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Owning Manhattan, Death at Pemberley & Cher’s Memoir: What I’m Watching, Listening to & Reading this week

This is my weekly roundup of links and recommendations. If we talked IRL, I’d likely derail our entire conversation with “Sidebar, have you read | watched | listened | deep dived on this?”

This week I did a deep dive on the American Girl Magazine paper dolls. All paid members also received a zine with instructions to make an updated version for themselves. If you’ve ever been curious about your own family history or exploring fashion history, this could be a great entry point!

Have you watched?

I’m watching Owning Manhattan (Netflix) which is scratching a similar itch to Sold on SLC (Peacock) aka “I am so depressed at the state of the world, I can only handle the fake drama of a reality tv show about real estate.”

I will also be rewatching Death at Pemberley this weekend (PBS Masterpiece). I highly recommend this Austen-inspired mystery based on a book by P.J. James. It is one of the few occasions when the adaptation is better than the book.