So here we are at the end of 2015. I had this idea that maybe in 2016 I’ll get really good about writing down all the super-excellent things that happen to me that year, and that way I won’t be struggling to think of them when the end of the year rolls around. My best thing of 2015 (brace yourself for a shock) was the musical Hamilton. Not a full week after I whined to my friends that I feared there would never be another musical that made me feel the way Wicked and Rent made me feel, and maybe…
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Here’s what’s happening, y’all. My sister has been in town, and I am moving house. I have been doing lots of cool, fun stuff with my sister. We went to see the coolest ever exhibit at the Museum of Arts and Design the other day, this thing about small worlds, which was so unbelievably beautiful. And we went a-picnicking on Governors Island on Sunday, wearing flapper dresses. Then also I am moving house. I’ve finally found a new apartment (yay!) in an area that looks like I’m going to like a lot, with roommates who seem terribly nice, and a…
57 CommentsI’ve said before that I like the kind of novel where you have two sets of characters in two different time periods, and the novel goes back and forth between them. Especially when one of the sets of characters (the modern one) is researching the other set (the old-time-y one.) So when I saw that Jennifer Donnelly, beloved of the blogosphere (that is you) for her Rose books and then Northern Lights, had written a book of this sort, I was…well, I was mildly intrigued. I thought I might get it from the library sometime if I remembered to. Then…
42 CommentsA book I acquired in spite of my firm and as-yet-unbroken book-buying ban. My lovely grandmother (my mum’s mum) sent it to me, all shiny and beautiful and hardback, along with an equally shiny and beautiful and hardback book about Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots not liking each other (I am excited about this as it has been quite some time since I read anything about the Tudors). My grandmother loves to read. She inherited booklust from her father, my great-grandfather, who loved Rafael Sabatini and who gave a copy of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to my grandmother…
5 CommentsA Midnight Riot, Ben Aaronovitch The End of Everything, Megan Abbott Reading Angel: The TV Spin-Off with a Soul, ed. Stacey Abbott The Husbands and Wives Club, Laurie J. Abraham American Furies, Sasha Abramsky The Lambs of London, Peter Ackroyd Thames: Sacred River, Peter Ackroyd The Girl in a Swing, Richard Adams The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison Americanah, Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus, Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie Runaways, Brian Vaughn and Adrian Adolpha The Great Night, Chris Adrian River of Darkness, Rennie Airth Little Women, Louisa May Alcott The War That Killed Achilles,…
3 CommentsOne The Friend Who Got Away, ed. Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell – essays about friend breakups Girls Only, Alex Witchel – an amusing memoir about being one of four girls in a family Briar Rose, Robert Coover – variations and variations on the Sleeping Beauty story, from the prince and the princess The Trinity Six, Charles Cumming – about an imaginary sixth member of the Cambridge Spies ruh-roh What Are You Looking At, Will Gompertz – a history of modern art that’s very good and anecdotey Above Suspicion, Helen MacInnes – an Oxford academic and his delightful wife are…
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