petunia's book reviews

Walk Through Walls: A Memoir by Marina Abramović My rating: 5 of 5 stars View all my reviews

Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi My rating: 3 of 5 stars View all my reviews

Happiness by Design: Change What You Do, Not How You Think by Paul Dolan My rating: 3 of 5 stars View all my reviews

Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg My rating: 3 of 5 stars this book has a very unique style, though i couldn't stand the number of exclamation points: !!! this is perhaps such a strange thing to complain about - but it actually really tampered my reading experience cos there was way too much shouting in my head haha View all my reviews

Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg My rating: 4 of 5 stars View all my reviews

Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton My rating: 5 of 5 stars Alain de Botton is such an interesting writer. When I am reading his writing, I feel very calm, like everything will be okay and there is nothing to worry about. It is very lulling. I really enjoyed this book. The artworks which he prints in this book are in colour unlike in 'therapeutic journey', where they are in black and white! I found this an annoying point about 'therapeutic journey'. I love art and going to galleries, as well as therapy (lol) and so it was really interesting how Botton incorporated the two. I was interested for a while in studying Art Therapy as a Masters programme, and it never really occurred to me that the therapy can be simply in the viewing rather than the creating of art. I thought the way he hinted at how museums can be rearranged was very interesting, having different kind of 'mood rooms', and moving through the museum like moving through...

Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton My rating: 5 of 5 stars Very interesting book new ways of seeing View all my reviews