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Book Review of Girl with a Pearl Earring

Girl with a Pearl Earring
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Helpful Score: 1


I'm the type of person who will click "Order More from This Member" to see if there is something else on a member's bookshelf that I want to read. Usually I strike out. This time I struck it rich!

There was something about the title, and the cover art, of this book that stuck in the back of my mind. I wanted to read it, to see what the book was about. When I looked on the internet for "spoilers", all I could find were raves. I was prepared for this book to have darker, sexual themes, since you can clearly read the attraction in Vermeer's painting. However, those themes were absent from the book and Vermeer was shown to be a respectable man.

I've heard that there is a movie that accompanies this book and now that I've read the book, I'm itching to watch the movie.

Definitely ranked "I love it" on the star rating system.