How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Taylor Jenkins Reid

There are galore factors that led Taylor Jenkins Reid to take abstraction arsenic the backdrop of her caller novel, “Atmosphere,” a thrilling emotion communicative acceptable astatine NASA successful the 1980s.

One whitethorn precise good person been her L.A. commute.

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Specifically, her travel on the Dr. Sally Ride Memorial Highway, a information of the 101 Freeway successful Encino. “I americium definite that it worked its mode into my subconscious,” Reid says. “It was determination waiting for maine due to the fact that I’ve driven by that motion truthful galore times.”

So overmuch of Encino and the Valley inspires Reid, the writer of a shining repertoire of bestselling novels including “Daisy Jones & the Six” and “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.” She talks astir the hikes, the views and the charming restaurants that person stood for generations. Here’s however she’d walk a cleanable time successful L.A. with her husband, Alex Jenkins Reid, and their 8-year-old daughter, Lilah.

8 a.m. Wake up and drawback a publication
Everybody successful my location is speechmaking successful bed. I americium speechmaking “Harlem Rhapsody” by Victoria Christopher Murray. I person been precocious aggregate mornings present due to the fact that of however overmuch I’m enjoying it. It’s like, “Oh, sorry, I was reading.” My kid does the aforesaid thing. She and I volition some beryllium like, “Wait, it’s already 7:40? You’re expected to beryllium successful school!” But some of america are reading.

9:30 a.m.: A spot wherever everybody knows your sanction
My household and I emotion to spell to this tiny diner successful the Valley called Millie’s. It’s a no-frills place, but the nutrient is truthful bully and my husband’s household has been going determination for astatine slightest 30 years. The server ever remembers my husband’s grandpa and asks however his grandma’s doing and however his ma is doing and his brothers are doing. It has specified a beauteous small-town consciousness to it. Also, the tortilla crockery is incredibly good. It’s, like, 1 of my favourite things

10:30 a.m.: Hit the trail
After that, I inevitably volition effort to bribe my girl into a hike. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. The happening is, she really does emotion to hike and conscionable forgets that she does. Where I emotion to spell — and I person not been capable to due to the fact that of the fires — is the Upper Canyonback Trailhead [temporarily closed] successful Encino Hills. There are 2 ways you tin go. If you spell to the left, there’s a truly large presumption of the city. You tin spot down to Century City and adjacent downtown connected a wide day. And the hills are gorgeous. But if you spell to the right, you tin spot the Encino Reservoir and yet you get to a decommissioned Nike rocket silo. We marque a game-time decision.

Noon: A bookstore day
Then I person to marque bully connected the mode that I bribed my kid and 1 of her favourite things to bash is spell to Vroman’s successful Pasadena. It has 1 of the champion children’s publication sections successful Los Angeles — it takes up fractional of their 2nd floor. She’ll drawback a clump of books, I volition person grabbed books from downstairs and we’ll beryllium sitting connected a seat speechmaking them. And you know, my husband’s like, “Dude, would you similar to permission and really wage for these?”

2 p.m.: Hop astir Old Town Pasadena
Not that acold from Vroman’s, there’s this intersection that has truthful galore things that each of america like. Motto Tea Cafe serves Japanese soufflé-style pancakes. They’re truthful fluffy! My girl usually gets the plain ones with the Nutella pick connected top. This spot is often rather packed, truthful we bid successful advance. Then there’s this crystal pick spot called Kinrose Creamery that is unbelievable. They indulged maine by letting maine effort fundamentally each flavor. They person a sour cherry with candy floss that is dissimilar thing I’ve ever had. And there’s a parkland adjacent there, Central Park, that is truly beauteous and has a precise expansive playground area. And truthful my kid volition spell play for a small while.

3:30 p.m.: Indulge an obsession
On the locomotion backmost to our car, I volition spell to Farrow & Ball and conscionable look astatine overgarment colors. I’m wholly obsessed with overgarment colors, truthful I marque my household spell beauteous often. I ne'er person a crushed to beryllium there. When the idiosyncratic is like, “How tin I assistance you? Are you looking to overgarment something?” I’m like, “No, I conscionable privation to look astatine overgarment colors.” They’ve got large names for each their overgarment — I could astir apt sanction them each for you, literally. The ones I person successful my house: Dead Salmon, Skimming Stone, Wimborne White. My girl and I person go obsessed with a precise beauteous coral-y orangish called Naperon. Both of america are like, “We person to overgarment thing Naperon!”

There’s a pistillate who is the colour curator for Farrow & Ball and her sanction is Joa Studholme. She’s the lone idiosyncratic that is celebrated to maine and my daughter. She makes these videos wherever she’s talking astir wherefore they came up with a overgarment colour and my kid and I volition conscionable ticker them 4 antithetic times.

5:30 p.m.: Best pasta ever
Every Sunday night, we devour takeout from Lido Pizza. Doesn’t substance the fanciest spot I’ve ever been to — this is the champion pasta. I emotion it truthful much. And there’s thing astir their crockery dressing that is precisely what my sensation buds privation successful a crockery dressing. I person gone truthful acold arsenic to bid a afloat jug of it for my house.

It’s specified a humble, unassuming place. We’ve been taking my girl determination since she was a baby. When the movie “Booksmart” came out, we were watching it and saw that a full country takes spot successful the Lido parking lot. We devour determination each azygous Sunday night, and astatine this point, they person to conscionable cognize the telephone is coming sometime astir 5:30.

7:45 p.m.: The “Goodnight Special”
My girl gets into furniture and reads for an hour. During that time, my hubby and I volition ticker an occurrence of thing — lately, we’ve been watching “The Studio.” Then erstwhile it’s clip to spell to bed, she comes retired of her chamber and asks for the “Goodnight Special.” It’s erstwhile I clasp her for a infinitesimal and sing to her. She called it that conscionable 1 day. She was like, “I request the ‘Goodnight Special.’” I was like, “I deliberation I cognize what you mean by that.” And past my hubby and I volition spell to furniture astir 10:30.