Tom put in a 14-hour day of driving yesterday and arrived home a little after 9:00 last night.  He brought home lots of rock from Glass Buttes and fish from Idaho, and is looking forward to not freezing his buns off for a while.

I stayed up reading last night, and before I realized it the clock read midnight.  So obviously I would have been happier to sleep past 5:00 this morning.

One very special work of art—a Chaim Soutine painting—will connect the lives and fates of two different women, generations apart, in this enthralling and transporting debut novel that moves from World War II Vienna to contemporary Los Angeles.

The lost painting at the heart of the book is “The Bellhop,”

a fictional amalgam of Chaim Soutine’s bellboys and hotel porters.

There is a one-line mention in the book of Klimt's

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the subject of the movie Woman in Gold.