24 Monday Aug 2020
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Reading: Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life by Marta McDowell, a wonderful combination of biography, (horti)cultural history, poetry, and period illustrations.
Audio: My friend T. and I have decided that this is a moment to revive the 1970s “easy listening” genre.
Video: We just started Lovecraft Country.
Continue reading29 Wednesday Jul 2020
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July!! How are you holding up?! We’re having a heat wave right now so I’m laying low…which isn’t much of a change.
Reading: Jacqueline Woodson’s Red at the Bone. I highly recommend this novel.
Audio: Lots of Blondie lately.
Continue reading30 Tuesday Jun 2020
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Reading: Just finished W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn.
Audio: The Cure, especially The Top.
Video: Tell Me Who I Am on Netflix. (Intense.) Never Have I Ever. (Warm-hearted.)
20 Wednesday May 2020
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Reading: Still getting through Colette’s Claudine novels. Also, dipping into some coffee-table books about perfume bottles.
Audio: A Lloyd Cole “listening party” on Twitter, organized by Tim Burgess, with Mr. Cole himself! I’m definitely going to “attend” more of these.
Video: Finished Season 5 of “Schitt’s Creek” and Season 1 of “Broadchurch.” Two very different moods!
02 Saturday May 2020
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Reading: I’m reading Colette’s Claudine novels for the first time.
Audio: Anna Sui’s latest Spotify contribution, a “Work from Home” playlist
Video: Better Call Saul. Also, using Netflix and Amazon to circle back to classic movies I haven’t seen in ages and ages, like The Eyes of Laura Mars.
23 Monday Mar 2020
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Reading: A collection of Fran Lebowitz essays that I haven’t read in a while, for comic relief.
Audio: The news. Too much news. And a disco playlist that a colleague created for Spotify, to clear my mind afterwards.
Video: “Schitt’s Creek”…more welcome comic relief.
27 Thursday Feb 2020
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Reading: Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle, picked up from the book swap pile at work.
Audio: Some disco playlists, to get ready for a project at work
Video: Parasite. And the last few episodes of The Good Place. I really loved this show.
27 Monday Jan 2020
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Happy 2020 and Year of the Rat! I’m doing this list a little later in the month than usual. What have you been up to lately?
Reading: Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser.
Audio: I just realized that WNYC’s “American Standards” has a streaming channel. How did I not know this?!
Video: Season 3 of The Crown. Some really outstanding actors in this season, including the ones who portray Prince Charles and Princess Anne.
23 Monday Dec 2019
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I haven’t written anything over the past couple weeks, due to the gloomy weather, fatigue from a lingering sinus infection, and sadness over Gaia’s passing. So I’ll ease back into things with this monthly round-up. Feel free to share your own doings in the comments!
Reading: Debbie Harry’s memoir, Face It. Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (for the first time in…a long time!).
Audio: Annie Lennox, A Christmas Cornucopia
