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JacquiWine
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Book lover, film lover, art lover, wine lover. I write about books at JacquiWine's Journal. https://linktr.ee/jacquiwine
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 1d
New on the blog today, I've written about THE LAND IN WINTER by Andrew Miller.

I adored this moving, elegantly crated novel that goes deep into character, highlighting the fault lines in two beautifully observed marriages during winter 1962. #BookSky 💙📚

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The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller
Over the past 30 years, Andrew Miller has been carving out a reputation for himself as one of Britain’s finest writers of literary fiction. Twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the …
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 54m
Penelope Fitzgerald! And Memento Mori is one of my favourites by Spark. 💛
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 1h
Very much so. It’s a slow burner, but I found it very compelling, partly for that stillness.
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 9h
Lovely! That’s right, definitely a slow burner, but I found it *so* absorbing. I really hope you enjoy it - let me know how you get on! :)
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 22h
“He sometimes thought she was the kind of person who might choose to bring the house down simply to find out what kind of noise it made.” #BookSky 💙📚 #BookerPrize

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The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller
Over the past 30 years, Andrew Miller has been carving out a reputation for himself as one of Britain’s finest writers of literary fiction. Twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the …
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 12h
Augusto Giacometti was a member of the Giacometti dynasty of artists and was among the very first painters of the 20thC to venture into non-representational painting. He moved back to figurative painting later in his career. 'Books and Cup,' is from 1940.
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Chris @staggerlee42.bsky.social · 14h
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A very fine book indeed. #BookSky💙📚
Review by chris_leathley - The Luminaries
This book is a huuuuge enterprise of fiction - so delicately layered and over-layered, so many...
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 13h
It’s so cool. Fingers crossed you’ll be able to catch it! 🤞
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 13h
There’s so much going on in it. I definitely want to see it again…
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 13h
Cool. I went yesterday and can definitely recommend!

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 1d
PSA for Jean Rhys fans!

If you’re in London, get yourself along to the POSTURES: JEAN RHYS IN THE MODERN WORLD exhibition at the Michael Werner Gallery in Mayfair, which includes various artworks in conversation with Rhys’ books.

I especially loved these pieces by Celia Paul & Gwen John. 💙📚
Charlotte by Celia Paul, 2019 Girl in a Red Shawl by Gwen John
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 13h
No! But I do recall you posting about it recently. Definitely one to investigate - thanks for the tip!
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 14h
We are spoilt for choice in London right now!
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 1d
New on the blog today, I've written about THE LAND IN WINTER by Andrew Miller.

I adored this moving, elegantly crated novel that goes deep into character, highlighting the fault lines in two beautifully observed marriages during winter 1962. #BookSky 💙📚

jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/t...
The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller
Over the past 30 years, Andrew Miller has been carving out a reputation for himself as one of Britain’s finest writers of literary fiction. Twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the …
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Jaghoul 🎃 @jagodesu.bsky.social · 16h
Impressionism 🐈
Tiger cat mid jump
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 14h
That’s a great pic!
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 14h
Yes! I haven’t read it yet, but it’s been on my wishlist for a while. :-)
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 14h
Third one is used on the cover of Helen DeWitt's brilliant novella The English Understand Wool.
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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 14h
Cannot wait to see this amount of cake
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 14h
An abundance of diner and delicatessen deliciousness in the WAYNE THIEBAUD: AMERICAN STILL LIFE exhibition at the Courtauld.

Loved this - I’ll definitely be going back for second helpings! #ArtSky #WayneThiebaud
17 CAKES 1963 Oil on canvas In this celebrated painting, Wayne Thiebaud gives an epic account of one of his favourite motifs, a display of bright and brash cakes familiar from bakeries and diners across America. Working on an unusually large scale for a still-life painting, he accords both the genre itself and his commonplace subject matter monumental status. Thiebaud uses his paint thickly and lushly to accentuate what he considered the distinctly American character of the patterned, vividly coloured and excessively frosted offerings. Cakes was a standout work in exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles in 1963 and helped confirm Thiebaud's emerging reputation as a distinctive painter of modern American life. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art from the Collectors Committee, the 50th Anniversary Gift Committee, and The Circle, with additional support from the Abrams Family in memory of Harry N. Abrams 10 THREE CONES 1964 Oil on canvasboard This small painting offers a fragment of individual pleasure: ice cream cones on a stand, just scooped and ready to enjoy. This frozen moment of anticipation conjures a wider world of modern American leisure and sense of plenty during this period. However, the subject is inherently short-lived; ice creams are quick to melt or be eaten. As Wayne Thiebaud described, 'The ice cream cone, for me, represents a kind of joy, a sort of temporariness... That very bright spirit that it once had, that kind of colour, light, liveliness, soon will be gone.' In this, Thiebaud continued a long tradition of still-life painting as an exploration of the fleeting nature of life. Acquavella 12 BOSTON CREMES 1962 Oil on canvas Wayne Thiebaud's interest in objects of everyday consumerism meant that he was often categorised as a Pop artist and was included in several seminal Pop Art exhibitions throughout the 1960s. However, his lushly painted works are at odds with the cool detachment and slick surfaces more typical of that movement. This painting shows Thiebaud working at the extreme of his distinctive approach, with its whipped, buttery brushstrokes conjuring the substance of the creamy cakes themselves. As he put it, 'white, gooey, shiny, sticky oil paint spread out on the top of a painted cake becomes frosting. It is playing with reality'. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento 15 CANDY COUNTER 1969 Oil on canvas When he produced this work at the end of his breakthrough decade, Wayne Thiebaud had established a significant reputation as a painter of modern American still life. Critics had interpreted his work in different ways: as expressing the beauty of the everyday, as an exploration of nostalgic Americana, or even a critique of the excesses of consumerism. This imagined candy counter plays to all these interpretations, with its brighter colours making everything even more vivid than in earlier works. Thiebaud thought of his still lifes as scenes of modern life or staged performances: 'The objects are... like small landscapes, buildings or characters in a play with costumes'. By this time, Thiebaud's work extended beyond still life and, during his long career, he was also famed for his figure paintings and cityscapes. Private collection
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 14h
You’ll be more than ready for a slice or two after seeing this!
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 14h
An abundance of diner and delicatessen deliciousness in the WAYNE THIEBAUD: AMERICAN STILL LIFE exhibition at the Courtauld.

Loved this - I’ll definitely be going back for second helpings! #ArtSky #WayneThiebaud
17 CAKES 1963 Oil on canvas In this celebrated painting, Wayne Thiebaud gives an epic account of one of his favourite motifs, a display of bright and brash cakes familiar from bakeries and diners across America. Working on an unusually large scale for a still-life painting, he accords both the genre itself and his commonplace subject matter monumental status. Thiebaud uses his paint thickly and lushly to accentuate what he considered the distinctly American character of the patterned, vividly coloured and excessively frosted offerings. Cakes was a standout work in exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles in 1963 and helped confirm Thiebaud's emerging reputation as a distinctive painter of modern American life. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art from the Collectors Committee, the 50th Anniversary Gift Committee, and The Circle, with additional support from the Abrams Family in memory of Harry N. Abrams 10 THREE CONES 1964 Oil on canvasboard This small painting offers a fragment of individual pleasure: ice cream cones on a stand, just scooped and ready to enjoy. This frozen moment of anticipation conjures a wider world of modern American leisure and sense of plenty during this period. However, the subject is inherently short-lived; ice creams are quick to melt or be eaten. As Wayne Thiebaud described, 'The ice cream cone, for me, represents a kind of joy, a sort of temporariness... That very bright spirit that it once had, that kind of colour, light, liveliness, soon will be gone.' In this, Thiebaud continued a long tradition of still-life painting as an exploration of the fleeting nature of life. Acquavella 12 BOSTON CREMES 1962 Oil on canvas Wayne Thiebaud's interest in objects of everyday consumerism meant that he was often categorised as a Pop artist and was included in several seminal Pop Art exhibitions throughout the 1960s. However, his lushly painted works are at odds with the cool detachment and slick surfaces more typical of that movement. This painting shows Thiebaud working at the extreme of his distinctive approach, with its whipped, buttery brushstrokes conjuring the substance of the creamy cakes themselves. As he put it, 'white, gooey, shiny, sticky oil paint spread out on the top of a painted cake becomes frosting. It is playing with reality'. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento 15 CANDY COUNTER 1969 Oil on canvas When he produced this work at the end of his breakthrough decade, Wayne Thiebaud had established a significant reputation as a painter of modern American still life. Critics had interpreted his work in different ways: as expressing the beauty of the everyday, as an exploration of nostalgic Americana, or even a critique of the excesses of consumerism. This imagined candy counter plays to all these interpretations, with its brighter colours making everything even more vivid than in earlier works. Thiebaud thought of his still lifes as scenes of modern life or staged performances: 'The objects are... like small landscapes, buildings or characters in a play with costumes'. By this time, Thiebaud's work extended beyond still life and, during his long career, he was also famed for his figure paintings and cityscapes. Private collection
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 14h
Really impressed with Mascha Schilinski’s SOUND OF FALLING at the #LFF. A mysterious, multilayered story of sacrifice and intergenerational trauma with powerful echoes between four different timeframes. The soundscape is particularly striking in this, adding greatly to the film’s disturbing mood.
Film poster for Sound of Falling / In Die Sonne Schauen, showing a young blond-haired girl dressed in black (early 20th C).
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Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · 17h
Tomorrow afternoon. Make Your Own Wong Kar-wai Double Feature with CHUNGKING EXPRESS and FALLEN ANGELS - two neon-soaked tales of love, loneliness and chance encounters in 1990s Hong Kong. Cool, melancholic, and stylish.

🎟️: tinyurl.com/yc8kcnv8
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 18h
'Portrait of a Girl.' (1904) From early in his career, Ian Strang was recognized as a brilliant draughtsman. He was much admired for his portrait drawings, inspired by those of Hans Holbein in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21h
Mary Cassatt, The Letter, 1890. The Impressionist painter and printmaker was inspired by Japanese woodblock prints for the style, layout, and colours of her work in print #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Print featuring a woman in a blue patterned dress to the left sitting at a desk in an interior while licking the glue of an envelope
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 19h
Lovely. I’m sure it’ll stand up to a second reading! The world he creates feels so textured and realistic, great characterisation and attention to detail throughout.
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Matthew Sullivan @sulli864.bsky.social · 21h
Somewhere on this globe it is still Elmore Leonard’s 100th birthday. Many happy returns to the ‘poet laureate of wild assholes with revolvers’ as the NME, (I think) called him. Away for a fortnight & before I knew it was his centenary 6 of the 12 books I packed were his.
Glitz, Bandits, 52 Pick Up & Gunsights, all in paperback, all by Mr Elmore Leonard.
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