What can I say but, "Yay!!!"

Cybele wrote:I'm kind of excited about a new book about John & George Keats, to be released next month: http://www.amazon.com/Keats-Brothers-Life-John-George/dp/0674048563/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315191773&sr=8-1
What can I say but, "Yay!!!"
Ennis wrote:Cybele wrote:I'm kind of excited about a new book about John & George Keats, to be released next month: http://www.amazon.com/Keats-Brothers-Life-John-George/dp/0674048563/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315191773&sr=8-1
What can I say but, "Yay!!!"
MrsRsCat wrote:I am hugely enjoying this book which was a Christmas present from one of my daughters. In fact so hugely enjoying it I read it in treat-sized chunks to spin it out. There's an awful lot of new (to me anyway) information and contemporary political background information to digest anyway, so I have to concentrate.
Gigante brings the brothers and their whole circle to life. Which is a strong contrast to that big fat book about Haydon by O'Keefe which I ploughed through dutifully. Dogged determination more like. Seldom have I read a biography that was so leaden, with so little feeling for the subject. A book about an artist, if you please, with a dearth of illustrations and those that were badly printed, many with no or inadequate captions. I felt like asking the publisher for my money back.
The Keats Brothers, on the other hand, is generously illustrated.
And I am the sort of sad person who revels in extraneous details like knowing the name of the gardener at Wentworth Place (old Philips) and the name of the Dilke dog (Boxer) so I'm a very happy bunny at the moment. Poor Haydon needs a Gigante.
MrsRsCat wrote:Probably genetic given both his sons went the same way."
Seldom have I read a biography that was so leaden, with so little feeling for the subject."
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