Happy weekend – and, if you’re in the UK, happy sunshine! Well, there may well be sunshine elsewhere too, but it has been a long time coming here. I never realise what a difference it makes until the grey skies disappear for a bit, and blossom starts showing itself. Yes, hay fever too, but one can’t have everything.
I’m spending this Saturday at my college reunion – I was still an undergraduate (just) when I started this blog in 2007, and it’s odd and pleasing to think that it’s still going despite all the other changes in my life. Though rather fewer changes than many of my fellow Gaudy-goers will have experienced. Me? I live half an hour down the road.
Hope you have lots of lovely plans this weekend – or, equally lovely, no plans. Here is a book, a blog post, and a link to take you into your weekend.
1.) The book – I saw Hourglass: Memory, Time, Marriage by Dani Shapiro mentioned on Christina’s Instagram, and immediately added it to my wishlist. Some blurb: “The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love.”
2.) The blog link – Scott at Furrowed Middlebrow has the rare joy of adding a previously-unpublished novel to the roster of the wonderful Furrowed Middlebrow series from Dean Street Press! I won’t steal his thunder, but will send you to his blog post to find out what it is. (I’m hoping if I butter him up, he will read and review some of the British Library Women Writers titles, because I am LONGING to know what he thinks of them. Especially Sally on the Rocks.)
3.) The link – Bored Panda does a ‘weird buildings’ list every couple of weeks, and it’s always the same, but it is also always great. If you haven’t explored one yet, here you go. Enjoy a cat-shaped kindergarten, for starters.
Three really interesting links Simon. I’d not seen the bored panda list before, I’ve been trying to see past the optical illusion on the first building to the walls and can’t quite manage it! Hope you have a lovely reunion.
Yes, I stared at it for a while, and couldn’t work out how it worked!
OK, I may just be going down a Bored Panda wormhole for the next few hours…!
Hard to resist :D
I’ve been to #37, the basket building in Ohio! It was the headquarters of a basket company that has since gone out of business. There were plans to convert it to a hotel but I don’t think it ever happened. It’s actually very nice inside and fun fact, the giant handles have special warming units so that in the winter, ice doesn’t form and crash through the skylights in the ceiling.
Oh wow! That’s so cool.
Hope you’re having a lovely reunion! Loving the buildings link!
Aren’t they fun?!