The Passionate Reader
Reading has shaped my life for as long as I can remember. As Robert Gottlieb told The Paris Review in 1994, "I was about forty years old when I had an amazing revelation -- it suddenly came to me that not every person in the world assumed, without thinking about it, that reading was the most important thing in life. I hadn't even known that I had thought it, it was so basic to me." "Sleeping With the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War" by Hal Vaughan (Alfred A. Knopf) is a beautifully designed book, with its black print in a classic Chanel font on a white background with black borders. But, unfortunately, that's actually its strong point. I have read many, many books about Coco Chanel, and this is the only one I found boring. While I am not at all inclined to take collaboration lightly, I feel that simply too much is made of relatively little evidence of Chanel's wartime activities on behalf of the Germans. Most of the information could have been contained in a magazine article. What she did was, for the most part, laughably inept -- as Operation Modellhut certainly was. Her greatest transgression could be summed up by her famous response to those who questioned her affair with Baron von Dincklage, "When a woman of my age has the chance of a lover, she does not ask to see his passport." By contrast, Sebastian Haffner's "Defying Hitler: A Memoir" (Picador) is riveting. Haffner (whose real name was Raimund Pretzel) was an ordinary German who was neither Jewish nor a Socialist, but who simply couldn't tolerate the compromises asked of him under the Nazi regime. While he was preparing to become a lawyer or a judge, he had to go on a kind of retreat with other students, during which they engaged in lots of marching exercises. Nobody raised the issue of how strange it was that men who hoped to join the judiciary were being made to take part in this kind of military drill.Martha Stewart Font - News
"Sleeping With the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War" by Hal Vaughan (Alfred A. Knopf) is a beautifully designed book, with its black print in a classic Chanel font on a white background with black borders. But, unfortunately, that's actually its strong
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It is my belief that when L-A and I are 88 years old, sitting next to each other and drinking boxed wine at the nursing home, she will turn to me and quietly say, “You know, you were right about that Miley Cyrus song. Shit was a motherfucking classic.” Trust me. It will happen. It might be the dementia, but it will happen.
I’m not sure what is going to go down at this fashion show, but anything that benefits my beloved Dress for Success Halifax (and is happening in the ‘burbs!) is gold to me.
In addition to this week’s Favourite Event. I obviously have a new Favourite Crappy Video. What? You thought Miley was it? No.
I mean, really. It’s just the cat’s pajamas. I want to go driving to this song (if I owned a car). Or hang out with lemonade and saddle shoes and giant headphones. I want to put it in the soundtrack of a movie. I’ll probably tire of it eventually, but right now, I want to listen to it again.
4. Those wing tips Ally wants.
Obvs. I need a pair of those after I get me some saddle shoes.
Can’t help with the font selection, as they all look cute, but I can help with the tattoo thing! I got tatted twice in Halifax and both times I just showed up and got it done. These were sketchbag-ish places, however. I know that fancier places take appointments, though.
If there’s still that place on Quinpool, she’s supposed to be good. And I think takes appointments. Watch episodes of LA Ink to see how it’s done! Where are you having it put on?
I’m going for a little one on my left wrist. Can’t do Quinpool though – the goal is to try something new within the Downtown Business Commission area. And as I’ve never had a tattoo (judging by my panic attack, this is probably obvious), it’s probably the one thing I have never done in Downtown Halifax.
I have word tattoos on both my wrists, first one only took about 15 minutes for a whole word, the second longer (but the place I got that done wasn’t as nice). When I was shopping around for my second tattoo I stopped at Newcombe’s (Newcomb’s?) Ink just off Barrington – they were super nice, really clean/stylish place. You could check them out.