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A Bookstore in Oakland, Illustrated

This is my local bookstore, Spectator Books in Oakland. They are always nice to my dog and give her treats when we go in. The first bookstore I ever loved was my local Barnes and Noble when I was growing up. I know it is very uncool love a corporate bookstore, but I loved going …

Weekend Watercolor: Where the Crawdads Sing

I recently got a nicer set of watercolors. Nothing particularly fancy, but at least something from a proper art store. I haven’t done much painting in the past, but I’m happy with how this attempt turned out. The boat looks nice at least. The plants need some work; I don’t really know how to paint …

The Goldfinch

Plot Summary The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, is a Bildungsroman (coming-of-age story) of a boy who survives a terrorist bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The bombing results in his mother’s death and, in the haze of the aftermath, him making off with …

My Name Is Red

Huh. I liked this book in theory. My Name is Red reads like a philosophical mystery, except it’s only about art philosophy. It’s a story about a murder among a group of miniaturists (which are basically artists), and it is set in the Ottoman Empire. The book itself was originally written in Turkish. The idea …