Books

Whenever I am going on vacation to a place I try to read a few books about its history first. It gets me psychologically situated for what I’m going to experience and I also find that people appreciate it and are even touched to find that you know a bit about their history.

Reading deepens your enjoyment of life. I don’t know if I’d enjoy travel so much if I wasn’t aware of all the layers of history beneath a place that I was visiting. I’m planning to travel through a few countries in southern Europe later this year and am reading books in anticipation.

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Interestingly, I recently started doing that with fashion of all things. Never really been into fashion, but the psychological appeal it has, from branding power and timelessness drew me in. 

Just finished The Cartiers by the great granddaughter of the founders and it surprised me as to how multicultural their story was. Although French, their story is steeped in American and Hindostani influences. Now when I look at a Cartier piece like the Tank, the story of its origin gives a new form of appreciation that only reading through it brings.

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