Life and Soul of the Party

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He was the life and soul of any party and a natural ‘bon-viveur’ — but beneath the bonhomie lay a rare intelligence combined with a unique ability to make art and text work together in the most engaging and elegant of ways. He had an astute understanding of the principles of good design, which he shared gregariously and generously with those who worked with him. He leaves a legacy of beautiful and meaningful books — together with a generation of grateful designers many of whom who learnt their craft from him.”

In this book we follow the life of 6 friends along a year, through the point of view of them all, and that makes it more interesting. And the fact that we know from the beggining one of the main events of the story makes it more unputdownable and touching. My first paid writing gig was for a listings magazine in Birmingham — (Actually my first unpaid writing gig was an interview with Kitchens of Distinction for Salford Student Magazine. I can’t begin to tell you how terrible it was.)

life and soul of the party

I first read TLASOTP when I was eighteen years old, and over ten years later I decided to dust it off (oh man it was dusty) and read it again because I vaguely remembered it being quite a light read, and after some of the dark non-fiction I’ve been reading lately I wanted to read something less depressing. I also used to live in Manchester — another great city (although technically I lived in Salford which is next door but that’s sort of splitting hairs). They may be rather reserved, not giving opinions or showing their feelings: I found her slightly reserved. Someone who is chatty likes to talk a lot in a friendly, informal way: Jamie was his usual chatty self. She emphasised his warm and generous nature: “Ian was the person you gravitated to at publishing parties, guaranteed to make everyone laugh, but always with a judicious and kind word if you needed advice.”

Someone who is extremely sociable, going to as many parties as possible, may be called informally a party animal: He used to be a real party animal before he had kids. Craig worked as a freelance for the last 20 years as Kerr’s creative director and before that worked for HarperCollins and Jonathan Cape. He was based in Scotland with his wife Kate. He died over the weekend after a short illness.They may feel slightly embarrassed or nervous speaking to people they don’t know. An adjective for this is awkward: