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A review by tophat8855
The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair
4.0
The format of this book lends itself to reading in small bites. If you want to read non-fiction, but in little bits, this is a good one for you.
Each section is a pigment and the author usually finds a couple historical stories around that pigment to share, often sharing how that pigment is made as well. The depth of the stories varied throughout the book and that inconsistency felt unsatisfying. I think you could probably go a lot deeper in many of these pigments but, perhaps for space, she did not.
It is interesting if you want some small blog-sized bits about colors. Lots of people died for fashion, I’ll tell you that.
Each section is a pigment and the author usually finds a couple historical stories around that pigment to share, often sharing how that pigment is made as well. The depth of the stories varied throughout the book and that inconsistency felt unsatisfying. I think you could probably go a lot deeper in many of these pigments but, perhaps for space, she did not.
It is interesting if you want some small blog-sized bits about colors. Lots of people died for fashion, I’ll tell you that.