Redwood City: A Hometown History Book

This book is a little dated. There are mentions of letters that eventually changed numbers as more letters were found and added as well as one of the Bedrooms at the time of this book being written that hung in the Louvre that is no longer there.
I for one don’t quite see this as the book I hoped for when I read the description. Although the author shows multiple different possibilities that could have made Vincent the way he was, no matter what the main idea is it always comes with a religious base. In Art History, we only touched that with ‘Oh he was a religious man before he started painting’ and that is it. I had never seen any of his paintings with a religious idea or affiliation/hidden symbols, besides the ones he copied the originals of earlier artist that were religious paintings.
Also, I never saw Vincent with any sort of Homosexual intention or thought. Reading other books about him, I would have never thought that one of his frustrations could have been for his conflicting feelings of possible homosexual intent. He never really came across as that, and with myself understanding the struggles of being apart of the LGBTQ+ Community, I would have never guess he may have been queer. His love and longing to be married and have children just seems way to strong for him...plus he only admired Gauguin as the artist he was, not as the person (Gauguin was often incredibly rude to Vincent and Vincent’s style of art).
I love Van Gogh and his artwork and will always admirer him as one of my favorite artists of all time, and although there are some ideas I downright disagree with put forth by this author, it was still an interesting read.