IT’S A DAY of rest, and you may be in the mood for a quiet corner and a comfy chair.
We’ve hand-picked the week’s best reads for you to savour.
1. ’She’s 98. He’s 95. They met at the gym’
It’s been a tough week. So let’s enjoy this love story, where two nonagenarians meet at the gym, fall in love, and get married. <3
(New York Times, approx 13 mins reading time)
On their first date, he drove her to a restaurant in Middletown called Something Sweet. “He was a perfect gentleman,” she said, and he added, “There was something about her that made me want to keep on talking.” In a heartbeat, they became an item, talking about dreams and goals and sharing a life together.
2. An oral history of Keeping Up With The Kardashians
Don’t lie: you know you want to read it (and it’s fascinating).
(Hollywood Reporter, approx 26 mins reading time)
Seacrest: I remember Kris saying, “In order for this to work, yes, there’s a glitz and glamour, but there’s got to be honesty and vulnerability. We need to make a pact that the show won’t just be pretty pictures. As time goes by, you see some of the most vulnerable moments. There was a deliberate intent to be vulnerable and capture that from the beginning. Kris: I sat everyone down and said, “If we’re going to do this, we have to be all in. We have to really be who we are.”
Meet the current editors of Breitbart news – including a 31-year-old craft beer enthusiast – who disagree that the site is the platform of the so-called ‘alt-right’.
(New York Times, approx 45 mins reading time)
Whether you trusted Daily Kos or The Daily Caller, whatever you thought about Russian hacking, however you placed yourself in relation to the dueling Manichaean orthodoxies of contemporary politics, for a few minutes everybody seemed to agree that just six months after tipping a presidential election, Breitbart was in retreat.
4. The fallout from sportswriting’s filthiest f***-up
This is the story of how a very dirty and offensive paragraph ended up in a reporter’s article about a small sports team. But it’s also about more than that.
(Deadpsin, approx 26 mins reading time)
Writes DeLeonibus in the twelfth paragraph: “Dixon sucks donkey dicks and doesn’t wipe the shit off before practice. We like to keep him at the sweeper position so his sperm breath will stop people from penetrating to the goal. Speaking of penetrating, he prefers tall, red-headed guys. Told me to tell Kris he said ‘hello.’” Wait. What? What?
5. What to know more about Russia?
Well, here’s your guide, thanks to CNN. It’s interactive, with images and video included.
(CNN, approx 30 mins reading time)
With sky-high approval figures and an extensive period in power, some have argued that Putin could be the most powerful man in the world.
6. Welcome to Silent Book Club
If you’ve ever struggled to find time to read, then this idea could be for you – a silent book club, where people meet up to read.
(Lit Hub, approx 6 mins reading time)
At my local Palm Springs gathering, the table is set for 17 people, and I’m the last to arrive. The server collects our orders. While we wait for food and drinks, everyone chatters for a bit about what we’re reading, the books topping our to-be-read lists, our favorite authors. Then it’s reading time. I pull out Woman No. 17 by Edan Lepucki, and the real world slinks away.
…AND A CLASSIC FROM THE ARCHIVES…
There’s a total eclipse on Monday, so no better time to read this magnificent piece of literary nonfiction by Annie Dillard. It’s called, well, ‘Total Eclipse’.
(The Atlantic, approx 29 mins reading time)
It had been like dying, that sliding down the mountain pass. It had been like the death of someone, irrational, that sliding down the mountain pass and into the region of dread. It was like slipping into fever, or falling down that hole in sleep from which you wake yourself whimpering. We had crossed the mountains that day, and now we were in a strange place—a hotel in central Washington, in a town near Yakima. The eclipse we had traveled here to see would occur early in the next morning.
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