Tiffany & Co.’s Blue Book 2024: Tiffany Céleste Launch Red Carpet Rundown
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The stars came out to model diamonds and then discreetly slip them into
their handbags (ALLEGEDLY) at the Tiffany Céleste launch party. We already
gave M...
May 10, 2008
book note
I just returned from the public library and re-checked out a book I had checked out a few weeks ago. It's Call Me by Your Name by Andre Aciman. I'd read about it at
Band of Thebes and it sounded interesting. I like Proust. Aciman is a Proust scholar. His novel is very Proustian.
(that's a lot of Proust for one post)
Anyway, I read a few chapters before having to return it. My two week allotment was up and I hadn't finished it. It's hard for me to read when reading is kind of my job.
Of course, I skimmed through it and read all of the dirty bits before I dropped it back in the slot.
I'm no fool.
But even the dirty bits are kind of Proustian. That's not a complaint, just a comment.
But I'm giving it a try again.
It's actually beautifully written, but a bit tough going at times, and sad in general.
It's about a young man and the affair he has with an older (24 or so) man, a guest of his parents'. It's set in the Italian Riviera sometime (I like to imagine) in the 80's. I'm not sure why.
Lord knows I can totally relate.
I know I spent many a summer on the Italian Riviera flirting with handsome literary types in their 20s. (In my mind)
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I'm reading this right now too. Sometimes I find it difficult to keep up with who is saying what to whom... the whole thrust of a conversation can change- it makes you pay attention.
With everything seen (in retrospect) through the eyes of a 17-18 year-old in the 80's (I agree completely), the author accurately captures all of the crazy, illogical and disjointed flight of ideas and emotions that surface as a relationship unfolds, is consummated and... well, I'm not far enough yet to know what happens next... but I'm afraid I know too well.
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