Hello dear Off-Topic readers, I know in the past I’ve promised randomness and then done that thing where I get attached to the first item on the agenda and it becomes the whole newsletter, but this time, I’m aiming for the absolute full variety. Let’s see how I get on.
I feel a lot better about my own tsundoku since someone on Twitter said to not think of unread books as a to-do list but as a wine cellar. One book which did stay unread for too long was Ducks, Newburyport. And then I finally read it, and have to recommend you add it to your doorstop pile. It's so very good, though so very massive.
Well, you've walked right into this one, Eggs Florentine*: it is non-fiction by a woman so I will once again recommend 'Braiding Sweetgrass' by Robin Wall Kimmerer! I've also just got Suleika Jaouad's 'Between Two Kingdoms' which fits the bill as well, but let me ask you as you seem likely to be an expert - have paperback books become slightly less... nice, somehow, at the same time as becoming shockingly expensive? This one's Penguin so I got a few older (1990s/2000s) Penguin paperbacks off the shelf for comparison and can't help feeling the quality has dropped a bit, despite the embossed font on the cover. (Also this is one where the US and UK covers are COMPLETELY different and make it seem like a totally different kind of book; all the online publicity I've seen has used the US version so I feel like I have the wrong book, and was only stopped from actually getting one from America by the even more shocking price of books over there.) But so far the words are all good. Have you dropped a glass yet? x
*Footnote! Sorry - with your love of eggs and a previous footnote about lengthening your name, this seems too obvious a nickname to pass up.
Two bookmarks added: Bespoke and 5 Bedrooms. Have you read The Coat Route: Craft, Luxury and Obsession On The Trail of a $50,000 Coat by Meg Lukens Noonan? That's another deep diver on a particular topic. It's sitting in my to-be-read wine cellar right now. As for your EPP: pristine, my highest compliment.
Now I have a word for those weird coincidences that happen practically every week when I get your newsletter! Supergas, Dualits, cashmere jumpers, Love Island, gluten free pasta, the list is long, but thanks again for an excellent episode. Talking of which to fill the void have you seen Bump, about a teenage pregnancy or The Teacher, about an affair between a teacher and her student? Both compelling.
Love love love your EPP, looks amazingly beautiful, can’t wait to see it finished. Think we need a special word for all the quilty projects we want to make but they seem too epic to start. Any ideas?
I feel a lot better about my own tsundoku since someone on Twitter said to not think of unread books as a to-do list but as a wine cellar. One book which did stay unread for too long was Ducks, Newburyport. And then I finally read it, and have to recommend you add it to your doorstop pile. It's so very good, though so very massive.
Well, you've walked right into this one, Eggs Florentine*: it is non-fiction by a woman so I will once again recommend 'Braiding Sweetgrass' by Robin Wall Kimmerer! I've also just got Suleika Jaouad's 'Between Two Kingdoms' which fits the bill as well, but let me ask you as you seem likely to be an expert - have paperback books become slightly less... nice, somehow, at the same time as becoming shockingly expensive? This one's Penguin so I got a few older (1990s/2000s) Penguin paperbacks off the shelf for comparison and can't help feeling the quality has dropped a bit, despite the embossed font on the cover. (Also this is one where the US and UK covers are COMPLETELY different and make it seem like a totally different kind of book; all the online publicity I've seen has used the US version so I feel like I have the wrong book, and was only stopped from actually getting one from America by the even more shocking price of books over there.) But so far the words are all good. Have you dropped a glass yet? x
*Footnote! Sorry - with your love of eggs and a previous footnote about lengthening your name, this seems too obvious a nickname to pass up.
Thanks for a great read - still chuckling about blowing up the airbed with a hairdryer! Beautiful EPP and that bookmark is just adorable. xx
Two bookmarks added: Bespoke and 5 Bedrooms. Have you read The Coat Route: Craft, Luxury and Obsession On The Trail of a $50,000 Coat by Meg Lukens Noonan? That's another deep diver on a particular topic. It's sitting in my to-be-read wine cellar right now. As for your EPP: pristine, my highest compliment.
Now I have a word for those weird coincidences that happen practically every week when I get your newsletter! Supergas, Dualits, cashmere jumpers, Love Island, gluten free pasta, the list is long, but thanks again for an excellent episode. Talking of which to fill the void have you seen Bump, about a teenage pregnancy or The Teacher, about an affair between a teacher and her student? Both compelling.
Love love love your EPP, looks amazingly beautiful, can’t wait to see it finished. Think we need a special word for all the quilty projects we want to make but they seem too epic to start. Any ideas?