#flèche

[waterrywaterryy]

Aziel Fell, a gifted star that doesn't quite grasp the idea of being in the spotlight yet. (Single picture version)

[kitcatbookmad]

Give me sunshine, a library book, a flat white in the corner of my favourite cafe

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

L'ancêtre de l'arbalète

[8kilometers]

flèche

[words-and-coffee]

To love a city and to not have it love you back is its own form of torture

Mary Jean Chan, Flèche - A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far

[jeanfrancoisrey]

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[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• Bambou: Spring/Summer 1956, Flèche collection.

Designer: Christian Dior; Maker: Atelier tailleur by Roger; Textile by: Staron; printed by Brunet-Lecomte

Material: Silk

[elenichr]

Year of Lists

February Books

Penance by Eliza Clark * 3/5 - would recommend for anyone who's into true crime: podcasting, documentaries, reporting. It's an interesting study of how we approach tragedies, with all the expected questions of what is truth, who has a right to tell a story, is there a respectful way of writing about tragedy, etc. It feels like a book born out of the question "what would In Cold Blood be if it was written today"? It's more like an exercise or a project than a gripping story. For those willing, there is a lot to unpack.

Beloved by Toni Morrison * 5/5 - Toni Morrison was an exceptional writer. From Zadie Smith's introduction to this edition: "All readers and writers are indebted to her for the space she created". Beloved is one of those books that deserves all the praise and hype it got, if not even more. I can't even begin to explore the nuances of the narrative, language, characterisation. I will just say that it reads urgent, dreamlike, true, affecting. And, from the foreword by Morrison: "To render enslavement as a personal experience, language must get out of the way".

"I husband that moment on the pier, the deceptive river, the instant awareness of possibility, the loud heart kicking, the solitude, the danger. And the girl with the nice hat. Then the focus."

Flèche by Mary Jean Chan * 5/5 - it's often I rate poetry collections a 5*, but it's rare it's so clear a 5*. It's just superb.

The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara * 3/5 - Yanagihara's books could all be studied. The craft is always incredible as is the depth of the storytelling. I just wasn't crazy about this one, but, she writes, I read.

Open Throat by Henry Hoke (ToB Read) * 5/5 - a moving, hungry, feverish dream of a book