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Hello everyone! I’m a wee bit later posting today but that is ok! I am still working on smoothing out our schedule and routine now that school has started for us again. I will get there.. lol.
Read Last Week:
Murders and Metaphors by Amanda Flower was a perfect little read. I read a few heavy books in a row, and I needed something cozy and easily digestible. I love this series about a magical bookshop, a wandering cat, a literary crow – and of course, the characters as well!
Reading This Week:
Put Out To Pasture, another Amanda Flower cozy. This one takes place in Northern Michigan though, one of my favorite places. I am looking forward to reading this one this week!
Posted Last Week:
Comfy Cozy Cinema: The African Queen (if you would like to watch along, I have a printable list available on the post!)
Tuesday Morning Coffee Catch Up : Van Gogh and Ghosts
Book Review: Warrior Girl Unearthed
Watching:
Billy and I are watching along with the Comfy Cozy Cinema schedule that I co-host with Lisa at Boondock Ramblings, and last week we watched The African Queen. Up tonight on the schedule is Arsenic and Old Lace and I am super excited. I’ve been waiting for this one. (Post will be live on Thursday, post with us if you would like! We will have a linky!)
We are also watching This Farming Life which I love. We watched all previous seasons and were wondering if there was going to be a new one, and we were so happy to see a new season available on BritBox! We have our favorite farmers – I love Joanna, she cracks me up and is so real. And so me if I were to become a farmer by way of marriage.
We have been absolutely obsessed with this next show – Dark Winds. It is produced by Robert Redford and George R. R. Martin and is simply amazing. The cinematography, the acting, the storyline- phenomenal. We have watched our way through Season 1 and will start Season 2 tomorrow. We are in awe of the landscape as well – all that desert, rocks, dirt, wide open spaces. So very different from what we see in our everyday, or even as we explore greater Michigan aside from our little corner. We are a water state, the Great Lakes State, and we are never more than six miles from a body of water anywhere we go in Michigan, so to think of a place that is probably the complete opposite of ours seems so foreign. One day we would love to see the desert, and spend some time exploring those wide open spaces.
And that is it from me today! I hope you are all having a great weekend!
Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs.. 
I love it whenever a book is set in northern Michigan! I’m loving Dark Winds as well!
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Me too!! To both of your statements! Lol.
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Thank you for sharing. I love reading Amanda Flower’s books. I’ve read “Put Out to Pasture” and really enjoyed it. I don’t recall reading Murders and Metaphors yet. Will need to add it to my TBR list.
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I am really enjoying Put Out to Pasture! She is such a fun author to read.
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I love those old movies! Yesterday it rained all day and it felt cozy since I could wear a long sleeve shirt.
Anne – Books of My Heart This is my Sunday Post
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I never watched too many classic old movies which is weird because my mom is a movie buff. I guess I just didn’t watch too many with her! I did watch musicals with her though – I still love them. 🙂 Glad you had some rain for your garden and a cozy weather day!
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Those Amanda Flower books look so good. I’m reminded that I need to push her higher in my TBR. Hope you have a great week!
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I love her! I like the Magical Bookshop Series a bit more than the farming one, but I do enjoy them both. 🙂
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I need to watch Dark Winds! I’ve been seeing it around. Glad to hear it’s been a hit. And yes, I do need lighter reads to break up the heavier ones too. Have a wonderful week, Erin!
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I can’t read heavy books one right after another all the time, I get weighed down. Lol. Dark Winds is very good, I highly recommend it!
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Wow, that stat about being never more than six miles from a body of water! Having said that, I’m 1.1 miles from one lake and 2 from another, although they’re English park lakes so not quite the same! Have a good week. I’m back at work after my week off for Covid but still not feeling great, so we’ll see how this goes!
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We are surrounded by bodies of water in this state! Not just the Great Lakes, but within the state. I live right off the Detroit River, which runs between Lake Huron and Lake Erie.
Oh no! I am sorry to hear that you had Covid, but I am glad you are doing better and are back at work. Just take your time and rest when you get home!
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I really like the idea of your Comfy Cozy Cinema. My husband and I are working on creating a list of movies we want to watch or watch again.
I read and enjoyed the second book in the Magical Bookshop series, Pros and Cons, when our book club decided that we should each read a cozy.
Have a great week!
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Ooo fun!! I always have some sort of list going like that. Lol. We really need to make one for the tv shows we want to watch.
It’s a fun series. 🙂
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Hope the cat and that raven get along, the ones on the cozy book cover. Have a good week.
Harvee at https://bookdilettante.blogspot.com
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Well..they have a sort of antagonistic relationship but it works. LOL
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Amanda Flower has written quite a few cozies in quite a few series. It is hard to keep up with her. Your movies all sound good too. Come see my week here. Happy reading!
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She does! I looked them up the other day and I couldn’t believe how many she has. Lol.
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For several years running, we watched Arsenic and Old Lace on Halloween. A fun movie while waiting for trick-or-treaters. Fortunately, the trick-or-treating was always done by the time we got to the really scary parts.
This Farming Life looks fun. When I think about farming in Britain, I immediately think of The Archers, the world’s longest running soap opera. It’s a radio show and, in modern times, a podcast. Each episode is less than 15 minutes. I get a kick out of checking in with my characters every night.
I’ve written about The Archers a couple of times on my blog, most recently for the 70th anniversary of the show: https://www.joyweesemoll.com/2021/01/08/the-archers-70th-anniversary-radioreview-brifri/
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That is such a great idea to watch it at Halloween! I had no idea what this movie was like when I chose it, and I am so glad that I did. I loved it.
This Farming Life is just so relaxing and wholesome. I will have to check out your post and the episodes!
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Those sound like really cute and cozy books for fall!
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Thanks Joanne!
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I keep hearing about Dark Winds but have no clue what it’s about. I should Google it.
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Jinjer it is so good!!! It takes place in the 70s and is based on the Leaphorn and Chee books.
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Dark Winds is good. We will be getting back to it soon, I hope.
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It’s so good!! I am glad that you like it too!
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These sound like really good books, but I’m really interested in that show, Dark Winds. I’m going to have to find it so we can watch it! Have a fantastic week, Erin!
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It is amazing, for reals. We can’t stop watching it!
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