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Hello!
Here’s what I’ve been up to this week:
this week’s style icon:
Kate Moss wearing way too much jewelry
what I’m clicking:
Square Dancing at a Nudist Colony
what I’m coveting:
what I’m writing about:
The World’s Most Photogenic Hotel
what I’m reading:
Ali Smith
I can enjoy some magical realism every once in awhile, but it’s just not something I like to be surprised by in a book. I have no idea what this book was really about.
Did it make me cry: No.
Did it make me laugh: No.
Did it make me miss a subway stop: No.
Would I recommend it: No.
Would I read it again: No, but I have another one of her books that I think I might read for some reason.
Would it be a good movie: There are actually a bunch of really good dreamy scenes a la Sofia Coppola, but no, this movie would be about nothing.
what I’m reading right now:
The Luster of Lost Things. It’s incredibly trite. Don’t read this book.
the best book I read in June:
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
the best book I read in May:
the best book I read in April:
the best book I read in March:
the best book I read in February:
The Bone Clocks and Days of Abandonment
the best book I read in January:
what’s on my bookshelf waiting to be read:
Anthropology of an American Girl
what books are on my list to buy (this will take me months to actually do):
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
M Train by Patti Smith
That Patty Hearst book
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
I Love Dick (which is being made into a TV show by Jill Soloway!)
After interviewing Helen Ellis, I added a few books from her “classic trashy” book club to my list.
What are you reading? (You can reply to this email and tell me)
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