Emily in France 🇫🇷 Life Under Lockdown
Lockdown part 2.
Lockdown in Paris feels a lot less severe this time around, for lack of a better word. While technically, Parisians are meant to leave home only to buy essential groceries and to go for an hour's exercise, this month, despite far worse weather than March or April, people are milling about in the streets, congregating in parks, and even apparently enjoying clandestine parties.
I, meanwhile, am firmly ensconced in NaNoWriMo, admittedly walking way too far out of my way to go grocery shopping, and writing (and reading!) the following.
Things I'm Writing
1. Between lockdowns, I paid a visit to the lovely folks of family-run Champagne house AR Lenoble to talk femininity, winemaking, climate change, and more with Anne Malassagne, for Pellicle.
2. Days before the election, the EPA reapproved an herbicide that has been deemed even more dangerous than glyphosate. More for Organic Authority.
3. If sustainable weight loss is what you want, then habits – not rules – are what you need. These are the ten experts recommend, for Eat This, Not That.
Things I'm Reading
1. When not one but two of my book clubs elected to read Girl, Woman, Other, I knew I had to sit up and take notice. More of my thoughts on this Man Booker winner on the blog.
2. When the pandemic shuttered his second grade classroom, one Oakland teacher decided to read out loud every day. His story is on Represent Collaborative.
3. Branwell is the least-known of the four Brontë siblings, which is only part of what drew Douglas A. Martin to fictionalize his story. More on Martin's "speculative biography" of Branwell for Electric Literature.
A bientôt !