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Happy April from The Attic on Eighth!!

Our 2019 in Books: Olivia Gündüz-Willemin

Our 2019 in Books: Olivia Gündüz-Willemin 

“So, in 2019, I read to soothe, to spark joy, to relish the written word. I read what I wanted to read and slowly, I learned to accept that sometimes, to read better, we need to read less.” 

Our 2019 in Books: Olivia Gündüz-Willemin

“For years, it felt like the effort to keep going was about equivalent to walking through a wall of fire, shrieking all the way through with a book in hand.”

“I don’t get out of my pajamas until five in the afternoon. Then I put on a sweater.” No line has ever spoken to us and our holiday dressing mood for this last week of the year so clearly as Bertie Wooster. To see more of our piece on dressing while home for the holidays (and to see @raquelle and @oliviasview styling the same sweater), see our link in bio. #theatticfashion @raquelle (at Savannah, Georgia)

Closing out our series on beating the holiday blues, new contributor @paperbackprescription offers an easy list of festive activities for those of us on our own this season. Read more through the link in bio. ✨ @paperbackprescription

Embracing all olfactory support, candles and fresh pines included, this holiday morning. @laurenolmeda

How To Wrap a Gift – M.A. McCuen for The Attic on Eighth 

How To Wrap a Gift – M.A. McCuen for The Attic on Eighth 

Have you gotten caught up in holiday films? Four Attic writers are talking the made-for-tv Christmas movie phenomena. 

If you’re like our Editor-at-Large (and forever #PoliticalEditor) @laurenolmeda, you’re feeling sad and tired about politics right now. That’s ok! Read her piece on why it’s ok to feel sad and tired through the link in bio and stay strong. https://www.instagram.com/p/B6McjQGgCfE/?igshid=17bgbqwi9nijh

What We’re Reading – December 2019: From serious engrossing reads to new exciting titles and comforting holiday treats, here’s what we’re reading the last month of the year!

“Cooking to Cook” is based around the idea of cooking for one’s own pleasure, for the purpose of making mistakes and learning along the way. In this latest edition, frequent Attic contributor Milena Le Fouillé bakes to celebrate the end of exams and delves into the history of panettone.

“Cooking to Cook” is based around the idea of cooking for one’s own pleasure, for the purpose of making mistakes and learning along the way. In this latest edition, frequent Attic contributor Milena Le Fouillé bakes to celebrate the end of exams and delves into the history of panettone.

Spotting holiday cheer everywhere we go ✨ @zgburnett (at Boston Athenæum)

How To Write A Holiday Card – Writing your holiday cards but don’t know how to go about them? We have you covered with everything from card etiquette to a writing template. 

December at The Attic on Eighth 

Five Things To Do This December – Welcoming the final month of the year (and decade!!), Creative Director Raquel Reyes shares an easy to-do list for kicking off the most festive time of the year. Photo by Olivia Gündüz-Willemin-Willemin.

At The Attic on Eighth, we thrive on the comfort of small pleasures. A good cup of coffee, a curated book shelf, a walk through the park. As we grow individually, we share these pleasures, and how to achieve them, with each other and now with you. After all, we are nothing less than perfectionists, and the best way to enjoy anything for us comes at least a little bit in knowing how to do it flawlessly. For the first in our official How To series, Editor-in-Chief Olivia Gündüz-Willemin talks candles, and how to burn them. Photos by Raquel Reyes. 

Taking us on a literary pilgrimage to the Hague, art historian Kiely Schuck talks about Carel Fabritius’s The Goldfinch and its role in Donna Tartt’s novel of the same name.

What We’re Reading – November 2019
As mid-November creeps up on us all, Attic writers Lauren Olmeda, Milena Le Fouillé, and Olivia Gündüz-Willemin share what it is that they’re reading this month, from old classics to contemporary non-fiction.