Showing posts with label The Art Whisperer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Art Whisperer. Show all posts

Aug 15, 2014

The Art Whisperer by Charlotte and Aaron Elkins

 *Grab a book, any book. *Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader  *Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it) that grabs you. *Post it. *Add your (url) post in Linky at Freda's Voice Also Book Beginnings by Rose City Reader.

The Art Whisperer
What would you do if your book got these kinds of one-star ratings?

Book beginning:
The Conservation of Art: Methods and Aims, A Brief Guide
By Alix London...
 Reader's Forum Reviews. Newest First 
Worse Than Useless
Don't Waste Your Money
Clueless
Shameful and Pathetic
Look Elsewhere
That was as much as Alix could take in one sitting, and not for the first time her fingers itched - literally truly itched - to send in a response of her own, a fiery rejoinder that would blow these captious faultfinders out of the water, but deep down she knew it wasn't worth the bitterness of getting into a fight with them. 

page 56:
"But I thought as lead detective on this character's cases you'd want to know and maybe -"
"Maybe get my ass over there too?"
Book description:
When art conservator Alix London spots a forgery, she knows trouble will follow. So she's understandably apprehensive when her connoisseur's eye spots something off about a multimillion-dollar Jackson Pollock painting at Palm Springs's Brethwaite Museum, her current employer. In her third mystery, Alix London must see through mirages in the desert to uncover the knotted history of the painting, and save herself in the process.

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