Summer Reading: The Museum of Extraordinary Things

Summer Reading: The Museum of Extraordinary Things. Read the review at penderandpeony.com

The Museum of Extraordinary Things is a slow burn. You know almost from the beginning that the two main characters, Coralie and Eddie, are going to meet and fall in love. Hoffman follows their life paths through flashbacks and diary like entries as these characters mature and slowly, ever so slowly, draw closer and closer…

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Summer Reading Review: Charleston

Summer Reading Review of Charleston

This book hurt my heart but in this poignant rush that was utterly captivating. **This post contains affiliate links, but only because I highly recommend this book! Charleston by Margaret Bradham Thornton tells the story of Eliza Poinsett who journeys home to a city so filled with tentacles of memory and connection she can’t shake…

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My Summer Reading List

I don’t know about you, but I’ve got a mile long list of books that I want to read, and I am constantly adding to it. So in order to shorten that list just a bit, I’ve decided to focus on 10 books that I will read by the end of the summer. Some of…

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Read It: The Art Experience

Art Museums are grappling with a “plugged in” public obsessed with technology and having an “experience.” How do museums satisfy this public without falling into the entertainment trap? Is social practice art a key solution to avoiding this trap? “High Culture Goes Hands-On” by Judith H. Deobrzynski in The New York Times “Song of Experience”…

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