Lark Writes...on books and life

  "...his voice is both exultant and sad. Both happy and unhappy. Because it's that sort of story, with that sort of ending." ...

Author:  Aaron Elkins Title:  A Long Time Coming First line:  "My name is Val Caruso and I'm a curator at the Metropol...

If Monet Painted a Monster by  Amy and Greg Newbold is a whimsical picture book that imagines how 16 famous artists, from Frida Kahlo...

"He felt hot with the pressure to get started, and to make it the greatest figure painting of the whole Impressionist movement. ... Fi...

Check out my new favorite picture book: It's AWESOME! My brother-in-law did the fabulous artwork and my sister wrote the fu...

Esther's hand raced over the paper as if the colored pencils might be snatched from her, the quivering inside her wild, foreign, thrill...

Lovis Corinth -- Girl Reading, 1888 I love books. I love that moment when you open one and sink into it; you can escape from the worl...

Jean-Jacques Henner -- Woman Reading "Lost in a book is a great place to be found." -- Shannon Taylor Hodnett

The Daring Ladies of Lowell  by Kate Alcott " Alice pulled back the covers, easing herself into bed... The most important day of he...

"Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!" --Neal A. Maxwell. Merry Christmas!!!

"You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line..." --Vincent Van Gogh F...

     Today is Berthe Morisot's birthday.  She was born on January 14, 1841.  One of the few women who consistently exhibited with the Im...