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Title: Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper
Author: Harriet Scott Chessman
Narrator: Harriet Scott Chessman
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-05-17
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:
Ill with Bright's disease and conscious of her approaching death, Lydia Cassatt contemplates her world with courage, openness, and passion. As she addresses and comes to accept her own position as her sister's model, she asks stirring questions about love and art's capacity to remember.

Members Reviews:
A Sweet Story
The sweetest little book. I'm reading it slowly and savoring every minute of it. The author's voice is so authentic that I forget it is not really Lydia writing the book. I love Mary's paintings!!

Good book, messed up copy
It's a lovely book giving a new perspective of Cassatt and her paintings. It actually has reproductions of several of her works tied into the story which makes it a wonderful read. I guess it's what they call historical fiction. I liked it so much that I bought a copy of the book at Amazon for my daughter-in-law, who is a fan of Cassatt, as a gift in hard back copy. The only problem is that 2 or three pages had been bent back and one of the pages is the picture referred to in the title of the book which mostly spoils the book to have a big and permanent crease on that picture. I felt bad about it but didn't have enough time to return the book for another copy. That disappointment made me give it only 4 stars.

Read this in this leisure
This delicious read can only be done beside a fireplace, on a divan, in a cabin, in a hotel before a museum excursion, and certainly after all things have done and you are ready to rich a word show, of colors, quiet feelings, and can withstand the privacy of reading. Be prepared for studying the five pictures and doing more Cassatt research of her work. The book is very short, but I saved it the text before and after studying not only Cassatt's painting but Degas, Courbet, Millet, and of course Renoir. This highly visual reading should be preserved for a very special occasion. Before you read, prepare pot of jasmine tea and drop in five blueberries for the paintings.

Excellent, heart-warming story.
I loved the story of the two sisters sharing their lives and relationship with the famous artist Degas. From what i have read it relates fairly accurately about the connection the sisters had with him. the writing was beautiful, such that I bought two mroe copies to send to my sisters.
I highly recommend this book!

Lydia Cassatt: (sister of Mary Cassatt)
Mary Cassatt, of course, is the American Impressionist artist, who moved with her family to Paris to study painting with the Impressionists there. She became friends with Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, and Sisley. She learned from them, and still had a style and need of her own. It was very hard for women artists to paint for a career in her time. She continued on, to become successful. One of her very famous and most used models was her sister, Lydia. Lydia, the sister is the model in the picture shown. She sat for many of the paintings and died of a terminal disease while in France. We learn so much about the Cassatt family, Lydia and Mary in particular, and Impressionist painting in this little, important, and lovely book.