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Hello everyone!! We have been getting so much rain here! It is like bouts of rainy dreary clouds/then a few hours of sun and humidity. I was finally able to get out and weed yesterday morning, before the rain/humidity cycle started back up again. The garden (and weeds) are really enjoying this weather!
Read Last Week:
I am not quite done with The Living Great Lakes but I am so close! It is excellent, and I am so glad that I picked it up to read. It was a good balance to The Cloisters, which was so well done and well written, but it was also very dark and left me feeling very unsettled.
Reading This Week:
After The Cloisters I needed something lighter! I am diving into the world of cozy mysteries, starting with this magical bookshop series by Amanda Flower, then moving on to Gladwynn Grant Gets Her Footing.
Posted Last Week:
Wednesday Morning Coffee Catch Up
Watching and Listening:
Billy and I have been watching Death in Paradise still, and mixing it up with The Mayfair Witches. I read the heck out of Anne Rice as a teen/new adult and the Mayfair Witches was my absolute favorite by her. I loved the whole family history that was practically half of the book. Billy has been wanting to watch the show, and while I am watching it, I can’t help but compare it to the book. I will just keep telling myself it is in the spirit of the book and be happy with that. I had a real thing for New Orleans back then, and watching the show is sort of nostalgic for me, and rekindling that love. (Reading the Karen White books set there is also fueling that fire!) We visited about 6 times, the last time the week before Katrina, when she was still at sea. Far enough out that no one knew what was coming and too early for any evacuation warnings, just kind of out there, and weather forecasters knew about her. But to be there as a tourist right before then watch that devastation was … I can’t describe it. Tragically surreal. We haven’t been back but now I am thinking I need to go again.
Billy and I are also starting a summer shark watch – not real sharks although I have heard they are unusually active this summer – but movie sharks. We watched the all important Jaws on the fourth to kick us off, and next up is Deep Blue Sea.
As for listening, I had been listening to The Living Great Lakes but I had to return the audio book through Libby and now I am reading it.
And that is it from my corner of the world! How are you all doing?
Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs.. 
The Living Great Lakes sounds especially interesting to me (could it be because of my personal geography?) I’ll check that one out!
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It is fascinating and I think you would really love it – especially because you are a Michigander! It is so cool to hear about the author sailing on by the cities I have been to, the Michigan history, it is just really neat. They are “currently” in my area – they probably boated right on by one day when I was right here which is so funny to think about.
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After Demon Copperhead, I don’t want to read any more dark books for a while. I’m trying to focus on reading some kids’ adventure books to inspire my writing. But the cozy mysteries, especially Gladwynn Grant Gets Her Footing, look good.
I’m so glad you are enjoying The Living Great Lakes. And Summer Shark Watch sounds fun!
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Sometimes you definitely need a break from those books that are super heavy and dark. I read Crime and Poetry and I loved it! I am starting Gladwynn today, and I have a hold request at the library for the next in the Magical Bookshop series.
The Living Great Lakes is really interesting, and I love that I have been pretty much everywhere the author talks about.
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Sounds like a great week. I am curious about The Cloisters. I love the covers on the cozy mysteries.
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The Cloisters was so good but phew took it out of me. Lol. I am debating on how to review it. It has a ton of secrets within its pages and I don’t want to give anything away!
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Deep Blue Sea is one of those movies I’ll never get tired of! We’ve gotten some rain this week but not nearly as much as predicted. It’s that time of year where they just say thunderstorms almost every day. I wish we’d get one good one, though, so maybe the humidity will go down.
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We have thunderstorms predicted for all day today – it is dark and gloomy out there so I think we might get them. I think Wyatt and I will have a day of reading and sitting around and doing whatever today. Lol.
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It’s hot here with some thunderstorms in the late afternoon. The next 2 months are a survival thing of heat. But the other 10 months are awesome. At least the tomatoes, green beans and basil love the heat. We have a busy week ahead with more medical appts. I can’t believe the month will be half over. The holiday ate up a lot of “time”.
Anne – Books of My Heart This is my Sunday Post
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I know, I feel like that too, like where did July go already? Lol. I am sure your garden is going like crazy!
Good luck with all of the appointments! Those weeks are tough!
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I still need to read Poetry and Crime! I said I was going to read it last summer and I still haven’t. I hope you have a great week.
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It was really cute!! It was definitely the book I needed, something cozy and the town and the bookshop, and just all of it. I already put in a library request for the next one!
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The Living Great Lakes sounds excellent! I’m adding it to my list… the local library has the book available and I found the audio on hoopla. Does your library offer hoopla? There’s never any waiting, so it’s the best!
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Thank you for the tip that hoopla has it! I checked it out from Hoopla yesterday so I am going to be back to listening!
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Ooh The Cloisters looks like maybe a good spooky season read. And the rain here turned our lawn back green lol. We haven’t been watering and it was getting a bit dry.
Jaws! How fun
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It is definitely a very moody, twisty book! I could see reading it in spooky season.
Everything here is just sort of exploding from all the heat and the rain. It’s crazy.
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I also often need to find a way to balance the heavy reading material with something lighter. Your cozy mysteries seem like a great addition to my reading routine. Have a wonderful time reading!
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Yes! If I read something that is just heavy or intense or dark I need to balance it out without something lighter. I finished the Amanda Flower book yesterday and I loved it. I already have the next one on hold at the library! I am going to start Gladwynn today!
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We are hanging in there! I am going to add that Amanda Flower book to my TBR and maybe the Gladwynn one too. *wink*
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Lol!!
Thanks for recommending Amanda Flower. I finished this one last night and already have requested the next in the series.
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That’s what I did with her one series … now if I could only get book three!
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Oh is that the one you are still looking for? So frustrating!!
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Mums and Mayhem. Sigh.
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I have been reading Louise Penny and loving it. Her Armand Gamache is so good. Other than that, I haven’t been doing much. I will have to look for The Mayfair Witches. It sounds like something I would like.
Have a fabulous week…I hope you can join me for 10 on the 10th!
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I say all the time that I need to read her books!! I loved the short-lived TV series on Amazon – it looks like I am going to have to read her books in order to find out what happens since they cancelled it!
I highly recommend the Mayfair Witches!
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I love New Orleans and have spent a lot of time there but somehow have never read any Anne Rice! I did enjoy that Amanda Flowers series and really need to read more by her. I hope you’re having a great week!
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I have read all the vampire books by her, and all the witch and some of the werewolf series. Her Mayfair books are the best ones, in my opinion. Lol. 🙂
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