A lot of bloggers post pictures of the amazing things in their purses. Me — I am posting the stuff in my purse not because it is amazing — but because there is SO MUCH STUFF! I really want a new fabulous, amazing, terrific, perfect bag, but with all my stuff I am severely limited in my options. Small little clutches are just not possible …

Plus, there is usually some sort of snack food, and during bad weather an umbrella, a hat, gloves, an extra scarf or all of the above. Hey! I can’t help it! I have a LONG commute. I need everything in here. Some days I am away from home for 20 hours …

Any ideas? Any great, large bags that totally work for you — and didn’t put you in the infamous poor house? S — O — S! Save our stuff! {ah ahh ah ahah ahha}

{Via: Pandora}

The Lottery (and Other Stories), Shirley Jackson

To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton

White Teeth, Zadie Smith

The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende

Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion

Excellent Women, Barbara Pym

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys

The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri

Beloved, Toni Morrison

Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

Like Life, Lorrie Moore

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

The Delta of Venus, Anais Nin

A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley

A Good Man Is Hard To Find (and Other Stories), Flannery O’Connor

The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx

You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down, Alice Walker

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Fear of Flying, Erica Jong

Earthly Paradise, Colette

Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt

Property, Valerie Martin

Middlemarch, George Eliot

Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid

The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir

Runaway, Alice Munro

The Heart is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers

The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

You Must Remember This, Joyce Carol Oates

Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

Bad Behavior, Mary Gaitskill

The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Betty Smith

And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie

Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison

The Secret History, Donna Tartt

The Little Disturbances of Man, Grace Paley

The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker

The Group, Mary McCarthy

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing

The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Against Interpretation, Susan Sontag

In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez

The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck

Fun Home, Alison Bechdel

Three Junes, Julia Glass

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft

Sophie’s Choice, William Styron

Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann

Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford

Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin

The Red Tent, Anita Diamant

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

The Face of War, Martha Gellhorn

My Antonia, Willa Cather

Love In The Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Harsh Voice, Rebecca West

Spending, Mary Gordon

The Lover, Marguerite Duras

The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

Tell Me a Riddle, Tillie Olsen

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes

Three Lives, Gertrude Stein

Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons

I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith

Possession, A.S. Byatt

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PS> Pink-shaded ones are ones I have already read …

& from the look of things I need to get to the library!

Some of these I may not agree with …

Do YOU have any others to add?

{Via: Jezebel}

Too sick to blog. Send flowers. Daisies are my favorite. {XOXO}  ~ C

I am very self-conscious about my glasses — even though my husband says they are sexy. I even tried to save up for lasik {ended up spending the small pot on a terrific purse instead}.  I know, in my twisted mind, that I look like a huge dork. But after looking at these lovely shots of real, celebrity, and model ‘four-eyed’ hotties — I may be becoming more comfortable with my specs. Thoughts?

PS> Pola Debevoise is a character in this movie. Hilarious. Watch it.

{Via: Haute Design | Tavi | Haute Design | Street Peeper | Pandora | Purse Blog | Dior | Fendi | Chanel}

… just this — Emma if I had money, your ads would talk me into buying …

Ps> made sure not to post the pic with the missing limb…

{Via: Burberry}