Sarah

This book intrigued me just from the cover and title. I decided to just pick it up and give it a chance. Now I love learning about random cults and just interesting stuff throughout history.

I was expecting more from this book! It was very long winded and often times I ended up becoming bored within a chapter. It was a lot of over explanation of things that could have been just a paragraph instead of an entire chapter. Mind you, I did learn something from this book, I just wish it was edited a bit better so readers can actually be invested in this book.

I took me a few months to even finish it. If you have a very long road trip or some flights I suggest reading this book, otherwise just don't pick it up.

If you have no idea who Gordon Parks is this is the perfect biography to get an insight into his life and how he learned photography. It was an adventure from start to finish where he touched base on the struggles of poverty and racism in the world.

This is a very interesting read, not only because of it being during WW2, but because of the women it's about. I would have never known about such intricate details of the Nazi invasion on Jersey and the lengths that people went through. If you like history, and some twists here and there I recommend this book!

I really tried to finish this book, but it was so bad.

I enjoyed learning about Joan Mitchell. The author had was very detailed on the accounts of Joan's life and the relationships of not only partners, but friends as well. I will say that the author used language that just didn't flow very well, for example just throwing in synonyms that just seems she wanted to use a big word in the sentence.

The research was well done, but a lot of the information was back story to certain peoples lives that I don't think was needed to get the life story of Joan.

Overall it was a good read and if you want more information on Joan Mitchell this is a good source.