Today’s post marks the first in a new series here on inanutshell! Over the next few months, you can expect a sneak peak into what we’re doing…right now. We plan to give you a peak into our lives by filling you in on our favourite things du jour, highlighting everything from what we’re reading, listening to, wearing, eating and more. We hope this series will help to paint a better picture of all five nuts, sharing things we like and showing off our similarities and differences!
Today’s installment focuses on what we’re reading! With back-to-school season upon us, it only makes sense to let you know what we’re burrying our noses in, since none of us are picking up textbooks this year.
Jess is currently picking away at the stories and essays in the collection entitled, The Most of Nora Ephron. She was given the collection almost a year ago from some very dear friends who know of her affinity for the late, great Ms. Ephron and her ability to tell a story. While maybe most well known for screenplays like When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle, Nora Ephron was actually so much more than that; she was a feminist, a hard-headed journalist, a playwright and to Jess, a dependably lit beacon of romantic, witty storytelling genius. Above you’ll find one of the countless, brilliant quotes from Ephron. As Jess explains, “that’s writing, folks”.
Kate is currently reading Pour Your Heart Into It – a light, but fascinating “dare to dream big” tale about a young Howard Schultz (now CEO and chairman of Starbucks) as he discovers the power and passion of coffee. Kate loves this book because it’s easy to pick up and leaf through a few pages at a time, when you have time to kill.
Catherine, Kate and I are all in the same book club, which means we’ve all made our way through Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar this month. While Catherine continues her way through it, she can’t help but be intrigued by the passages other readers have underlined, since she borrowed it from the Carleton University Library (what a throwback!). Her favourite passage – a metaphor for life using a fig tree – is highlighted above.
As we saw from Kaylee’s last post, she was bringing Gillian Flynn’s Dark Places with her to read in Europe. Having read this novel myself, I know that Kaylee is in for a gripping, mysterious read that will keep her guessing until the very end… that is, if she has time to read at all between taking in the beautiful sights Ireland has to offer!
As I noted above, I’ve already made my way through The Bell Jar and am now on to a fictionalized biography of Hadley Richardson – Ernest Hemingway’s wife. The Paris Wife has received rave reviews since it’s initial publication in 2011 and has been on my to-read list since I was able to get my hands on a used copy last fall. Set in the tirbulent aftermath of the First World War, the writing and the story are both beautiful and heatwrenching. The author, Paula Mclain, draws the reader into the world of Hadley and Ernest’s whirlwind romance and the volatile elements of their lives that threaten their relationship. Heather writes that, “The Paris Wife is all the more poignant for knowing that, at the end of his life, Hemingway wrote that he would rather have died than fallen in love with anyone but Hadley.” Are you sold yet? Because I am, even though I’m only 90 pages in!
What are you currently reading? Leave us a comment below so we can keep up with your recent book picks!
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