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 writing a sequel to a worldwide cultural phenomenon the Handmaid’s Tale. Here’s trying.
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I sometimes pick a reading project for a holiday, meaning that I try to cover the entire works of the chosen author. Sometimes I manage within the timeframe I have, often not (also depending on the author: I would not attempt Joyce Carol Oates or Margaret Atwood in three to four weeks). This summer it was Lorrie Moore.
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The white cotton shirt is not a classic for nothing. Everybody from Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction to Meghan Markle last week is wearing it, it’s appropriate to wear anywhere, and almost without exception it looks good on anyone. Herewith a few hacks.
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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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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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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.
Continue reading “Vive la Rentrée!”
