Dear Gossips,
You ready? The long weekend is over. Summer is over. Gossip high season is before us. NY Fashion Week begins tomorrow. TIFF begins on Thursday. The Emmys are less than 3 weeks away. (Should we live-blog the show?) So the blog will be busy. And we had a taste of the seasonal gossip acceleration yesterday with the casting announcement for Fifty Shades Of Grey. More on this later.
Many of you have been writing to request more book recommendations. How many books do you read at once? I usually have two going at the same time. There’s the book you rip through, that doesn’t take very long, and then the book you spend an hour with every night, slowly. Sometimes you just want to make it last longer, to honour the care and the commitment of the author; sometimes it’s because the story is so devastating you have to take your time; sometimes it’s because you’re trying to convince yourself that by the time you’re done, the world might not be as cruel as the one that’s been written; and sometimes the book is like life, and it takes time to process. William Kowalski’s The Hundred Hearts is all of the above. Also, it looks like a Burberry shirt, only much cheaper and will keep a lot longer.
Yours in gossip,
Lainey
