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Ladies of the Canyons flashback

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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  What a blast from the past.  Spoiler alert, Daisy Jones and I am the same age, and living the 1970’s LA life whilst in your twenties was some good times.  The music was all around, in an LA-centric way I have not seen since.  (Still here.)  The clubs were rocking, but I did not have that kind of money, although the boyfriend and I managed to swing tickets once for the Universal Amphitheater and Linda Ronstadt in all her boy scout uniform glory (damn, […]

Australian spookiness. Just add panpipes and a didgeridoo.

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

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  In 1975, I saw an Australian movie, Picnic at Hanging Rock, one of the most perfect and perfectly weird films I have ever seen.  The impact of this film still resonates with me, and when I was looking for another book at Powells, and noticed this, I HAD to have it.  I had no idea the film was based on a book, and yet here we are.  And it is every bit as freakily good as the movie as.   It begins as a […]

Damn, son. Be sure to hang on to that candelabra, though.

Malicroix by Henri Bosco

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What a wild ride.  Gothic mysticism is the best way to describe it, I guess.  Although I was unfamiliar with the French writer, he had been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times, so there’s that. The book opens in a straightforward way with a pleasant young man being summoned to the estate of his recently deceased great-uncle.  He is dropped off by carriage in a desolate expanse of fields and wetlands where he is met by a taciturn shepherd sent to escort […]

Well, that’s just your opinion, man.

The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin

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There is no doubt at all that John Ruskin was an odd bird indeed.  But good Lord, the man had Opinions.   In 1848, Ruskin toured northern France with his bride (poor girl), and I assume, earlier Italy.  It was here that he fell in love with (certain examples) of Gothic architecture.  For Ruskin, architecture was the first of the arts, because it was not created by a person, but rather by a culture (his primary examples being cathedrals that took, in some cases, hundreds […]

There’s having a stiff upper lip, and keeping calm and carrying on, and then there’s. . . this. One of the best True Life Adventure Tales ever.

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

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Sir Edward Shackleton sets off in 1914 on a quest to cross the continent of Antarctica.  Half of his group will land on one side and plant supply catches half way across.  He and his men will land on the other side, and using these supplies, will cross the continent.  Except, no.   The other side (presumably) accomplished their task.  But he and his 28 men never got to Antarctica itself.  Instead, less than two weeks later, their ship, the Endurance, was trapped in ice […]



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