Joss & Main

Back before Christmas I saw and advert on the TV for this really neat website for home furnishings!  I was sold with one little commercial...what can I say I'm an imaginary interior designer in my head.  I immediately looked it up on my phone and what do you know they have an App…downloaded that baby and I’ve been hooked ever since.  Joss & Main is a home furnishings website that sells, I would say, higher end things or higher priced things for your home.  You sign in and you can see the actual price of the item and then the discounted J&M price…sort of like Wayfair I guess but each day there are different pools of items put into a theme or category.  I have yet to buy anything but it feeds my interior design brain and I get lots of good ideas from it.  Over the next few weeks and I guess onward I’m going to share little compilations of Joss & Main screen shots of things that tickle my fancy.  Hope you enjoy.

 

Up first rugs!

 

Don’t ask me why but I can’t get enough of rugs.  I love looking at all the designs and brainstorming where I can make them work. LOL This is probably due to all the time I’ve been spending at Hendrik’s seeing he has concrete floors I’m layering them with awesome patterns in my head. LOL

 

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Books I want to Read

I was browsing an Amazon email the other day month for top books and stumbled across these three that sounded really good to me!

I hope to get them over the Spring and Summer.

1. The Book of Jonah: A Novel

Amazon Synopsis:
A major literary debut, an epic tale of love, failure, and unexpected faith set in New York, Amsterdam, and Las VegasThe modern-day Jonah at the center of Joshua Max Feldman’s brilliantly conceived retelling of the book of Jonah is a young Manhattan lawyer named Jonah Jacobstein. He’s a lucky man: healthy and handsome, with two beautiful women ready to spend the rest of their lives with him and an enormously successful career that gets more promising by the minute. He’s celebrating a deal that will surely make him partner when a bizarre, unexpected biblical vision at a party changes everything. Hard as he tries to forget what he saw, this disturbing sign is only the first of many Jonah will witness, and before long his life is unrecognizable. Though this perhaps divine intervention will be responsible for more than one irreversible loss in Jonah’s life, it will also cross his path with that of Judith Bulbrook, an intense, breathtakingly intelligent woman who’s no stranger to loss herself. As this funny and bold novel moves to Amsterdam and then Las Vegas, Feldman examines the way we live now while asking an age-old question: How do you know if you’re chosen?

2. Caught

Amazon Synopsis:
Caught begins with a prison break. Twenty-five-year-old David Slaney, locked up on charges of marijuana possession, has escaped his cell and sprinted to the highway. There, he is picked up by a friend of his sister’s and transported to a strip bar where he survives his first night on the run. But evading the cops isn’t his only objective; Slaney intends to track down his old partner, Hearn, and get back into the drug business. Along the way, Slaney’s fugitive journey across Canada rushes vibrantly to life as he visits an old flame and adopts numerous guises to outpace authorities: hitchhiker, houseguest, student, lover. When finally he reunites with Hearn just steps ahead of a detective hell-bent on making a high-profile arrest, their scheme sends Slaney to Mexico, Colombia, and back again on an epic quest fueled by luck, charm, and unbending conviction.

Moore's most plot-driven novel to date, Caught is a thrillingly charged escapade that thrums with energy and suspense and deftly captures a moment in the late 1970s before the almost folkloric glamour surrounding pot smuggling turned violent. Ripe with bravado, love, ambition, and folly, Caught is about trust and deceit, about the risks we take for the lives we want and the mistakes we can’t outrun.
 

3. Your Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits

Amazon Synopsis:
Becoming a young Wall Street banker is like pledging the world's most lucrative and soul-crushing fraternity. Every year, thousands of eager college graduates are hired by the world's financial giants, where they're taught the secrets of making obscene amounts of money-- as well as how to dress, talk, date, drink, and schmooze like real financiers.
YOUNG MONEY
Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits
YOUNG MONEY is the inside story of this well-guarded world. Kevin Roose, New York magazine business writer and author of the critically acclaimed The Unlikely Disciple, spent more than three years shadowing eight entry-level workers at Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and other leading investment firms. Roose chronicled their triumphs and disappointments, their million-dollar trades and runaway Excel spreadsheets, and got an unprecedented (and unauthorized) glimpse of the financial world's initiation process.
Roose's young bankers are exposed to the exhausting workloads, huge bonuses, and recreational drugs that have always characterized Wall Street life. But they experience something new, too: an industry forever changed by the massive financial collapse of 2008. And as they get their Wall Street educations, they face hard questions about morality, prestige, and the value of their work.
YOUNG MONEY is more than an exposé of excess; it's the story of how the financial crisis changed a generation-and remade Wall Street from the bottom up.

Happy Reading!!!