When a Love of Books Turns into A Love of Friends, You Have a Book Club!
Our Founders
Vanessa – Founder
Hi! I’m Vanessa! I grew up on the SW coast of Florida. Although my heart still calls it home, my physical self is currently in Nebraska. I joined TikTok after working from home for a couple of years, and missing the day to day interactions I had with people. Books have always been something I enjoyed, and once I discovered there was a whole community full of fellow book dragons, I knew I had found my people. I love that I found a space that has been so welcoming and open to helping me learn and grow as a reading enthusiast. This is a feeling I want to give back to anyone else who’s in need of a book friend.
Emily – Founder
Hey y’all! I’m Emily! I lived most of my life in Georgia and then spent a short time in Alabama, and finally landed in Tennessee where I live with my wife and our 4 fur babies. I have always been a voracious reader, but didn’t have many of friends with such a passion for eating up pages as fast as I do. I started playing around on TikTok to pass the time and I stumbled upon this amazing community that has become my family in every sense of the word. Like Vanessa, I work and go to school from home, so being able forge relationships out of that and then further putting together this book club with her and Denise has been an honor.
Denise – Founder
Hey y’all! I’m Denise (aka Neecee). I was born in Germany with a military dad; we moved all over – from NYC to Alabama, Indiana, Vegas, and back to Alabama with my family. I work as a patient care technician and I’m in school for my RN Degree. I joined TikTok in 2020 when the pandemic had us furloughed for several months. My escape was reading and social media. Recently, I fell into the booktok rabbit hole and haven’t looked back. I never thought I could find such amazing people, especially Vanessa and Emily (my soul sisters). I can honestly say I am truly blessed to have them in my life.
Woman with a Book
1932 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Among Picasso’s most celebrated likenesses of his lover Marie-Thérèse Walter, Woman with a Book balances sensuality and restraint, enclosing exuberant, thickly applied color in a network of sinuous black lines. The composition pays homage to the Neoclassical master of line, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, whose work Picasso had admired since his youth, and whose Portrait of Madame Moitessier the Spanish painter had first encountered in 1921. Resting his model’s head on her hand, and replacing Madame Moitessier’s fan with the fluttering pages of a book, Picasso tapped into the eroticism latent beneath Ingres’s image of bourgeois respectability. The serene profile reflected in a mirror at right in Picasso’s portrait likewise references its Neoclassical precedent but may also constitute an abstract self-portrait.
