Book Announcement!

I'm beginning an amazing book about Vincent Van Gogh that I've been wanting to read for a while now.

This image does not do the book justice - it's literally gorgeous

It's called Van Gogh: The Life. I've been lusting after this book since it was published a few years ago, and now I have a copy. Huzzah!

So my goals for this book are to a) learn more about Van Gogh (because, despite my love of his artwork and that one Doctor Who episode that he was the focus of, I know absolutely nothing about him) and b) find some more amazing and inspiring quotes from him to post around my room.

I've made it through a couple of chapters already, but my goal to keep up with the awesome Van Gogh quotes is to underline them all in purple. And not really to mark anything else in the book.

I'd also like to try and blog along with this book, so we'll see how that goes.

Please feel free to check out my last liveblog of a book on my tumblr page - I liveblogged my three day read of Donna Tartt's The Secret History (and how much it absolutely blew my mind).

I'm so excited to share this biography with everyone (if there is anyone who reads this besides me and occasionally my family) - it combines my love of literature with my love of history, which is my goal for this blog.