Posts tagged with review

Everyday Adventures #26

  • Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:55 pm

This was a good adventure! I saw the exhibit of paintings by Fiona Rae at Leeds Art Gallery http://www.leeds.gov.uk/museumsandgalleries/Pages/leedsartgallery/Fiona-Rae.aspx. It was very good! Her work is very energetic and vibrant, and much of it has little pandas and bunnies and what not on it. I liked it all! I even found some inspiration for some Stephie Art.

It is only showing until the 26th August, so I recommend you all hurry along to see it before it’s gone! I give this exhibit 9/10, I really enjoyed her work.

Arty Kisses, Stephanie xxx

Continue reading Everyday Adventures #26

Book Review – Falling to Heaven, Jeanne Peterson

  • Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:43 pm

Set in Tibet in the mid fifties, an American couple travelling in Tibet get caught up in the Maoist invasion, bad things happen.

I enjoyed this book. It’s not great literature (What was with all the lip pursing in the first half of the book? And why did it suddenly stop?), and it got a bit gody in parts, but it was interesting and I learnt stuff I didn’t know about Tibetan culture and traditions.

The Tibetan family who befriended the American couple were sympathetic characters, though I didn’t feel the same about the protagonists themselves – ‘Emma’ was too angry, and ‘Gerald’ too pious. I think this was a shortfall of the writing style; the characters didn’t have enough depth, I was always aware I was reading a book with fictional characters.

Not exactly unputdownable, but interesting enough for me to want to finish it.

6/10

Stephanie x

Continue reading Book Review – Falling to Heaven, Jeanne Peterson