What I'm Reading This Week - Oct.17, 2010
Quote de jour
"A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.... What I began by reading, I must finish by acting."
~Henry David Thoreau
This week's magazines are a mix of shock and awe. Lindsay Lohan looking more retro and less train wreck on the cover of Vanity Fair. Gabby on Elle is transcendent and a pleasant change from toothpick models.The black and white photo trend continues with a yummy Javier Bardem on Esquire. Eliot Spitzer on cable is plain icky, proving how short the public's memory truly is. More earth tones for autumn, Halloween of course and, I'm itching to make a getaway of my own to meditate on our mad hunger for celebrity culture.
Some books get a ton of press without living up to their promises and accolades, but the killer novel Juliet by Anne Fortier does. The Danish writer is also a producer of the Emmy award winning documentary Fire and Ice: The Winter War of Finland and Russia which I loved given my Finnish roots. She has a beautiful website that I'm coveting AnneFortier.com
At the nexus Hollywood and woo woo is the fluffy but delightful memoir God the Universe and Where I Fit In by psychic Laurie Ann Levin, a former agent and film producer married to the former CEO of Time Warner. Ms. Levin reinvented herself as a psychologist and CEO of Moonview Sanctuary, the ultimate temple to all things New Age (and rehab) in Santa Monica. They have the best web designer money can buy and hey, for a mere $5,000 a day they'll custom design a holistic treatment plan just for you. May Lindsay Lohan should go? Moonview Sanctuary
"A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.... What I began by reading, I must finish by acting."
~Henry David Thoreau
This week's magazines are a mix of shock and awe. Lindsay Lohan looking more retro and less train wreck on the cover of Vanity Fair. Gabby on Elle is transcendent and a pleasant change from toothpick models.The black and white photo trend continues with a yummy Javier Bardem on Esquire. Eliot Spitzer on cable is plain icky, proving how short the public's memory truly is. More earth tones for autumn, Halloween of course and, I'm itching to make a getaway of my own to meditate on our mad hunger for celebrity culture.
Some books get a ton of press without living up to their promises and accolades, but the killer novel Juliet by Anne Fortier does. The Danish writer is also a producer of the Emmy award winning documentary Fire and Ice: The Winter War of Finland and Russia which I loved given my Finnish roots. She has a beautiful website that I'm coveting AnneFortier.com
At the nexus Hollywood and woo woo is the fluffy but delightful memoir God the Universe and Where I Fit In by psychic Laurie Ann Levin, a former agent and film producer married to the former CEO of Time Warner. Ms. Levin reinvented herself as a psychologist and CEO of Moonview Sanctuary, the ultimate temple to all things New Age (and rehab) in Santa Monica. They have the best web designer money can buy and hey, for a mere $5,000 a day they'll custom design a holistic treatment plan just for you. May Lindsay Lohan should go? Moonview Sanctuary
Posted by Layla Morgan Wilde at 10/17/2010 11:25 AM 
Categories: What I'm Reading This Week
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Categories: What I'm Reading This Week
Tags: Anne Fortier Moonview Sancuary Laurie Ann Levin what I'm reading this week Lindsay Lohan rehab
I am also reading Juliet. It is an interesting read. As a milkman's son I grew up speaking and counting change in Finnish in Keewenaw County Michigan. I have forgotten most of the language since then. I still have a warm place in my heart for Finnish people and sauna on Saturdays in the winter.
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You are? Let me know how you like the ending. Yes, what could be better than a sauna on Saturday?
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Thoreau's words. Totally.
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Yes, indeed.
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