This week we were in the mood for a bit of history, so we travelled back in time with two new titles in the YLF Books Retrospective section. Are you also curious to find out more about the style concepts, technologies and ideas that left their indelible stamp on fashion as we know it? Then read all about it in Harriet Worsley’s 100 Ideas that Changed Fashion. Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern tells the story of the Roaring Twenties’ flappers and how they helped shape the era that brought about mass consumerism and modern advertising.

For our Movies category we selected The Queen, directed by Stephen Frears. Helen Mirren is very much in her element as Queen Elizabeth II in this account of what happened behind the scenes after Princess Diana’s death in 1997.  

As it happens, two of this week’s picks have also made it onto our first YLF Book Club reading list. As soon as we mentioned starting our own book club, feedback started pouring in. Good stuff! We’ve been working behind the scenes to sort out the specifics and posted our first official YLF Book Club reading list on the forum this week. You told us you would love to alternate books with movies, so that’s exactly what we are going to do. Friday will be our regular YLF Book Club day, and we’ll have our online meetings on the YLF forum. Every new title will get its own separate thread, and I’ll also announce the new meeting in that Friday’s Book Nook post on the main blog. 

To make sure everyone has plenty of time to get the titles on our list and really dig in, here is our calendar for the next five months:

We would love to hear your thoughts, so get ready to pull up a chair, grab a glass of wine and chat about books and movies!