What I'm Reading This Week -- June 14, 2009
Quote de jour
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
~Edward P. Morgan
Busy reading and writing week. This is only a partial listing. Color combo de jour in fashion and design? Pink and green. Lot's of bold primary colors too and red, red, red for dresses.
Oh, oh, Oprah! Enough with wacky guests like Suzanne Somers taking 60 vitamins a day. It was nice to finally see someone else other than the big O on the cover of O, but honestly am I the only one getting tired of seeing Michelle everywhere?
I can't believe I'm still reading Cosmo after all these years. I guess once a Cosmo girl, always a Cosmo girl. I began reading Helen Gurley Brown's brainchild magazine when I was 18 and found it shocking. Nothing in it shocks me anymore, but I continue to read it out of habit and to stay current. Cosmo would be thrilled to know I've barely missed an issue in over three decades. A new bio on Ms. Brown is out and I had to read it. Bad Girls Go Everywhere by Jennifer Scanlon. It wasn't as juicy as it could have been and clearly written by a professor of gender studies, but a good read anyway. Great title but I found it alarming to see an 86-year-old woman photoshopped to look twenty, but I still love ya. http://www.cosmopolitan.com/
I've been mad about reading short story collections this past year. Nothing could beat John Cheever's massive book (see last week) but Paul Theroux comes close. He is a genius of travel writing, of evoking place in either his fiction or non-fiction writing. The Stranger at the Palazzo D'Oro and other Stories dazzles, and not just because I adore Venice.
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
~Edward P. Morgan
Busy reading and writing week. This is only a partial listing. Color combo de jour in fashion and design? Pink and green. Lot's of bold primary colors too and red, red, red for dresses.
Oh, oh, Oprah! Enough with wacky guests like Suzanne Somers taking 60 vitamins a day. It was nice to finally see someone else other than the big O on the cover of O, but honestly am I the only one getting tired of seeing Michelle everywhere?
I can't believe I'm still reading Cosmo after all these years. I guess once a Cosmo girl, always a Cosmo girl. I began reading Helen Gurley Brown's brainchild magazine when I was 18 and found it shocking. Nothing in it shocks me anymore, but I continue to read it out of habit and to stay current. Cosmo would be thrilled to know I've barely missed an issue in over three decades. A new bio on Ms. Brown is out and I had to read it. Bad Girls Go Everywhere by Jennifer Scanlon. It wasn't as juicy as it could have been and clearly written by a professor of gender studies, but a good read anyway. Great title but I found it alarming to see an 86-year-old woman photoshopped to look twenty, but I still love ya. http://www.cosmopolitan.com/
I've been mad about reading short story collections this past year. Nothing could beat John Cheever's massive book (see last week) but Paul Theroux comes close. He is a genius of travel writing, of evoking place in either his fiction or non-fiction writing. The Stranger at the Palazzo D'Oro and other Stories dazzles, and not just because I adore Venice.
Posted by Layla Morgan Wilde at 6/14/2009 12:16 PM 
Categories: What I'm Reading This Week
Tags: Cosmo girl Paul Theroux Helen Gurley Brown
Categories: What I'm Reading This Week
Tags: Cosmo girl Paul Theroux Helen Gurley Brown
Wow Layla, that's a massive pile of magazines you're reading!
i'm rereading the yellowed pages of John LeCarre's Smiley's People (1979) which I read in appr 1980 - unusual because i rarely read novels these days.
Stay cool! Jude
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Cosmo rocks!
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hello dear Layla... i looove your choice of all these reading materials... awesome... soooo much to read, so little time... ugh... love and hugs...
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