Sadie Stein

Oh, that's so good.

Well, she was a decorator.

She was this kind of grand dame decorator who wrote outrageous prose.

And...

She also read this book, Entertaining is Fun, about how to entertain, how to have people over.

It was written in the late 40s.

It's just really fun.

The book itself looks great.

It's been reissued by Rizzoli, I think.

Polka dot cover, good on a shelf.

I think it's a cheery and eccentric and fun but not weird gift.

Yes.

Well, you know, I love Janice Hallett's kind of twisty, kind of puzzle boxy mysteries, especially The Mysterious Case of the Albertan Angels.

She does these kind of modern epistolary books, and I really think you have to read them as books.

They require your full attention and your full concentration, and they reward it.

And she does different things in each one, but it could be everything from a phone transcript to a –

a bunch of text messages to, in short, it's ingenious.

She's a brilliant plotter.

Check it out for sure.

What I was going to say is one trick for people who...