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It's New Year's Eve, and I'm nursing a small cold--but that's okay, because I was already planning on doing my usual caviar, champagne and DVDs New Year's Eve celebration at home. (But I think I'll have mimosas, for added vitamin C!)

Yesterday I went with C. to LACMA to see two fantastic exhibitions: William Eggleston (one of my favorite photographers) and Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915. So glad I managed to make it to those shows and the Eva Hesse show at the Hammer this week.

I'm not going to do a big 2010 wrap-up, but...

My Favorite Books of 2010
Patti Smith--Just Kids
Mira Grant--Feed
Elizabeth Hand--Illyria

My Favorite Older Books Read for the First Time in 2010
Henry James--The Portrait of a Lady
Edith Wharton--House of Mirth

Happy New Year, everyone!

Current Mood: optimistic

It's a beautiful autumn afternoon, cool and cloudy. I just treated myself to the Irving Penn Small Trades exhibition. Amazing photographs--many of them show such a vanished world.

Seeing the exhibit reminded me of the importance for input to go along with all the output, when one is busy with noveling. The 1950s London photos made me long to write about Alfred, pre-Eleanor Bell, which I probably will do (at least a short story) after I finish this draft of the Jo book. I hope to finish chapter 19 this weekend, now that it's finally starting to behave...