First Rodeo

First Rodeo

The Weekender // 003

The best pens for notetaking, festive but year-around gift wrap, a good Gucci "dupe", Mary-Kate Olsen's horses and so much more...

Azora Zoe Paknad
Nov 01, 2025
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Hi Weekenders. I tried (and failed) to keep our Little Luxuries light this week since I have our October installment of Reads & Recs coming your way early next week! I got to go see Sabrina Carpenter at Madison Square Garden last night and I was in hog heaven— can you imagine a better Halloween!? 🎃✨🎀

I have to ask— have any of you read Wolf Hall? I have been trying to get through it all year— first the Kindle edition, now the audiobook performed by a prolific actor— and I had a breakthrough moment the other day where I realized I’ve internalized 0% of it and I need to start over entirely. 🫠 I feel perplexed because I’m such a Tudor history buff too… this should be easy!

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If you’ve read it, can you tell me if it gets easier? Or how the hell to accomplish this feat!? Okay, now back to regularly scheduled programming. ✨

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