Required reading for harried yuppies: living a Beautiful Life by Alexandra Stoddard (Random House, $17.95). Subtitled “Five Hundred Ways to Add Elegance, Order, Beauty and Joy to Every Day of Your Life,” this wise little book offers sweeping philosophy and-more importantly-specific tips for turning the mundane routines of daily life into restorative rituals. “I’m willing to pay attention to the little things: when they’re right they shore us up,” writes Stoddard, a New fork City-based interior designer, and she covers a multitude of them-from the keeping of lists to the importance of put-tering to a technique for clipping magazines.
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