Fiction Book Club
The Painter
by Will Davenport
Buy book: $11.66

In 1662 Rembrandt visited England, but the reason for his trip has baffled historians until now. Spinning a hypothesis from this fact, "The Painter" presents a portrait of the artist as an irascible stowaway who finds himself involved in a game of wits with a temptress housewife and an aspiring poet.

She's awful chatty to a complete stranger. Their conversation seems like one of old friends not new acquaintances.

I find the style of this conversation extremely annoying.
The chosen short excerpts are not creating any interest. The characters have not convinced me I should care about them. So far, the story does nothing for me.

I agee that it would have been better had these 2 characters been introduced to us as already knowing each other, because there is definite familiarity.

However, I do find the repartee rather witty and I'm intrigued to find out about this manor. Looking forward to the next portion.

I am trying to give this a chance. The first Excerpt was back in time and the next chapter seemed to be somewhat 20th century. I agree with the conversation Amy being somewhat chatty with a "stranger".

Hopefully the next piece sheds some light.

Wow - I totally lost interest when we jumped back in time. I didn't even finish today's read. That's okay - one less book on the list is no harm done!

I like the book because I work in a museum and itkind of explains something Im always thinking while looking at paintings. I look at a painting of people in a normal farm setting and think "somebody took time to look at those people and paint a picture of what he sees and now hundreds of years later other people are looking at what the artist saw back then." It just shifts from one history to another and shows art has a human side.

I tried with this one, but just couldn't muster up the strength to get past the first installment. The writing style just lacked something for me right now. It's possible, though, that in a month this book would hold my interest, but, unfortunately, that didn't happen this time.

I'm glad others enjoyed it, though! :)

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"What wild desires, what restless torments seize
The hapless man, who feels the book-disease..."
- Dr. John Ferriar (from the poem Bibliomania, 1863)