Quote de jour

From the August 23rd issue of New York Magazine: Sam Anderson reviews Freedom, the new novel from Jonathan Franzen: "Some of Freedom's sentences are so well-written you want to pluck then out, stab them with little corn holders, and eat them:"Like a cold spring at the bottom of a warmer lake, old Swedish-gened depression was seeping up inside him."

He's everywhere: the cover of Time magazine, almost every magazine I've picked up lately has an article about him and his new novel Freedom. If I hear the word genius one more time I'll scream but I did order his book anyway. Oh, and you don't need to be psychic to predict his book with hit the New York Times best seller list next week.

Fall fashion already? Yes and it's good for a change. Classic camel coats, feminine menswear, some lower-heeled shoes, yummy cabled sweaters and leggings. For once I'm ready to let go of flip flops and bundle up.



Books this week:
A novel titled One Day by David Nicholls about two characters who meet once a year on the same date for twenty years.


A new bio on Jack London. How could I resist? More later. In the interest of squeezing out the last of drops of summer fun, I'm enroute to hubby's childhood borough of Brooklyn.