Blanche Horst Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Runaway bride with 2 lovely daughters (and 2 groovy sons-in-law); over-the-moon Grammy. A face in the crowd. Voracious reader. Life is rich. Still pinch myself.

Nothing Personal
James Baldwin
The Light That Bridges the Dark Expanse: James Baldwin on How Long-Distance Love Illuminates the Power of All Love | As long as space & time divide you from anyone you love… love will have no choice but to go into battle with space & time, thus, to win.✨ https://t.co/Ih3pfdJ0Ar
Hardcover, 2021
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Written World and the Unwritten World: Essays
Italo Calvino
BOOKS | ‘The Written World and the Unwritten World’: Italo Calvino, Reconsidered | The New Yorker | Despite his reputation as a postmodernist, Calvino’s imagination was more in tune with pre-modern literary modes. A new collection of essays. https://t.co/DhysdMGgIs
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter
‘Drawn To Nature’: Leap Into the Surprising, Art-Filled Life of Beatrix Potter in a New V&A Exhibition | Smithsonian Magazine | The beloved author of ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ also wrote diaries in code, sketched fungi and raised prize-winning sheep. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/beatrix-potter-peter-rabbit-illustrator-biography-180979756/
Paperback, 2004
$5.99$2.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley
A Museum Guard’s Ode to the Healing Power of Art | In a debut memoir, ‘All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art & Me,’ Patrick Bringley revisits again & again the many ways art meets life, life art, how death is often a bridge btw them. https://t.co/OeCehfc3yp
Paperback, 2024
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife
Ken Jennings
BOOKS | Ken Jennings visits the afterlife in '100 Places to See After You Die' | The Washington Post | The ‘Jeopardy!’ host’s new book, ‘100 Places to See After You Die,’ is a tour of some of the possibilities. https://t.co/uvofG8aC3C
Hardcover, 2023
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Women Holding Things
Maira Kalman
BOOKS | Maira Kalman Considers All That Women Hold | By turns whimsical and poignant, Kalman’s ‘Women Holding Things’ combines two of her most consistent subjects: women and beloved objects. They hold painful histories, clandestine dreams, they hold on.✨ https://t.co/IGUk2jbowz
Hardcover, 2022
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The House by the Sea
May Sarton
‘The House By the Sea’: May Sarton on the Art of Living Alone | The Marginalian | ‘I had a huge amount of life to think about and to digest, and, above all, I was a person by then and knew what I wanted of my life. The people we love are built into us.’ https://t.co/GimKpkYhTi
Paperback, 2011
$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Missing Piece Meets the Big O
Shel Silverstein
The Missing Piece Meets the Big O: Shel Silverstein’s Sweet Allegory for the Simple Secret of Love, the Key to Nurturing Relationships | ‘Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.’ Self-growth. https://t.co/UkI4yIwPaE
Hardcover, 2006
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Caterpillar Dogs: And Other Early Stories
Tennessee Williams
BOOKS | How Thomas Lanier Williams Became Tennessee | The New Yorker | A collection of previously unpublished stories offers a portrait of the playwright as a young artist. Brilliant! https://t.co/Ov6MOdoiKZ
Paperback, 2023
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Hidden Language of Symbols
Matthew Wilson
BOOKS | Beneath the Surface of Art’s Visual Symbolism | Matthew Wilson’s new densely-illustrated book, ‘The Hidden Language of Symbols,’ chronicles the buried visual cues of power, faith, uncertainty, and hope. https://t.co/pYfr5lIXgI
Hardcover, 2022
$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book