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About Stephanie Perry

Stephanie P. is a writer, editor, and blogger. Her secret shame is dystopian YA fiction. You can find her wherever the books and food are.

Fashionably Read

I've been reading this book on vintage fashion as research for a writing project, and it's dangerous stuff! Starting from the 1900s, it goes chapter by chapter through the decades, discussing not only influential designers, but also historical influences (like wartime fashion), technological advances, and new sewing techniques that created the now-iconic 20th-century silhouettes, from the slinky bias-cut starlet gowns of the 1930s to the bullet-bra sweater girls of the 1950s. It's clear why this book is giving me a temporary fashion obsession (and may or may not have led to the impulse purchase of a pair of retro red suede platform-heel [...]

2016-12-31T17:59:18-07:00April 6th, 2012|

Going Places

I'm about to hit another milestone of Kindle ownership: taking it on its maiden voyage. And I can't wait! I subscribe to a lot of magazines, which tend to pile up when things get busy, so long flights are a glorious chance to sit down with a six-inch-high stack of them and plow my way through one after another, planting them in seat-back pockets as I go like Johnny Appleread. So don't get me wrong, I'll definitely be bringing some magazines, because there's nothing quite like the guilty pleasure of leafing through makeup how-tos and fashion don'ts at 30,000 feet. BUT. [...]

2016-12-31T17:59:18-07:00March 14th, 2012|Tags: , |

Zone One, you’re killing me.

Thanks to the random and unpredictable nature of library holds, there's a feast-or-famine aspect to my stack of to-read books. If a half-dozen of them get dumped into my lap at once — all with the same due date — some difficult choices must be made. Fortunately/unfortunately, Colson Whitehead's Zone One is making the decision easier for me, with his "thinking man's zombie novel" that clearly proves I am not a thinking man. Sample sentence: "The youngest [zombie] wore its hair in a style popularized by a sitcom that took as its subject three roommates of seemingly immiscible temperaments and [...]

2016-12-31T17:59:19-07:00March 8th, 2012|Tags: , , |
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