september round up
I think all I have to say about the last month is my birthday was lovely and we got a PUPPY. So my brain is bursting with dog associated rubbish; poos, wees, chewing, crates, dog food, dog toys (everywhere). My house with no rugs, no lie ins and no going anywhere a puppy can’t go. He is very very adorable (Goldie, a mini wire haired Dachsund) and very hard work.
What I Read
Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Book Your Dog Wishes You Would Read by Louise Glazebrook (lol)
Reward System by Jem Calder
Landlines by Raynor Winn
Raynor Winn has written a new book. I loved The Salt Path with my whole soul and liked her second one a lot but not as much. This one is more a return to form amongst the mountains and lochs of Scotland and then South, the entire length of the country back to Cornwall. I am not a romance reader and find a lot of romantic culture nonsensical, boring and a bit pukey but the way she writes about Moth, I get it. What a great love and inspiring partnership and what a way to live, a connection to the earth we walk on and live because of, history, each other, our mortality and ourselves. Chef’s kiss.
MONTHLY FAVOURITES
Watched… Blonde. At university I did an entire module on Marilyn Monroe. A whole term was devoted to her. We studied the texts written about her from feminist perspectives and wrote our own detailing how Hollywood and the various men in her life let her down. This film has been highly criticised, it isn’t shiny it’s razor sharp and whether it’s historically accurate we will never know. It’s a biopic based on the Joyce Carol Oates book of her life, which I read many moons ago. An epic nearly three hours of Ana de Armas (produced by Brad Pitt?!). It’s worth watching but brace yourself for the horrors of studio life in Hollywood before the Me Too movement.
Listened… Podcast wise: Family Secrets is back. Music wise: My work from home playlist is here.
Newsletter… Sophie Heawood’s sense of humour is the best. Sometimes I feel weighted down by the transitions this world seems to be going through, a period of unrest, disruption and change, but she sees it all with a joy I think people have forgotten. Check out The Sophist.
Turned up for… Myself and my friend Jess went to London to see Dope Lemon. I find it hard to write about music but I bloody love that band, their sound and their aesthetic. The graphics projected on the wall behind them were psychedelic wonders with blinking eyes and moving fox and wolf heads with swirling chakras. Hard to put into words, like a drip of gold for the soul.
