Emma in Pictures

vintageanchor:

 “Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”
― Edith Wharton

Happy 150th Birthday Edith Wharton — you don’t look a day over 99.

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Surely I am not the only one who has harbored secret dreams of being an heiress — not the nouveau riche kind with a reality television crew trailing behind me, but the sort with a full staff, gobs of silver and afternoons spent on the hunt. Though I’ve come around to my untitled American life, I still adore reading books about drafty old houses and the privileged people who inhabit them.

—I wrote this piece for NPR about super awesome books you should read, especially if you’re obsessed with Downton Abbey. 

Cold chilling. (Taken with instagram)

Pie for one. (Taken with instagram)

Breakfast. (Taken with instagram)

Gravyboat’s great grandmother, I’m pretty sure. 

eriebasin:

A Photograph of a Puma by Vincent Musi for National Geographic

Oh hi, this is my nightstand. Someone complained that it looks tidy. I did tidy, of course. And since no one asked, the bookmarks are all resting on the tippy tip of the stack, and the glass of water goes inside the nightstand, because otherwise my cats knock it over in the middle of the night. 

housingworksbookstore:

Photo: Emma Straub’s nightstand

“I’m a fairly monogamous reader. The only time I’ll double up is if I’m reading something really heavy that I don’t want to carry around with me all day, but even then I’ll almost always suck it up and take it with me. And I’m not that fast, either — I think I read about fifty books last year, which is really paltry amount compared to some booksellers and super-readers I know.” (via Emma Straub! Fun Thing Day 65 « The Pencil Box)

Me too! I considered myself a fast and high-volume reader, in fact, until I started working in bookstores. Y’all are book demons, in the best way.

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Any member of NKOTB = automatic reblog

oldloves:

Halle Berry & Danny Wood, 1989

Tom Cruise has never looked better than this moment. 

oldloves:

Tom Cruise & Rebecca De Mornay, 1983