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Janell’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Janell’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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I read All the Colors of the Dark, My Friends, The Gods of Jade and Sorrow, and The View from Lake Como. Still working on the rest of my list!
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I am adopted. The story of my adoption and the search for my birth family, and a sense of belonging are the plot of my memoir, coming next.
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Adélaïde: Painter of the Revolution
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Adoption and Suicidality: An Anthology of Stories, Poems, and Resources for Adoptees, Families, Healthcare Professionals, and Allies
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A Good Read About Art
In 2016 I visited Adélaïde Labille-Guiard’s Self Portrait with Two Students at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and made a promise to Adélaïde that I would tell her story. She looked down her nose at me, cool, regal, disbelieving, and told me, "I don't believe you can tell my story." I told her I would try.
It took almost ten years for me to feel that I did her story justice, and in April, Read more of this blog post »
It took almost ten years for me to feel that I did her story justice, and in April, Read more of this blog post »
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| A loved this memoir. Francoise Ega had the type of voice that you immediately want to know this person - and I was saddened to realize that she passed away decades ago - but her voice is still real and fresh today. A woman seemingly living in poverty ...more | |
| "Hi! A little more about my book. Adélaïde, Painter of the Revolution, by Janell Strube is an award-winning historical novel based on the life of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, a pioneering female artist in 18th-century France. Set during the French Re..." Read more of this blog post » | |
"Adélaïde: Painter of the Revolution is a richly detailed and emotionally compelling work of historical fiction that brings the life of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard vividly to the page. Janell Strube crafts a narrative that is both intimate and sweeping, c"
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"Adélaïde: Painter of the Revolution is a masterpiece of historical fiction that breathes life into a forgotten corner of history. From the very first page, I was swept away into the vibrant, dangerous streets of Paris on the brink of upheaval. Janell"
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| This was an amazing book! Told in poetry and lyrical prose, still an adventurer's story of traveling into the wilderness and searching for the life and mind of rivers. It's not often that I have to stop and look up words that I cannot even guess at, ...more | |
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