i didn't forget about you
Hi!
I don’t know where the day went (time flies when you’re hanging out in the waiting room at the dentist). Here’s this week’s newsletter, just in time for your commute home:
this week’s style icon:
Holly Hunter in Top of the Lake
what I’m clicking:
I got to see Solange’s performance at the Guggenheim last week and it was… unbelievable. I don’t think I have ever been to a concert like that and I feel like we all got to see inside of her soul. She is so likeable and if you don’t beleive me, just read the letter she wrote to her teenage self | Writing your way to happiness | Two movies I’m now desperate to see: this twitter-induced fever dream that involves Rihanna, Lupita Nyongo, Ava DuVernay, and Issa Rae and The Glass Castle starring Brie Larson (now I have to reread the book!) | Every color cardigan that Mister Rogers wore from 1979 - 2001 | The stranger-than-fiction true story behind the failed Fyre Festival
what I’m wanderlusting:
Verana Hotel in Yelapa, Mexico
what I’m arting about (can somebody please give me a better name for this section?):
Glen Baldridge & Elias Hansen at Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton. They have a $30,000 chandelier made out of beer bottles for sale.
what I’m coveting:
This sold out Tuesday Bassen x Group Partner planter
what I’m reading:
The Magicians Trilogy, A.K.A Harry Potter with sex and drugs
Lev Grossman
I know I’m so late to the game on this, but I read the first one of these books a few weeks ago and I finally bought the second and third in the trilogy last week. I enjoyed reading these books so much and I’m sad they’re over. For a kid who grew up on Narnia and Harry Potter, these books were just bridging the gap between children’s, young adult, and literary fiction.
Did it make me cry: No.
Did it make me laugh: Yes! They’re pretty funny.
Did it make me miss a subways stop: Yes, but in my defense I wasn’t doing my regular commute and totally forgot where I was going.
Would I recommend it: I think anybody who would love these books has already read them, but if you have a 14-17 year old in your life, I urge you to buy these books for them. I wish I had read these in high school. Also, I think it’s worth mentioning that if you really loved these books, you should read The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell. And on the off chance that you’re a Narnia/Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings fan and you haven’t read these books, RUN to the nearest library/bookstore.
Would I read it again: Yes. Just like I’ve read Harry Potter 12 times, I could see myself rereading this entire series over again. Maybe not 12 times, but definitely once.
Would it be a good movie: It would have to be a very long series and very high budget, but I can’t help feeling it would all come across as a little … cheesy. I know it’s been made into a TV show that I haven’t watched yet, but I don’t really like how much liberty TV writers take with the plot when they adapt something unless it’s a miniseries.
Patricia Lockwood
I like memoirs. I think probably more than most people like memoirs. I really liked this book, mostly because I found the cast of characters extremely likeable and charismatic. I want to go on a vacation with her mom.
Did it make me cry: No.
Did it make me laugh: Yes, I really liked her sense of humor, but it’s a specific sense of humor.
Did it make me miss a subways stop: No.
Would I recommend it: If you like memoirs by random people about their dysfunctional families or if you like the poem that made her famous, you should read this.
Would I read it again: No.
Would it be a good movie: Nah. There’s not enough plot.
what I’m reading right now:
H Is For Hawk. This book feels like straight-up homework but I’m going to (maybe) finish it anyways.
the best book I read in May:
I’m calling it early for Priestdaddy
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:
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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