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• Art as Therapy

  De Botton, Alain,

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  De Botton argues that certain great works of art offer clues on managing the tensions and confusions of everyday life. Art as Therapy is packed with 150 examples of outstanding art, with chapters on Love, Nature, Money, and Politics outlining how…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Henna Artist

  Joshi, Alka

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  Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist—and confidante—to the wealthy women of the upper class.

• Draw Your Weapons

  Sentilles, Sarah

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  Draw Your Weapons, Sentilles tells the true stories of Howard, a conscientious objector during World War II, and Miles, a former prison guard at Abu Ghraib, and in the process she challenges conventional thinking about how war is waged, witnessed,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Swan Thieves

  a Novel

  Kostova, Elizabeth

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  Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Artist's Way

  a Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

  Cameron, Julia

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  The Artist’s Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity.

• Spending

  a Utopian Divertimento

  Gordon, Mary, 1949-

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  Middle-aged female painter is offered financial freedom from an admirer who serves as her muse. Loved it so much that I have read it twice and know I’ll read it again. Themes of creative freedom, sex, control, and power.

• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  Joyce, James, 1882-1941

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  The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Kill Artist

  a Novel

  Silva, Daniel, 1960-

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  Gabriel Allon had a simple but brutal job: he tracked down and eliminated Israel's terrorist enemies. But when his wife and son fell victim to the danger that accompanied him everywhere, Gabriel quit and devoted himself to the work of art…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Art & Craft of the Short Story

  DeMarinis, Rick, 1934-2019

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  The Art & Craft of the Short Story explores every key element of short fiction, including story structure and form; creative and believable characters; how to begin and where to end; and the generation of ideas; as well as technical aspects such as…Read moreRead more of this annotation