The Last Starry Night by Jamison Odone
The Last Starry Night by Jamison Odone is the kind of graphic novel that if you want a biography, this is not it. Yet, if you want a poetic love letter of admiration to the man, Vincet van Gogh, then this is it. There are facts intermixed with a story about a man doing the thing called life, but they make the main part of things the few months before the end of his life. What we are given is almost a day to day […]
Light, Letters, and Love: How Jo van Gogh Saved Vincent's Paintings for the World by Donna Cangelosi and Elisa Paganelli
I appreciate art, even if I do not partially understand or like it. And honestly, Vincent van Gogh is one of those artists that I can appreciate, but I’m just not a fan. I never “got him” or why he is considered great. The Sunflowers? Yeah that’s a nope for me. But thankfully for those of you who are fans, his sister-in-law, Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, was a fan who not only understood his work, she kept them even after his death. Even after others told […]
The Sunflowers: Vincent van Gogh's Search for Beauty by Zahra Marwan
As many of you know, I am in the bookselling business. Currently I am behind the scenes, but I occasionally still “hand sell” a book (usually via an email or over the phone, not on the sales floor). And because I am in retail, it might seem odd I would go to the library as I practically have access to any book I want. But sometimes you just have to. I want to see if I would like a book before I buy it, or […]
