A Literary Birthday

I suppose I'm not quite as complex as I try to appear. My main interests are writing and fashion (shock!) and apparently everyone knows it. So three of my birthday presents were books. Exactly my favorite gift to get.

My lovely roommate gave me The New Yorker humor writing anthology, my brother got me The Sartorialist book, and one of my besties got me The World in Vogue.

The World in Vogue is this amaazzing collection of photographs, including one of my favorite shots ever printed in Vogue-- one of Keira Knightley feeding a baby elephant draped in Louis Vuitton. Wonderful.

The Sartorialist has all the pictures featured from Scott Schuman's blog, but he does some commentary for a few of the photos. My favorite quote:

"Let's be honest, the reality rarely lives up to the romance and I am OK with that--I think we all could benefit from letting ourselves get lost in the romance of an idea or perception instead of having to know every excruciating detail of reality."

L.C. put pen to paper

So tragic. I was flipping through Teen Vogue at the drug store the other day and nearly died when I saw an excerpt from Lauren Conrad's novel. NOVEL.

I wonder if chic lit will be the new celebrity fashion line?

Anyways, you can read it for yourself on the Teen Vogue website. It's supposed to be about a girl who moves to L.A. and ends up staring in a reality show. I wonder where her inspiration came from?