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We have been back to school two weeks and are slowly finding our routine. We have been starting each day of school with music and it just wakes our brains up and puts us in good moods. Overall, the week itself was weird but it had lots of good moments too. Yesterday we went to Hawkfest which our metropark system puts on every year and we got to see so many different raptors up close. This little screech owl is named Sparkle! She is so cute!!
Read Last Week:
I finished up This Poison Heart and started The Agathas. I really enjoyed This Poison Heart, and so far I am liking The Agathas as well!
Reading Next:
If I finish up The Agathas this week, then I plan to start a NetGalley read about ghosts – ’tis the season and all.
And Wyatt and I are still reading The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp.
Posted Last Week:
Book Review: Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
Spooky Cinema Season: The Addams Family
Friday Morning Coffee Catch Up
Listening and Watching:
I was out in the evening a few nights last week, and so was Billy (we were weirdly social) so we really didn’t watch much. A Murdoch here and there, and then we watched The Addams Family together as well.
As for listening, I started two audiobooks but I am probably going to stop listening to them and instead just read them at some point. I always think because I love podcasts I should be able to listen to audiobooks but they just don’t work for me, which makes me sad.
And that is about it from our corner of the mitten state! How are you all today?
Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs.. 
My brain wanders off during audiobooks or someone comes in and talks to me like I am not listening to the audio book
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Yes! Lol. Same here!!
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Didn’t finish that comment. Oops. Anyhow – sounds like a full but good week in a lot of ways. Hope this week is less busy but still good.
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My son has just started school so this week was half days. Next week he is in full time! I can’t believe how fast that time went!
I want to read The Agathas. It is currently on loan at my library, but I will be keeping an eye on that!
Have a great weekend!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
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It goes so crazy fast!! I look at my 7 year old and I am like wait, weren’t you a tiny baby yesterday?
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It is just crazy! At the time it is slow when you are having to get up in the night to feed etc then suddenly they are off to school!
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What a great week! The Agathas looks good, too. Enjoy your week!
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I am really enjoying it!
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That’s a good photo of the screech owl. I like hearing one in the woods nearby us but haven;t heard him this year, yet.
I tried audio books but they don’t work for me either.
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Thank you! I love little screech owls too. We like to go on Owl Prowls at the MetroParks in the fall and winter – they can call the owls in, and it is so neat!
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I think having the right kind of book makes it easier to listen to an audiobook. For me, books with humor of some kind work well. I can’t listen to suspense books, there are usually too many characters to keep straight through audio. Have a great week!
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You know maybe that is it! I will try something that is not a thriller, because that is what I was listening to.
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I hope you do! If you like Romantic Comedies, I highly recommend anything by Emma St. Clair, they are hilarious, and the narrators are fabulous! The narrator can make or break books too. I need to start a list of the ones I like and the ones I don’t 😉
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It’s great to hear the schooling is going so well. I can’t get into audiobooks either – which is frustrating because of all that lost opportunity when I’m commuting or doing jobs around the house!
I haven’t tried any podcasts but I would need to stop doing something else to make time to listen to them, and I guess I’d rather be reading, lol.
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Yes!! That is exactly what I was thinking lol. I could “read” so many more books if I could listen to audiobooks!
I listen to podcasts when I am cleaning – they must be easier to follow. Lol.
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The Agatha’s looks fun. 🙂 And I still want to try Murdoch at some point.
Have a wonderful week/
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We love Murdoch! It is campy and quirky and fun and interesting. Lol. I hated it at first but now I love it.
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I love that picture of Sparkle, and Hawkfest sounds amazing!
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Thank you!! She was so sweet, and such a good sport!
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wow, a hawkfest sounds great!
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It is pretty neat! They have lots of things for the kids, they have rehabbed raptors to meet, and they also release a lot of newly banded hawks. It is fun!
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Audiobooks don’t work for me either. I’m curious about the Invisible Ghost Ladies, I’ll be looking for your thoughts
Wishing you a great reading week
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I am super excited to get started on that one!
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I think listening to audiobooks is an acquired skill but, since I’m an audio learner it wasn’t as difficult. Glad you’re settling into a good school/fall routine!
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That might be part of it, I am not an audio learner at all. It’s probably where I am weakest. Maybe I should keep trying and building that up!
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Oh, a Hawkfest would be such fun! I love hawks…they are so majestic! I have never listened to an audio book because I’m a terrible listener! I usually phase people out if they talk too long! Shame on me! I hope your week goes really well!
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It is pretty fun! I love birds.
I kind of do that too, I am sad to say. Eek. Lol.
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We are having a Hummingbird festival this weekend and next back at home, and a Hawkfest sounds fantastic, too. I must remember to travel down to Hawkwatch this year, an event where we count migrating hawks by the Gulf of Mexico.
I’m eager to hear what you think about The Agathas. I love the idea of that book.
I tend to have trouble with audiobooks, too, especially with fiction.
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That is the main part of Hawkfest actually, counting the migrating hawks! We go more for the kids stuff now with Wyatt but we used to go for the count pre-parenthood. Lol.
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Sparkle is so cute! I love how grumpy owls look. Some books just don’t work for me in audiobook. I listened to Thursday Murder Club on audio book because I had heard such raves about that version but after about an hour I had to call it quits and just get the book. Have a wonderful week!
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Lol they do!! I am about to post in a few minutes a few more photos – and one owl looks…hmm. Chatty? I will let you decide.
Ugh that is how I am!! Lol. I am glad to know that it is not just me and that I am in good company!
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