I know fall is here when the catalogs with reds and browns start arriving and my new Lilly planner arrives. I am so glad that Lilly Pulitzer monograms them in house now. Last year I bought a few stick-on monograms on Etsy and they made do but I was relieved when I could get it all done in one quick trip to the Madison Ave. store. Well fall is here and I am a happy happy girl!
I spent the summer traveling around New England. I visited friends, travelled with friends, and hung with family. My car basically looked like this every weekend, and yes after spending a few days cleaning canoes my poor Hunters looked like this, well I wanted a new pair anyway!
Crazy days turned into crazy weeks into a very crazy month of August. but now I am back and settling into my apartment in NYC, with beautiful hard wood floors I might add. Tonight was the first night in weeks that I have been able to breath deeply and relax enough to go on the computer. I am incredibly thankful to my supportive parents and Blessed to have such an amazing family standing behind me. I am almost excited to start this year and if I can’t get excited about school I will at least get excited about the new J Crew package that will be arriving in about 3 days, yayy 30 percent off!
Cheers
M
I love the artists of the 1920’s and knew I had to read Everyone Was So Young after a review in The Boston Globe. Be warned this is not a fast read. Now during the summer I don’t read in big blocks of time, I get a few minutes between groups at camp and such. (I honestly get more time when I am riding the subway everyday.) However, this book has taken me forever to get through. AND I’m still not done!
Don’t let the length or my little rant scare you, this is an awesome read! It gives you an honest insight into the lives of the Murphy’s, Hemingway’s, and Fitzgerald’s. The stories are not always beautiful and polished, but they are true. Most of it is based off of letter correspondence and personal journals. But lucky for me and you, it doesn’t read like the academic or textbooks that haunt our experience of non-fiction.
Don’t be discouraged if it takes you a while to read, I had to put it down, read a little fiction, then picked it back up and loved it again.
Author: Amanda Vail
Days to read: MONTHS
I recently read a blogpost raving about the book Brooklyn Girls. I had been reading a non-fiction book all summer and needed a little break. I figured living in NYC as a young twenty-something this book would be great and relatable.
To enjoy this Brooklyn Girls you need to make it past the first chapter. The writing is not very good and is written with far too much dialogue. I almost stopped reading, but it’s summer so I don’t have much else to do then trudge through a crappy book.
Well in the end it’s not so crappy, I got really into it and the story. I wish it wasn’t written so informally, once you can get past the fact that a fifth grader could easily read it you will enjoy yourself.
Author: Gemma Burgess
Days it took me to read: 4
A Nor’Easterner 