# week reading (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover week reading. Page: Feed: --- ## [Weekend reading: 8.21.26](https://merrittbeck.substack.com/p/weekend-reading-82126) _2026-08-21 · Merritt Beck · Merritt Beck's Substack_ Big news at BÉIS, winter brands turning to summer, and powerful reflections from one child star on Hayden Panettiere ## [Off script: 8.21.26](https://merrittbeck.substack.com/p/off-script-82126) _2026-08-20 · Merritt Beck · Merritt Beck's Substack_ Listen now | Discussing Harry & Meghan’s move back to the UK, reviewing a new romance novel and a recap of our mahj retreat! ## [Week 33 Reading (2026) Elizabeth Bowen](https://sebald.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/week-33-reading-2026-elizabeth-bowen/) _2026-08-18 · Terry · Vertigo_ I first read Elizabeth Bowen’s 1935 novel The House in Paris so long ago that, when I picked it up again recently, it turns out I only recalled half of the plot. I won’t do a full plot summary because it would require more words than I usually devote to these mini-reviews and it would \[…\] ## [The best fall wedding guest dresses this season](https://merrittbeck.substack.com/p/the-best-fall-wedding-guest-dresses-68e) _2026-08-17 · Merritt Beck · Merritt Beck's Substack_ Plus, the dress I bought even though I have no occasion to wear it (yet)! ## [Weekend reading: 8.14.26](https://merrittbeck.substack.com/p/weekend-reading-81426) _2026-08-14 · Merritt Beck · Merritt Beck's Substack_ Makeup counter nostalgia, vacation rental recipes, Taylor Swift news and more! ## [Off script: 8.13.26](https://merrittbeck.substack.com/p/off-script-81326) _2026-08-13 · Merritt Beck · Merritt Beck's Substack_ Listen now | Dissecting The Idaho Murders, recapping my day trip to the Hamptons and more from the past week! ## [The beauty bulletin](https://merrittbeck.substack.com/p/the-beauty-bulletin) _2026-08-12 · Merritt Beck · Merritt Beck's Substack_ A dedicated spot to share all of my skincare, beauty, and hair favorites! ## [Fresh picks: transitional style steals under $200](https://merrittbeck.substack.com/p/fresh-picks-transitional-style-steals) _2026-08-10 · Merritt Beck · Merritt Beck's Substack_ An effortless dinner look you can wear right now + new & noteworthy finds from MANGO, COS and ZARA! ## [Weekend reading: 8.7.26](https://merrittbeck.substack.com/p/weekend-reading-8726) _2026-08-07 · Merritt Beck · Merritt Beck's Substack_ A new fitness trend, best tips for applying blush, a movie remake I'm excited about + new for fall at Nordstrom! ## [Off script: 8.6.26](https://merrittbeck.substack.com/p/off-script-8626) _2026-08-06 · Merritt Beck · Merritt Beck's Substack_ Listen now | A full Nantucket trip recap! What I loved, what I hated, and everything in between. ## [Meet Claude, the AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/qbKFPur1OTpl) _2026-08-06 · **Sponsored**_ Conversational AI to answer questions, brainstorm ideas, and help with tasks. ## [Everything I bought while shopping on Nantucket](https://merrittbeck.substack.com/p/everything-i-bought-while-shopping) _2026-08-05 · Merritt Beck · Merritt Beck's Substack_ Also, what I wore all weekend + my Nantucket travel guide and vlog are both live! ## [Week 31 Reading (2026) Virginia Woolf & Samuel Delany](https://sebald.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/week-31-reading-2026-virginia-woolf-samuel-delany/) _2026-08-03 · Terry · Vertigo_ Virginia Woolf. Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing. 2nd ed. Harcourt, 1985. The earliest of the five pieces in Moments of Being is “Reminiscences,” begun in 1907. Written when Woolf was just a fledgling writer, it is addressed to the unborn child of her sister Vanessa, who had just married Clive Bell that \[…\] ## [A striped set worth packing](https://merrittbeck.substack.com/p/a-striped-set-worth-packing) _2026-08-03 · Merritt Beck · Merritt Beck's Substack_ The look I was most excited to pack for Nantucket + a fresh array of style steals under $150! ## [Beck & Call: 8.2.26](https://merrittbeck.substack.com/p/beck-and-call-8226) _2026-08-02 · Merritt Beck · Merritt Beck's Substack_ Tuscany outfit planning, stand alone summer tops, luggage recs and a chic burgundy edit for fall! ## [Week 30 Reading (2026) Martha Ronk & Vanessa Bell](https://sebald.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/week-30-reading-2026-martha-ronk-vanessa-bell/) _2026-07-27 · Terry · Vertigo_ Vertigo (Coffee House Press, 2007) is my first book of poems by Martha Ronk, and it won’t be my last. I picked it up because “some of the titles are revised forms of sentences from W.G. Sebald’s novels.” How could I resist? The speakers in Ronk’s poems are often in situations that they themselves don’t \[…\] ## [Week 29 Reading (2026) – Joiner & Morrison](https://sebald.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/week-29-reading-2026-joiner-morrison/) _2026-07-20 · Terry · Vertigo_ This turned out to be a week accidentally dedicated to jazz. Any fan of jazz will enjoy Fred L. Joiner’s wonderful book of poetry, The Mirror in Our Music. It includes two series of poems in which he responds to photographs. I also passed the halfway mark in my way through the fiction of Toni \[…\] ## [Week 28 (2026) – Morrison, Coetzee and Dimópulos](https://sebald.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/week-28-2026-morrison-coetzee-and-dimopulos/) _2026-07-13 · Terry · Vertigo_ In the week in which June crossed over into July, I read two short books, totaling about 220 pages in all. I’m in the midst of a run of books on the subject of translation, which will probably last for four or five titles, and I’m slowly working my way through the oeuvre of Toni \[…\] ## [Week 26 (2026) – Zawacki, Wittkop & Habermeyer](https://sebald.wordpress.com/2026/06/29/week-26-2026-zawacki-wittkop-habermeyer/) _2026-06-29 · Terry · Vertigo_ For years I have been writing a paragraph about every book I read as part of my annual Reading Log, which you can find above. Many of the books I read are from smaller, independent presses or were written by writers who aren’t everyday names, and I would like to give them a bit more \[…\] ## [Ryan Habermeyer’s “Necronauts”](https://sebald.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/ryan-habermeyers-necronauts/) _2026-06-26 · Terry · Vertigo_ “It is with sadness that we communicate the passing of the street sweeper, a curious man who came home from the war with a scar above his ear shaped like a pretzel. There was talk he had one of those Japanese microchips in his brain . . . On the weekends he set up a \[…\] ## [Genevieve Kaplan Erases Virginia Woolf into Poetry](https://sebald.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/genevieve-kaplan-erases-virginia-woolf-into-poetry/) _2026-05-29 · Terry · Vertigo_ “Nothing was simply one thing.” Virginia Woolf. To the Lighthouse. If you opened Genevieve Kaplan‘s chapbook Settings for these Scenes (Chicago: Convulsive Editions, 2013) and didn’t know how her poems were made (and you wouldn’t know that until you got to the final page), her first poem might appear to be more or less straightforward, \[…\] ## [Trade Smarter With IBKR (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/9y5wPxJo5xGR) _2026-05-29 · **Sponsored**_ Join Interactive Brokers through a referral and access low-cost global trading. ## [“The Wound” by Laurent Mauvignier](https://sebald.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/the-wound-by-laurent-mauvignier/) _2026-05-11 · Terry · Vertigo_ “very far away there are reasons, connections, networks, invisible things working on us and we don’t understand a thing about them.” A small village in rural France in the early 2000s, some forty years after the brutal Algerian War of Independence ended in 1962. Bernard unexpectedly shows up at a party for his sister Solange’s \[…\] ## [Wolfgang Koeppen’s Trilogy Redux](https://sebald.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/wolfgang-koeppens-trilogy-redux/) _2026-05-01 · Terry · Vertigo_ In a promotional email, the publisher New Directions is hyping the idea that Wolfgang Koeppen’s great trilogy of novels written in the early 1950s “has finally returned in Michael Hofmann’s breathtaking translation.” What New Directions really means is that Pigeons on the Grass, The Hothouse, and Death in Rome are all finally being published as a \[…\] ## [“Sebald Remembering” Program, Berlin, June 6, 2026](https://sebald.wordpress.com/2026/04/25/sebald-remembering-program-berlin-june-6-2026/) _2026-04-25 · Terry · Vertigo_ Lettrétage, “an anchor institution for Berlin’s independent literary scene,” has announced a special program devoted to W.G. Sebald in their Berlin space on June 6, 2026, called “Sebald Remembering.” The event website says: “At the heart of Sebald’s work lies a deep understanding of crises, an exploration of the effects of catastrophes on the human \[…\]