Want to join us for a readalong of “Girl Reading” by Katie Ward?
Some weeks ago Caroline from “Beauty is a sleeping cat” blogged about Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier, a writer whose “Girl with a Pearl Earring” I enjoyed. In the comments talk went from Chevalier to Susan Vreeland, and then Caroline mentioned a book called “Girl Reading” by Katie Ward that Danielle from A work in Progress had blogged about. All three books deal in their own way with art and women and Caroline and I decided to read Girl Reading together in June.
This is the synopsis of Girl Reading:
Seven portraits. Seven artists. Seven girls and women reading. A young orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena, and an artist’s servant girl in 17th-century Amsterdam snatches a moment away from her work to lose herself in tales of knights and battles. A young woman reading in a Shoreditch bar catches the eye of a young man who takes her picture, and a Victorian medium holds a book that she barely acknowledges while she waits for the exposure. Each chapter of this richly textured debut takes us into a perfectly imagined tale of how each portrait came to be, and as the connections accumulate, the narrative leads us into the present and beyond – an inspired celebration of women reading and the artists who have caught them in the act.
We are planning to start in the last week of June, that would be Monday the 25th.
Is anyone else interested in reading along with us? Let me or Caroline know, so we can keep track of each other’s progress and discuss the book together.
Who will read along?
I’m really loking forward to reading it.
So am I, now I just have to get the book,
I hadn’t heard of the book, but it looks like a great read. My library catalog compares it to Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, so I’m in!
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Great, Judith! We are going to have a good time!
I’ve got the book from the library. What is the plan? Do we read something that we discuss on the 25th or do we start reading on the 25th? And in what pace? (planning my final reading for this month)
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Caroline will post and discuss on the 25th, but I am not sure I will have finished by then. But basically we read beforehand and talk about it on or after the 25th. I don’t think it makes sense to discuss every story separately, that would probably be too much for such a relatively short book. But in the end it is up to each of us…:) So if you want to discuss it in more depth, we will be happy to join.
No, that sounds fine. I just wasn’t sure what you guys had in mind. I’ll read it after my current book.
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