Publication date: 2010 Pages: 362 Word count: 104491 Ages: YA “Be good, Gaia,” Capt. Grey told her, his voice grave. She still refused to look at him, but she could feel the heated flush of anger again in her cheeks. “Cooperate with the guards. For your own sake,” he continued. “Be good yourself, Captain,” she said […]
This is just a quick post about something that’s been on my mind for a while. It’s sad that there are so many preconceived ideas about YA novels, ideas that show those who speak about them, very often haven’t read any. I’m writing for adults, children and Young Adults and in one of my writer’s […]
Publication date: 2015 Pages: 350 Word count: ? Ages: YA They are all innocent until proven guilty. But not me. I am a liar until I am proven honest. What a book! I finished it a while ago but I’m still stunned. Sometimes you read a book and the topic shocks you. Then you read a book […]
Publication date: 2014 Pages: 198 Word count: ? Ages: YA Last year I read my first Dana Reinhardt novel (The Summer I Learned to Fly) and liked it a great deal. The story was cute, the characters lovable but what I liked the most was the tone and the voice. I knew I would read another […]
Publication date: 1993 Pages: 180 Word count: 43,617 Ages: MG 4 – 8 I wanted to read Lois Lowry’s The Giver for ages. Not only because it was a Newbery Medal winner but because it has become one of the great MG classics and has even been made into a movie. The Giver was written at a […]
Beauty is a Sleeping Cat 
Caspar David Friedrich is one of my favourite painters too.
(And Modigliani)
I never saw this comment of yours… It does strike me that you do not like romanticism in literature but you do in art. Interesting.
I still like Caspar David Friedrich. I saw a nice Modigliani retrospective in rome three years ago and bought his biography but… Always the same story. Not enough time.
Let’s say I’m a suffer-in-silence type.
Os, ahs and whining and spilling of guts bore me. That’s why I have difficulties with romanticism in literature.
I think I also tend to rather suffer in silence still I enjoy a lot of Romantic writing. What about ghost stories? I think there is such a ghostly feel in Caspar David Friedrich’s paintings. I love Gothic things. Susan Hill’s ghost stories could be illustrated by one of his paintings. Very old-fashioned and well written. Like M.R. James.
I just noticed this post listed on your sidebar under Top Posts and had to click over. I discovered him recently through the Josipovici book that was The Wolves’ May reading selection. I definitely need to track down more of his paintings. I like the one you shared here – so evocative.
I did a museums tour a few years back, chasing his paintings. I saw many of them in real. He is an astonishing painter. I really like him.