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Behind the Book Reading from Violet by Design
Thursday, June 12, 7-9 PM
KGB Bar
85 West 4th Street
NYC
Ah, Veronica
So, the fashion editor at the magazine where I'm freelancing for a few weeks handed me this book and told me I should read it. "It's kinda like your book," she said. "But for adults." It's dark and deep and a beautiful read. I stumbled across this character description today and just swooned...
"At night, she sailed out wearing absurd clothes as if they were Givenchy gowns. Once when I complimented her on one of her mismatched earrings, she pointed at the sky and said, 'That earring means, Don't look at my finger; look at the moon.'"
How silly and lovely and brilliant and mad! I adore characters like that, especially fashionable ones. Isn't it fun to find the wild and crazy beautiful people in life?
The book is called Veronica, and it's by Mary Gaitskill. I like it that I have a "Veronica" in Violet on the Runway, too. Fate?
Oh, and I had to tell you about this contest, which is a good one, at a fun blog called Presenting Lenore. (And yes, that mention gets me another entry... hey, I like to win stuff too!)
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Comments (6)
Wow - that sounds like a really great character and a great book. Putting it on my wish list now!
And thanks for promoting my contest, and good luck :)
Posted by Lenore | May 8, 2008 6:04 PM
That is an awesome quote.
I like the color of the cover as well.
Posted by Liviania | May 10, 2008 12:22 AM
Swoon-a-delic. Totally bizarre and yet poignantly clear. Must check it out. XO
Posted by Alexa Young | May 10, 2008 1:38 AM
Just bought the book from Amazon ;]. Thanks! I really hate how I have a stack of books to read and no time :(.
Posted by Noel | May 10, 2008 2:14 AM
ha, i'm entering a different contest too :D
i'm supposed to tell you about this marked-up book thing (it's pretty awesome). basically, you write notes about your book in your book and give it to someone (or you can keep if for yourself if you want, i guess).
pretty awesome, huh?
http://shootingstarsmag.blogspot.com/2008/05/contest-mark-it-up-may.html
Posted by The Book Muncher | May 11, 2008 7:19 PM
Wow this looks great. Another for the TBR pile.
Posted by Kwana | May 12, 2008 4:44 PM