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Michele Connolly is the award-winning author of How to Be Elegant, Chic Minimalism, How to Be an Introvert in an Extrovert World, How to Be Thin in a World of Chocolate, A Chic Year, 10-Day Life Audit, and the Elegant Action Guides series.

She writes short, often funny personal essays—on relationships, self-possession, and the underrated pleasures of opting out—at The Chic Minimalist on Substack.

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	How to Be Thin In A World Of Chocolate: Without Diets, Willpower, or Guilt 3.52 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Be an Introvert in an Extrovert World 3.74 avg rating — 130 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Be Elegant: 21 Rules for Grace, Poise, and Charm 4.45 avg rating — 40 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Acquired: Age 15; he was an older man (16). We met at a railway station, in our school uniforms.

Divested: We broke up several months later. Likely because our relationship principally involved catching trains to and from our respective schools, with one or both of us being too shy to speak.

Dividends: He agreed to partner me for my ‘debut’, a strange affair hosted by my school that

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Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

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The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play

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Michele Connolly has read Bluets by Maggie Nelson	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I love people's obsessions, and this is a prose poem from a woman obsessed with... blue, among other things. The small numbered sections form an original panorama. My favorite is 28: '... we fuck well because he is a passive top and I am an active bo ...more
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Burden’s clinical narrative voice makes it difficult to understand the genuine dynamic of their marriage. What was each of them really like? Did the absence of conflict signal something else, pushed beneath the surface? Burden seeks explanations for ...more
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I love people's obsessions, and this is a prose poem from a woman obsessed with... blue, among other things. The small numbered sections form an original panorama. My favorite is 28: '... we fuck well because he is a passive top and I am an active bo ...more
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Michele Connolly has read Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Smith initially resisted writing a first-person novel and was 'always a little repelled by the idea'. Whether memoir or fiction, 'it's all writing,' she says. But the essays I enjoyed in this collection were the personal ones: 'The I Who Is Not Me,' ...more
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The ideas (many 'borrowed') about truth and fiction are strung together rather than shaped into a cogent argument—at least not one I could follow. But I was stimulated and entertained all the same. Worth reading, for readers and writers. ...more
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Yesteryear was well-written, propulsive, and zeitgeisty—playing with social media, tradwives, and the manosphere. The way the two strands were ultimately synthesized didn’t quite satisfy me. But overall, I enjoyed the novel.
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Helen Garner is such an extraordinary writer. It's not so much her language as how she observes, how she processes, and then how she expresses it for the reader. She has the eye of a psychologist, and this book makes me realise how much I love that f ...more
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“I value beauty, order, and freedom, so for me minimalism means having a few lovely things, all of them beautifully organized, with the least amount of maintenance and upkeep. More pleasure, more time.”
― Michele Connolly, Chic Minimalism: 21 Rules For Mastering The Art Of Less

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