Anne Bogel

And her focus is this fictional artist who's this, she describes him as a successful but enigmatic mid-century painter who's supposed to be the subject of her dissertation, except she's not writing it.

But she comes to this realization that really you reminded me of with your words about art.

She just reflects on how she loves art.

She doesn't know why.

She loves the mystery of it.

And she reflects on how no one in the thousands of years that art has existed, has been made by humans, has ever given a satisfactory explanation of what it actually does and why it affects us and how it affects us and what it all means to

And why do certain works of art affect some people and not others?

And she says all these people have written millions upon millions of words about art.

And she's read so many of them.

But she says not a single sentence has come close to capturing that visceral response she had when she looks at a painting that for whatever reason she loves.

And she says it's not logical.

It makes no sense.

But it's real.

And that is why I love art.

And that kind of reminded me of what you said.

Like, we can't understand it.

I mean, we can't understand why we're drawn to it, but we can learn more about the things we're drawn to.

And in this book, which is a murder mystery, and it begins in this like dramatic fashion, then you go back and learn about the bad choices she made that led to her being at the scene of a crime when an art gallerist is murdered.

Oh, and an $18 million painting is missing.

But she knows all these things about art, but it's not just the knowledge.