From the Editor’s Desk: Week of 12.22.14

To Read: Jolene Hart, Eat Pretty: Nutrition for Beauty, Inside and Out, $15.26.

Take advantage of your extra time this week and pick up a book! If you want to learn about the science behind beauty-boosting foods, and get a few tips on stress management (amongst other things), then this is the holiday read for you.

To Quote: Dancing is so 2013.

To Make: Big stitch scarf. Expand your craft repertoire over the holidays by trying your hand at big stitch crochet. Tools available here.

To Emulate: Knit dress + knit sweater. No one will know whether you’re staying in or going out – and that’s the point.

To Escape: Home for the holidays.

What to Read: Holiday 2014

I don’t know about you, but I feel like my eyes have finally recovered from college. Over the holiday break, I look forward to reading for fun — what a novel concept after years of reading textbooks. The ten books below are by no means fresh off the press, but are ones I look forward to re-reading, finally finishing, and finally opening.

For the Entrepreneur: Sophia Amoruso, Girl Boss, $16.17.

For the Bitter: Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, $9.00.

For the Barnard Alum: Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies, $8.44.

For the Animal Lover: Daphne Sheldrick, Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story, $12.61.

For the Romantic: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, $8.94.

For the Francophile: Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, $9.94.

For the Art Historian: Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist, $17.07.

For the Aspiring Artist: France Belleville-Van Stone, Sketch! The Non-Artist’s Guide to Inspiration Technique, and Drawing Daily Life, $14.68.

For the Coffee Table: Haydn Williams, Turquerie: An Eighteenth-Century European Fantasy, $40.90.

For your Own Good (get on the bandwagon): Donna Tart, The Goldfinch, $18.00.