Greetings from the Pandemic Plateau, a (mainly) mental space where nothing moves. The summer holiday traveling circus is over, the second wave est arrivée and Uranus has gone retrograde, though if you ask me, it feels as if the whole world has been exactly in there since about March.
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I’ve done the literary equivalent of sucking my thumb while listening to a lullaby of my own opinions – Pandora Sykes’ how do we know we’re doing it right? was an experience that had me nod, nod nod from the first essay to last. It was not in vain, though, as I got the validation the end that I am, in fact, doing everything absolutely right.
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I felt I had the Obama-era cabinet members and advisers pretty well covered already – those who had served in the White House (such as Michelle Obama, Alyssa Mastromonaco and Beck Dorey-Stein) and those who should have served in the White House (Hillary Clinton), but I came across another book that I didn’t want to pass on: The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power.
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A few tried and tested beauty hacks and holiday reads.
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Life is not fair. Unless maybe if you’re the Satan who’s watching the world from the Satan-place (possibly together with Karma). I knew this, and was again reminded of the theory of it when I read Maria Konnikova’s brilliant The Biggest Bluff. Life is absolutely not fair, even if your crystal collection tells you otherwise.
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Much of film and TV-production has been put on hold because of the pandemic, but recently we have been absolutely spoiled with world-class entertainment, namely the gross details coming from the Depp-Heard libel suit, currently ongoing in the UK. Get your popcorn ready! This way to the Mad Hatter’s tea party!
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