Some lovely things in heavy rotation right now…

Victoria’s  Secret wrap sweater

Fools Paradise, by Anita Konnka, the main character is “Obsessed with omens, astrology, dreams, fortune-tellers, and other objects of the paranormal, …both funny and morose”

Naoko, by Keigo Higashino, “After a terrible accident, Naoko switches bodies with her daughter who dies after the tragic event “  -I am not very far into this yet, but it’s intriguing, and I am interested to her how this will affect her relationship with her father/husband!

The dreamy elegance of Jia Juan Li’s oil paintings

via The Marigold Gallery

Winter haiku from fantasy author Charles de Lint

November 20

Shadow of a crow
upon the snow is as black
as the bird above

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December 21

On a grey solstice
day: crows, thin sunlight, restless
spirits heading home

Chergui, by Serge Lutens : sultry, yet cozy (”exotic” for bookish people who live in their heads)

image via Nathan branch

Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson (this is what the woman who wears Chergui looks like, I am certain!)

Calcutta for Kipling's The Song of the English, via victorianweb