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Quarantine Reading: One Book a Day (Week 7) • Soft Sensibilities
Still at home, reading one book a day for as long as this quarantine lasts. If it isn’t clear by now, I’m choosing my daily reading by color and mood (which appears as two sets of criteria, but so happens to be one and the same in my book). My little library is organized by category, then arranged by shade: it’s easy on the eyes, even easier to navigate. And somehow, this system always works out beautifully—proving there is substance to color theory. DAY 44: DEACON KING KONG I’m embarrassed to admit that James McBride, the award-winning, best-selling author, was not on my radar until I saw Deacon King Kong on SJP’s Instagram feed. The novel reads just as if you were watching some television epic—shot like Motherless Brooklyn, starring the most charming cast of characters. It’s gripping, timely, and full of heart. DAY 45: WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? I’m no art connoisseur, just a civilian who pored over art books as a kid and as an adult plans most of her trips anywhere around the local art museums. How the Art World views Will Gompertz’s What Are You Looking At? is unknown to me—but as an interested bystander (proud…
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