Maddy Fleming > Recent Status Updates

About a city no longer feeling like hers…”Each corner held a particular memory with whom she had no one to turn to and remember.”

Picasso is the most stolen artist of all time. Picasso himself commissioned a theft from the louvre in his 20s of two figurines he used as inspiration. He was arrested under suspicion of being behind the Mona Lisa theft but he was not. He returned the figurines anonymously after.
Art police squad would be an interesting niche. FBI has a ten most wanted list of missing art.

“Museums are secular churches and to steal there is blasphemous.”

Great point too that museums will invest in new acquisitions over protecting current catalogue bc one brings in more guests

I literally am considering DNFing an hour from the end; I’m just bored and not invested

Audiobook has really high production value and cool effects for the podcast, voicemails, etc. but the voice of Xander is distractingly bizarre - an unidentifiable accent.

I’m envious of how meticulously remembered and precisely captured Lena’s life to date is - curious to look up press about how she journals…she also is gifted at describing the people in her life and specifically the qualities in a person she admires; the quotes and anecdotes she includes really make these people come to life. Would make a good eulogizer.