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Mel Campbell
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August 15
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This week I went on a road trip with my parents to Barwon Park Mansion, Winchelsea, to see Night Life, a National Trust exhibition of evening wear from the 1920s and 1930s. By pure chance, we managed to time our arrival just as a guided tour by exhibition curator Elizabeth Anya-Petrivna was beginning. This was an awesome way to navigate the exhibition. Anya-Petrivna offered lots of detail about...
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The Hot Guy
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2017
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Out of Shape: Debunking Myths about Fashion and Fit
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2012
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Kill Your Darlings, July 2010
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2010
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| There was a dreamlike, almost magic-realist tone to this that worked in counterpoint with its very detached, matter-of-fact tone. I couldn’t get a bead on when exactly it was set, and the contrivance that the Underground Railroad was an actual subway ...more | |
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| This was a fun, breezy book that’s perfect for reading on holiday, which is when I read it. Took me a while to get into the characters – I found them very obnoxious at first and I worried that Semple was going to get stuck in the Zany Antics and Sass ...more | |
"2.5? Maybe? It wasn’t dreadful & I wanted to like this given all the fanfare around it. It’s an okay read, but didn’t live up to the hype. Maybe I’m not at the right stage of my life to appreciate the ‘romantic’ dynamic (which actually seemed..."
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