My down the street neighbor dropped off an armload of magazines. And I have enjoyed going thru them tearing out interesting images-like this one. Not much different from where I am right now but I don't have that sort of lamp or the shelves on the back wall. My chair is an office chair on wheels. But it is comfortable. This desk is in the art studio of an artist. The rest of the photos are of the studio itself.
I like the magazines my neighbor reads. They have lots of interior decor ideas and they have lots of art on the pages. Eye Candy Magazines. She also gave me three Vanity Fair issues. Which are strange and interesting- especially the in depth tell all articles on famous people or famous murder mysteries.
I spent a few delightful hours ripping pages out of the tall stack of magazines. Only one Gun and Garden which, oddly enough, has become something of a favorite. The American South is very interesting to me. Not so much the hunting and fishing but the people -so much mystery in the photographs of them. And the recipes are interesting as well. Who would I be if we had stayed in the southern States and not moved North? I'm certain that my intake of gin and vodka would be much higher than allowed here in Maine (by my husband).
I am reading Karen Swan's Christmas at Tiffany's which has very little to do with Christmas. A 30 something married woman (in Scotland) finds out her husband has been in love with her best friend and fathered a child. Her three best friends gather her up and each takes custody of her for 4 months. Giving her a place to stay, finding her a job and trying to change her. New York City. Paris. London. She has just left NYC and is getting used to Paris. I loved this book the first two times I read it. And I am loving it this time as well. Each time I read it- I am different- I see things differently.
This has been the best part of COVID. I am here- re-reading books I loved once or twice before. But I am not who I was when I read them-before. I am better. More sure of who I am these days. Finally. I can let go of things that bothered me in years past. Grudges I held. Anger issues. Abandonment issues.
DebL- I think I could read your manuscript now without all that baggage.
I wonder if you might like a book called "Up Island" by Anne Rivers Siddons. It's an older book about a woman who finds out her husband is cheating. Her mother has died and her children are grown. She packs up and moves, living as a caretaker at a small house and serves as tender to two swans. There's a lot more to it than that. I kind of hesitate to mention it. I know you liked Drive Your Plow but not the other one I thought you would like.
ReplyDeleteThe Red Address Book- wasn't the right time for it. I still intend to read it but now this year.
ReplyDeleteI got into it possibly 30 or 40 pages and just stopped. And then it's due date arrived.
Connie recommends books as well. She and I seem to be on the same wave length right now.
Drive Your Plow- now that book was something. Another friend knew from the start who had killed the guy. I did not.