Clueless, part 10

This is part of a serial; you can read the previous installment here, or start at the beginning, here.

The whole drinking-while-pregnant thing is so confusing. My mother tells me she drank lightly throughout her pregnancies. And a friend who is a doctor says it’s okay to drink a glass of wine in the later trimesters, but in terms of public health messaging, it’s easier to tell people not to drink at all. I really should have had a drink at that wedding. I would have had a better time.

In an unrelated topic, I just finished Brecht Evens’ latest book, ‘The Making of’, and I have a water colour crush. I love the way he constructs his narratives with greens, blues and magentas. The scenes he paints are so lush and surreal. I also highly recommend Alison Bechdel’s ‘Are you my mother?’, which is beautifully written and drawn with ink washes – a fantastic meditation on the creative process, and the perils of memoir. It gave me a hankering to go to psychoanalysis. There’s a review here, which also includes Guy Delisle’s ‘Jeruselum’, a book that I admired and enjoyed for its astute observations of life in Israel. It’s not overtly political and yet it delivers a powerful message about the injustices the Palestinians have to endure.

Postscript: since publishing this, I’ve been told that the museum is Sir John Soane’s Museum.