Saturday, March 17, 2012

COLETTE: 'GIGI' AND 'THE CAT'

These two short novellas speak to the politics of love. Gigi is a young girl being educated in the skills of the Courtesan, about to enter a world where a woman's chief weapon is her body. However with the bored and very rich Gaston Lachaille, Gigi wants nothing of this 'education'. The Cat is about a love triangle between a man, his fiancee and his beloved Russian Blue cat.

Paperback, 160 pages
by Colette
Translated from the French by Roger Senhouse
Published by Vintage Classics, New Edition 2001
Gigi first published in 1944
La Chatte first published in 1933

Thursday, March 8, 2012

FOOD: JAMIE'S GREAT BRITAIN



Talk about comfort food; I'm at the lay in bed reading stage with this tombe. It's truly a love song celebration to the foods and ways of British gastronomy. You can feel Jamie's enthusiasm spring from each page.

Hardcover, 408 pages
By Jamie Oliver
Publisher, Michael Joseph, an imprint from Penguin
(which shows in the suffering harsh reprint of the images)
Pictured left: Oliver at Hamburg book publication