This weekend I’m packing up my sweaters and reading piles of good books. (As the Summer Reading Guide deadline approaches, I furiously read soon-to-be-new releases hunting for last-minute gems!) I hope you have something to look forward to this weekend.
My favorite finds from around the web:
- I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget. Insightful piece on a problem we all need to grapple with.
- I’m currently spraying down sweaters with this favorite product to put them into storage for the season.
- How Do You Write an Anthony Bourdain Book Without Anthony Bourdain? Great yet sad behind-the-scenes look into a book I really enjoyed.
- Doesn’t this beautiful dress just scream “spring?”
- How Science Journalist Ed Yong Helps Readers Make Sense of the World. I have so appreciated Yong’s reporting on COVID-19 for The Atlantic this past year.
- After we had Unorthodox producer Sara Aeder on WSIRN episode 276, I was delighted to appear on Unorthodox myself!
- 42 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape This Spring. Happy that I’ve already read three of these!
- I gave my daughters the Allure Beauty Box as a gift but keep borrowing the products myself. High-quality skincare at a great value; right now get two full-size products when you sign up instead of the usual one.
- Does Birth Order Really Determine Personality? Here’s What the Research Says. “Of course, all the circumstances in which a child comes into the world—whether they’re born male or female, in war or peace, into relative poverty or exorbitant wealth—end up making a person who they are. But the birth-order effect seems to particularly enthuse and preoccupy us.” (You do know I wrote a book on personality, right?)
- 7 Bookstagrammers On How to Create a Cozy Reading Nook. Some book nook inspiration.
Don’t miss these posts:
- Expand your literary horizons with these 20 books in translation. Why read books in translation? My friend put it well when she quipped, “I’m stuck in my head, I read to escape my own head, and my head happens to be an American head.”
- 10 work from home tips to help you stay present and productive. Over the years, I’ve developed steady routines and habits to become good at working from home. I hope my tips will help you find some peace, productivity, and calm in your own work life.
Upcoming Events:
- April 20, 1 pm ET: Bird By Bird flight discussion: Time for our Book Club discussion of flight pick Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott! This is an MMD Book Club event. (Discussions are available as replays for members who cannot attend live.)
- April 28, 7 pm ET: Live chat with author Lily King: Time for our Book Club discussion of Writers & Lovers with author Lily King! This is an MMD Book Club event. (Events are available as replays for members who cannot attend live.)
You can find more upcoming events here.
Have a great weekend!
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That article, “I Called Off My Wedding”, is fascinating. Like ‘The Social Dilemma’ (on Netflix) it makes you consider seriously the dark-side of tech. It seems more and more people are questioning technology…I wonder what will become of it all? Worth thinking about it for sure!
The link for “this beautiful dress” does not go anywhere.
I’d love to see it, as I’m looking for a beautiful dress.
It worked for me. Try again?
It worked for me, too but it is Boden USA if it does not work for others. Their dresses are very pretty this Spring! I totally bought one with Toucans on it. *eye roll at myself*
One of the ways I’m looking to enhance my reading life this year is to create my own book nook. I really enjoyed the spaces designed by some of my bookstagram favorites. And that book nook chair is gorgeous!
That sweater spray from The Laundress looks EXACTLY the type of product I’ve been looking for–Thank you, Anne, for bringing it to my attention! I wish, however, I could put my sweaters away for the season, darn it, as it’s currently 41 degrees here in PA. Guess I’ll get my spring this weekend from my two current reads–The Enchanted April and The Wind in the Willows.
Loved the Bookstagrammers’ book nooks!! And found some new folks to follow!! 🙂
In the packing up my sweaters category, so glad I didn’t give into that impulse week before last when we had 80 degree weather in Denver. Overnight last night we got 6 inches of snow. Hello April in the Rockies.
If you have not yet read While Paris Slept, released this February, you should. Easily at the top of my favorite list of WWII novels.
I actually called off 2 weddings. One in 1992 and the other in 1994 (rebounded from the previous relationship). I am happily married now for 22 years and haven’t ever looked back, but I can’t imagine doing so now in the age of social media. I received a letter from a family member of the first relationship that was not very kind. I can’t imagine if they had taken those words to social media and blasted them to everyone we knew and didn’t know. I’ve seen social media ruin kids at school and leave them devastated for months….or longer. Plus I can’t imagine all the emails the writer talked about receiving and the phone scroll. In fact, that just came up in a conversation with a friend whose husband has been having an affair and she just found out. Her iPhone keeps sharing “memory” photos and he is often in them and it’s the last thing she wants to see or be reminded of. A feature that may bring joy to one person, may torture another endlessly. Such a great article. Thanks for sharing!
Anne,
I love your site and enjoy your posts. I confess I’m a slacker where reading is concerned compared to you and many of your avid readers. Still, I enjoy your lists and links. Thank you for always being interesting and informative.
xo,
Karen