
To be honest, I’ve never felt the need to read more of Austen’s works after Pride and Prejudice because that was the most popular one and I thought it was enough, but I really enjoyed reading Northanger Abbey and now I’m compelled to read more of Austen’s other works!
My Rating
⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 stars.
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Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They’re completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less perfect than they appear. Although her Papa is generous and well respected, he is fanatically religious and tyrannical at home—a home that is silent and suffocating.
As the country begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili and Jaja are sent to their aunt, a university professor outside the city, where they discover a life beyond the confines of their father’s authority. Books cram the shelves, curry and nutmeg permeate the air, and their cousins’ laughter rings throughout the house. When they return home, tensions within the family escalate, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together.
Purple Hibiscus is an exquisite novel about the emotional turmoil of adolescence, the powerful bonds of family, and the bright promise of freedom.
I read We Should All Be Feminists by the same author some time ago and had been meaning to read more of her works.
The Quotes
“There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not all crawl, once.”
“We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.”
“The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?”
“I cannot control even the dreams that I have made.”
The Narrator(s)
Lisette Lecat. She’s a wonderful narrator, she had just the right emotional expression.
My Thoughts
I’m not sure how I can begin to gush about this book. It is so emotionally powerful, heartbreaking, and completely pulls you in. I’d only read We Should All Be Feminists by Adichie previously and it was a short nonfiction, but I respected the way she wrote and expressed her ideas so clearly. I had been meaning to read more of her works and only just finally read this one.
The writing is so powerful; it gut punches you from the very beginning and just keeps getting more and more intense. Realizing that this is Adichie’s first book makes it even more incredible. You really get into Kambili’s mind, feel her feelings, care for her. I have a visceral hate for her father, and so much sadness for her circumstances. I am still feeling my feelings over this book and I am very much wanting to read more of her books after this.
My Rating
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 stars.
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Two writers compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve in this dazzling and sweeping new novel from Emily Henry.
Alice Scott is an eternal optimist still dreaming of her big writing break. Hayden Anderson is a Pulitzer-prize winning human thundercloud. And they’re both on balmy Little Crescent Island for the same reason: To write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years–or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives. Tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th Century.
When Margaret invites them both for a one-month trial period, after which she’ll choose the person who’ll tell her story, there are three things keeping Alice’s head in the game.
One: Alice genuinely likes people, which means people usually like Alice—and she has a whole month to win the legendary woman over.
Two: She’s ready for this job and the chance to impress her perennially unimpressed family with a Serious Publication
Three: Hayden Anderson, who should have no reason to be concerned about losing this book, is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition.
But the problem is, Margaret is only giving each of them pieces of her story. Pieces they can’t swap to put together because of an ironclad NDA and an inconvenient yearning pulsing between them every time they’re in the same room.
And it’s becoming abundantly clear that their story—just like the tale Margaret’s spinning—could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad…depending on who’s telling it.
I have been craving some romance in my tbr and I enjoy Emily Henry’s books.
The Quotes
“There’s an old saying about stories, and how there are always three versions of them: yours, mine, and the truth.”
“Love isn’t something you can cup in your hands, and I have to believe that means it’s something that can’t ever be lost.”
“I find myself thinking that maybe every bit of heartbreak in life can be rearranged and used for something beautiful, that it doesn’t really matter whether I chose this path or I was born onto it, so long as I stop and appreciate the path itself.”
“Just because something doesn’t make money or win awards doesn’t mean it doesn’t have value.”
The Narrator(s)
Julia Whelan! I love her!!
My Thoughts
I generally enjoy Emily Henry’s books and she’s one of my go-to authors for books in the romance genre. Having said that, I don’t always enjoy the stories but I do like her writing, and the fact that Julia Whelan narrates this book cinched it for me.
One of the things that has been mentioned about this book is its similarities with The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I love TJR and I can see the similarities with the premise, but as far as vibes go, they are not the same at all. TJR’s book was much more mysterious and had a little bit more gravitas. This book is a little more lighthearted, and Margaret’s story for me was more of a plot device. It was an interesting story, but it’s not what I’m here for. As I said, I was craving romance, and I wanted romance!
Enter Alice and Hayden. I am completely charmed by Alice and her bright personality. I love that it’s addressed from the beginning and I like how she wins people over; she’s friendly and thoughtful, and says what she thinks, and I love that about her. As for the romance part, I love the way she wins Hayden over just by being her friendly, annoying, charming self. I love the non-sexual, intimate moments between them, the way they interacted with each other, but honestly, it’s mostly due to Alice’s personality. I find it hard not to fall for her myself! I would totally want to be BFFs with her if she was a real person!
My Rating
⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 stars.
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When you’ve been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?
As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes.
Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves.
When Haymitch’s name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He’s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who’s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he’s been set up to fail. But there’s something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.
I’m a huge fan of The Hunger Games, so obviously I had to read this!
The Quotes
“They will not use my tears for their entertainment.”
“You were capable of imagining a different future. And maybe it won’t be realized today, maybe not in our lifetime. Maybe it will take generations. We’re all part of a continuum. Does that make it pointless?”
“Fire is catching, she’d say, but if this one burns down the arena, I say good riddance.”
“In fifty years, we’ve only had one victor, and that was a long time ago. A girl who no one seems to know anything about.”
The Narrator(s)
Jefferson White. It was absolutely wonderful and I was fully immersed.
My Thoughts
I’m a huge fan of the original trilogy for The Hunger Games, but I was initially resistent when The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes came out because I wasn’t interested in President Snow’s childhood. I did end up reading it and enjoying it very much, and also really admiring Collins’ vision of how things started. So when this book came out, I was excited because I am much more interested in Haymitch’s story, and I also have a lot more confidence that Collins will do a great job with it.
Reading Haymitch’s story, I like getting to know him better. I like learning what really happened with him. I don’t think this story could work on its own but somehow I love THG enough that I want to know more, not just about him, but about other characters too. I’d love a book about Finnick as well, and Johanna, and Beetee, and Mags, and several other characters. I know a lot of people think additional books in THG universe aren’t necessary, and I agree somewhat that I don’t think any of these stories work on their own but I still want to know them!
Perhaps a happy compromise for me is an actual manifestation of that memorial book that Katniss and Peeta were working on, a sort of dictionary/encyclopedia type book with pictures and information about the Victors throughout the years, the people who loved them and whom they loved, anecdotes about them. I would love that!! In any case, at this point I’m not tired of THG world yet and I’ll probably read more if Collins wrote them!
My Rating
⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 stars.
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One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser.
In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser’s strange world—unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them.
For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years—in museums and cathedrals all over Europe—Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion.
In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwieser’s strange and fascinating world. Unlike most thieves, Breitwieser never stole for money. Instead, he displayed all his treasures in a pair of secret rooms where he could admire them to his heart’s content. Possessed of a remarkable athleticism and an innate ability to circumvent practically any security system, Breitwieser managed to pull off a breathtaking number of audacious thefts. Yet these strange talents bred a growing disregard for risk and an addict’s need to score, leading Breitwieser to ignore his girlfriend’s pleas to stop—until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down.
This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.
“It isn’t action, he suspects, that usually lands a thief in prison. It’s hesitation.”
“Art is the result of facing almost no survival pressure at all. It’s the product of leisure time. Our big brains, the most complex instruments known in the universe, have been released from the vigilance of evading predators and seeking sustenance, permitting our imagination to gambol and explore, to dream while awake, to share visions of God. Art signals our freedom. It exists because we’ve won the evolutionary war.”
“In the eyes of the law, how a thief steals is more significant than what’s taken: robbing a candy bar with a gun is worse than carrying off a Cranach painting unarmed.”
“Knowing when not to take an item, however deflating, is mandatory for a thief expecting career longevity.”
My Thoughts
I’m not an art afficionado, but I do appreciate art very much and hold them very much sacred. Not just the famous works, but also the ones regular unskilled people like me do at home, and while regular people art isn’t very valuable, I still feel the pain when I hear of any art getting lost, stolen, or destroyed, because it’s not about the monetary value, but the emotional value of the art.
I have no inkling of the monetary value of most famous artworks but I’m sure their emotional value is priceless because of what they mean to so many people. Reading this book really helps me to appreciate the kind of passion that people can feel about art.
Breitwieser’s story was interesting to read about. He was such an intriguing person to read about; his upbringing, his obsession with artworks, his thought processes, his approach system to acquiring art… Seeing his relationship dynamics with his girlfriend and his mother was really interesting too. My emotions through the progression of this book was all over the place because the story was told so well!
The ending left me so angry at Breitwieser and so sad about the art, but I cannot deny that this was a great book, told so well by the author, and well worth reading.
My Rating
⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 stars.
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