Praise for All Things Move
Elegantly voiced [...] [Marshall's] declaration of a point of view, that sense of personal experience in the face of great art and especially the right to have personal experience in the face of great art, proves to be as worthy a subject as the Sistine Chapel itself.
-Washington Post
Jeannie Marshall's All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel brings Michelangelo's frescoes into exacting view, considering not only the details of the images and context of their making, but their ongoing situatedness in human history.
-Ploughshares
Informative, insightful, perceptive, thought-provoking, and exceptionally 'reader friendly' in organization and presentation, All Things Move: Learning to Look in the Sistine Chapel is unreservedly recommended.
-Midwest Book Review
A sublime meditation on the Sistine Chapel.
-The National Catholic Register
All Things Move is an extended essay on how we experience art [...] evocative and illuminating, a moving meditation on the human impulse both to create art and to experience its power.
-Winnipeg Free Press
A testament to quiet patience, and what we gain when we let go of preconceptions of how we are supposed to interact with an artwork of any medium or discipline.
-Quill & Quire
Jeannie Marshall's book All Things Move addresses the splendor of the iconic Sistine Chapel from personal and universal perspectives [...] an all-encompassing intimate tour of the Sistine Chapel's extraordinary wonders
-Foreword Reviews
'Great Art' can often have a highbrow, inaccessible aura, but Marshall's individual approach to the Sistine Chapel makes it so compelling.
-McGill Tribune
Jeannie Marshall offers a meditation on the timeless values and personal meanings in both art and religion. Full of insights into everyone from Michelangelo and Martin Luther to Barnett Newman, All Things Move is a celebration of the power of art to make us see, feel and think.
-Ross King, author of Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
All Things Move is not just another book, written in clear and lively sentences that anyone will want to read, detailing the history and creation of one of the greatest works of art known to mankind. It's a book that actually operates in the opposite direction-a book about how we experience that work of art, and why the experience is so unforgettable. Michelangelo made a great and lasting work of art that changed history. But in Marshall's gifted hands, our experience of it becomes an adventure and a work of art in its own right. This is a book about discovery, unlike anything you have read before.
-Ian Brown, author of Sixty
In the manner of the late W. G. Sebald, who shattered sundry barriers in his writing, Jeannie Marshall has produced a prose poem, a deeply personal, multi-layered, and thoroughly captivating meditation on art, spirituality, and life. I was both moved and enchanted.
-Modris Eksteins, author of Solar Dance
Praise for Jeannie Marshall
Marshall's clear, direct book ably captures the frustrations of trying to find the healthiest path and inspiring kids to do the same.
-Kirkus Reviews
Marshall ... writes passionately about the dangers posed by processed foods-not just to our children's health but to our way of life, our human attachment to the 'ordinary happiness' of meals cooked at home from real foods.
-Boston Globe
Engaging ... admirably well-researched ... a well-timed eye-opener.
-Chris Nuttal-Smith, Globe and Mail
Outside the Box is about teaching kids how to appreciate real food but also about how globalization is changing the way the world eats. In this beautifully written book about what needs to be done to preserve food culture in Italy and elsewhere, Marshall makes the political personal as she explains how she is teaching her son to enjoy the pleasures of eating food prepared, cooked and lovingly shared by friends and family.
-Marion Nestle, author of Food Politics
