Read blog
Reading has many benefits
According to Andrew Huberman (yes…), reading in a "linear" fashion, meaning progressing through information from start to finish without jumping around, is considered one of the most effective ways to learn and retain information, as it allows for a focused and structured absorption of concepts, particularly when initially encountering new material.
It also makes you/me/us happy, relaxed and smarter, obviously. This is proven. Do your own research if you don’t believe me! (But you’ll have to read that too!)
Books I read and loved this year! In no particular order.
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff. I wrote about it here.
Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata. So weird. But the weirdness was bite-sized and in Japanese class-A packaging.
Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe. Just fabulous. I consider Margo a lifelong friend now. She lives and inspires.
Margo felt so raw and leaking, so mortal, and yet stronger than shed ever been. The option to throw yourself on the ground and have a good cry was gone. You had to keep going, past the rosebushes and garden gnomes in the dark, the baby asleep on your chest, wondering when it would be safe to go home.
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff. OK! You wanna dance? Groff will show you how to dance. This book is LIGHTNING. In a simple plot summary, a pinhole view of a couple over time. For me, a mess of ego and beauty and one kind of true love.
Bringing up Bébé by Pamela Druckerman. The only parenting book I read that spent equal time discussing the success of child as success of the mother. I wish I was raising Tulip in Paris. Maybe I still might!
For American women, the role of mom is very segmented, very absolute,” Sharon says. “When they wear the mom ‘hat,’ they wear the mom clothes. When they’re sexy, they’re totally sexy. And the kids can only see the ‘mom’ part.
In france, (and apparently in Belgium, too) the “mom and “woman” roles ideally are fused. At any given time, you can see both.Green Dot by Madeleine Gray. I wrote about it here. Lead character reminds me a lot of Margo (#3).
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, edited by Mason Currey. Poets, philosophers, writers, composers, painters, choreographers, playwrights, filmmakers, sculptors and scientists on how they create and do a day. This is so fun and inspiring.
Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously by Osho.
All meditative techniques are a help to destroy the false. They don’t give you the real— the real cannot be given. That which can be given cannot be real. The real you have got already, just the false has to be taken away.
Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly, slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence—which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.The Last Samurai by Helen Dewitt. Currently reading. Fantastic. Timeless.
I’m Sorry I’m Late I Didn’t Want to Come by Jessica Pan. Absolutely “unputdownable” and feel good.
What are your favorites from this year? Please share with me, my nightstand-stack is dwindling!
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