a little place to call my own (art and fashion blog)

How are you doing? How was your weekend?  I have spent all of my weekend working on a new painting. I started it about a week ago, but this weekend I really put it the hours. Yesterday, I worked on it from 9 am to am and today I worked on from 9 am to 9 pm (with a lunch break).  I didn't go anywhere this weekend or did anything else. Who needs a life when you have art?  Well, sometimes I do something else than make art, for example read books. It's been a while since my last reading update (almost a full month) so today I'll do three book reviews in one post. All of these authors were completely new to me. I haven't read any of them before. When you take on a new author, it can be a bit of a gamble. Most of the time I have great luck with picking books, but this time my visit to the library was a miss. Two of these books were rather disappointing. However, the one that I actually purchased (as opposed to borrowed from library) was wonderful. Scroll down to read my revie