So I read The Testaments. I’m having difficulties with putting together a coherent post about the book, though probably my pressure is not nearly as unsurmountable as that of Margaret Atwood’s as she went about… More
How To: Carpe the Ordinary Diem
There’s still a couple of weeks to run around in Havaianas and slivers of tie-dyed Indian cotton before the temperatures sink to single digits. This year, I suggest we be prepared. The list below looks daunting, but it’s not like I’m asking you to daily fold your socks to make them autonomously stand up in the drawers as Marie Kondo would have it. The below needs to be done once a year.
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One In Ten
I read Norwegian author Karen Havelin‘s novel “Please Read This Leaflet Carefully” already in May, on my way back from New York. I read a book review about it in the Guardian last week and it lingered back onto my radar. The novel is about a Norwegian expat who lives in New York and suffers from severe endometriosis. “Niche!” you scream. “One in ten” is my response.
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Vive la Rentrée!
It’s a new month and a new moon. Mercury is no longer in retrograde so I’m not sure what to blame my problems on anymore, but work started today and very soon it is November again.
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Not Behaving As Expected
The more the world seems to be on actual fire, the more my attention tends to hover to smaller, rather meaningless things. Admittedly, I have the luxury of not having to consult newspapers regularly as I’m still on holiday, but it is a spectacular sensation to be able to float along, not fretting about every tweet that hits the retina.
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Weekend Wrap-Up
I went to see Once Upon a Time in Hollywood this weekend. It’s Tarantino’s ninth film, possibly his penultimate movie, if we are to believe his own remarks from last year. How does a feminist view a two-and-a-half-hour, almost all male violence-fest?
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Glossy, Happy People
Even if you’d (want to) have nothing to do with the contouring makeup trend, you will have noticed that the mere application of foundation and matte powder these days seems very “Pearl Jam & a velvet choker -90s”. It’s hilarious how we are being reminded that our makeup should make our faces look as three-dimensional as possible, in case someone had confused physical reality with one-dimensional virtual reality.
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