pickIt is with mixed feelings that I rate this book. There were times I hated it and times that I loved it.
The last 15% of the booked saved it for me.
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A Piece of the World | 
pickIt is with mixed feelings that I rate this book. There were times I hated it and times that I loved it.
The last 15% of the booked saved it for me.
Day One (12.14.19): Hardcover copy of A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline (author of Orphan Train). #BookmasAdventCalendar #12DaysOfBookClubMas
(Revealing a day late to avoid spoilers for any fellow subscribers.)
I subscribed to my first Bookmas Advent calendar this year and it only arrived today, so I got to open the first two gifts. So excited! 🎉👏🏼📖
pickI really love this book. Recommend for anyone who‘s ever felt invisible. This is the fictionalized story behind Andrew Wyeth‘s painting Christina‘s World.
#elfies #WinterGames
Once Upon A Book Club Advent Edition
Day #1
Today was the first day of 12!
The first gift was a book! Im excited to read this one!
For those who arent familiar with Once Upon A Book Club, normally its a book with wrapped gifts that you open at specific pages of the book. For Christmas there are 12 unique stories and gifts for the 12 days of Christmas. This was the story and gift for day 1. Ill be posting each day until Christmaz!
Partway through book #100 for the year. (Though I may finish my audiobook first... we shall see.) This has been in my TBR for so long. My eagerness to read it has not waned like it has for some of my other poor TBR reads.
pickThis is a beautifully written story of Christina Olson‘s difficult life. She‘s featured in a famous painting named after her. The author did a tremendous amount of research in to the lives of the main character as well as her family, acquaintances, Maine property, and even the life of the artist himself, Andrew Wyeth. She left no stone unturned. While much of the book is fiction, it's framework is based on real people and the Olson homestead.
so-soChristina Baker Kline opens the doors and invites us into the farmhouse in Andrew Wyeth‘s iconic painting, Christina‘s World. This fictional work offers readers a chance to understand the world of the rural Maine residents he painted. It‘s not about Wyeth very much, although Kline does imagine the relationship he had with Christina Olson and her family. It‘s a bit depressing, though.
Full review http://www.TheBibliophage.com
#thebibliophage2019
That moment when you can‘t start the car until you read a few more pages.
Starting this one today. My dad was a huge Wyeth fan, and we have his collection of prints and books now. Meant to read it a long time ago!
“Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen again.”
so-soThe writing is so easy to read. I found the story to be a little long and not overly interesting. I skimmed a lot. The last few chapters were good. #readwomen #bookclub #librarybook
#StudentBuddyRead #AndrewWyeth #Christina
“...And the skeleton of a house can carry in its bones the marrow of all that came before.” Just love this sentence. Reading this with a student. ❤️📚
#AndrewWyeth #ChristinasWorld #studentbuddyread
So excited! One of my students with whom I have done one #buddyread with this year, has suggested we read this book together. We usually follow with a book talk. We have been reading together since her freshman year. she graduates this June. 😭
Thank you so much @mreads !! I was so excited to open up the envelope and find my book wrapped in this AMAZING pineapple paper - how fun!! 🍍🍍🍍 I remember seeing you post about this paper and thinking how much I loved it 😍 I am excited about this book and look forward to reading it. I love books like this! Thank you @TheBookKeepers for hosting a fun #justabookswap
“All were given one chance to step into a happily ever after- or at least it must have seemed that way. But was it the prince who attracted them, or merely the opportunity to escape?”
pickThis book was so good. I love historical fiction about art. Especially art I have seen in person. 💖📚🎨
#ICanSeeTheSunInLateDecember seems almost reflective. Identifying the bad, but seeing the good through it. Christina Olson is resilient and one who guards her life‘s events. It‘s not until Andrew Wyeth meets her that her full story is told - Kline writes a beautiful story about Olson‘s life, but Wyeth captures so much in his paintings of her. Amazing historical fiction. #WinterWonderland
pickI've always loved the Andrew Wyeth painting this book uses as a starting point, and I'm a sucker for an imagined history of a minor historical figure, but I nearly quit listening because it starts sloowwww. I'm so glad I stuck with it, though. It gave me so much to think about - that a quiet life can still be a good life, and the ways we use our tragedies to isolate ourselves because it's the easier path. I identified too much with that.
As promised, a picture of Christina Baker Kline talking about A Piece of the World and the reasons behind it. Love it!
I love historical fiction, especially books that capture the facts so well. I‘m highlighting this one today, as tonight I‘m honored to be part of my library‘s biggest fundraiser of the year, where the author is the guest speaker. And, unless something changes, I‘m sitting at the author table at dinner! #FactFiction
This book is also my library‘s One Book selection, so I‘ll be immersed in this world all October! #SeptemberDanes
I really enjoyed this book. It‘s a fictionalized version of Andrew Wyeth‘s most famous work. Great character development throughout. Would highly recommend for those of you who liked her Orphan Train. #abookaweek. #3
pickI have just finished this little gem. It‘s the story behind the famous painting ‘Christina‘s World‘ by Andrew Wyeth. It made me think of a beautiful old house in Hastings, NZ. I love the idea of the stories behind this house so much that I commissioned a painting of it. The photo here is of my painting not the one in the book. One day someone might write the story behind this one. Might even be me 😊 🏠 📖
This is a comfort. My memories do, at times, sustain me through the harsh reality.
pickA quiet story that slowly pulls you in without you're notice
This quote really resonates for me with my daughter leaving for basic training in 5 days
I've never read My Antonia. I think my life is just fine without it 😄
#NovelsInBooks
Let the storms roll through; I've got a new book to read! 😁
#CurrentRead
pickI genuinely can't rave about this enough. Everything is so sparse and simple but all the more beautiful and powerful for it. Made my heart squeeze. An imagining of the life of Christina Olsen, of Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World.
A little bragging session time...this marks the first year that I am chair of my library system‘s One Book Committee. Today was my big announcement of the One Book title, with programs to take place this fall. The Committee selected this book, and I couldn‘t be happier. We‘ve known since January, so to be able to tell everyone is a wonderful feeling. Now, to finalize the program list for October!
Picture cropped from the library website.
pickThe story of Christina Olson from Wyeth‘s painting “Christina‘s World. An incredibly rich novel, full of well researched history. I wasn‘t wild about Orphan Train, but this is well worth the read. I book that deserves to be handsold. Highly recommended.
“He thought I wouldn‘t like the way he portrayed me: dragging myself across the field ... my legs twisting behind. The arid moonscape of wheatgrass, and timothy. That dilapidated house in the distance, looming up like a secret that won‘t stay hidden .” (Prologue)
A little coffee shop reading this afternoon. This is the first book I have read by Christina Baker Kline, and I have had a difficult time putting this book down.
pickSolid book. Follow the link for full review. https://lifebooksandcc.blogspot.com/2018/05/book-review-piece-of-world.html?m=1
pickAndrew Wyeth's painting Christina's World captivated me years ago the first time I saw it, and it has been a favorite ever since. I enjoyed reading Kline's story and appreciated the tone tells it in and the atmosphere she creates in the telling of it.
"Do our natures dictate the choices we make, I wonder, or do we choose to live a certain way because of circumstances beyond our control? Perhaps these questions are impossible to tease apart because, like a tangle of seaweed on a rock, they are connected at the root."
so-soI preferred the orphan train but this was a decent read. A bit slow at times. The imagery is beautiful and Kline does do a wonderful job at getting into peoples thoughts.
Happy Friday! Don't miss today's #womenshistoryreads interview with Christina Baker Kline -- I'm sure you'll want to know (as I did) what she's writing about next! Greermacallister.com/blog
Instantly engaging. I love her rhythm and tone. And I nyway be a little biased on books about home. #maine
pickMy grandparents had a reproduction of Andrew Wyeth‘s painting, Christina‘s World, framed above their living room couch. Because of this, it‘s always held a special place in my heart. So when I heard about this book, which is a story about how this painting came to be, I knew I had to read it. This book is as much of the truth as we know with some educated guesses sprinkled in.
#kindlesoflitsy
A book quote within a book.
"Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."
Sad but true. Oh, to live life again in absolute ignorance of the trials and heartaches that await us...
