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Hello everyone! I hope you all had a good week! Ours was pretty good. We had trips to the library, ice cream, reading and sewing, dinner out, walks and bikes rides. It was just a really nice summer week. Today we are having our Full Blueberry Moon party with Mermaid Girl and I am looking forward to that as well. (This is a moon we decided to name ourselves- as far as I know this isn’t one of the names for the July full moon)
Read Last Week:
I love this series! I love Violet and the tree and the bookshop and Emerson. Just all of it really. I like to read them in the season that they are set so by waiting it is sort of like a treat! I have to wait now all the way until winter to read the next in the series.
Reading This Week:
Ooo I have been saving this one too and I am so excited to read it. I started it yesterday and was instantly immersed in this world. This cover is so gorgeous! My dad bought me a copy when we went shopping a few weeks ago and I love the cover and the design and I have a really good feeling that I will love this book.
Posted Last Week:
Tuesday Morning Coffee Catch Up
A Cozy Little Life – In Our Hobbies Era
Book Reviews – A Few Quick Mini Book Reviews
Watching:
We have been watching a few different things this week! We watched The Great British Sewing Bee, finished up season 2 of Dark Winds, and started Reservation Dogs.
Dark Winds is so well done. Billy and I are always hit by how well acted and just how good of a story it is when we watch. It gets intense and and emotional for me as well, as the show touches on the injustices done to the Native Americans that started so long ago and continues today. The show itself takes place during the Vietnam War, and there was a scene where one young man was being shipped off to do his duty, and he doesn’t want to go. He expresses to Bernie his reluctance to go, saying why should he fight for a country that “doesn’t even recognize me as an American”. Oof. And then the involuntary sterilizations that happened in the clinics – all such powerful, gut wrenching truths. It is not light watching. I have not read the books that they are based on by Tony Hillerman but I have been considering reading them.
Zahn McClarnon is in both Dark Winds and Reservation Dogs, and plays two very different law enforcement characters. I have loved him since I saw him in Longmire as Matthias, and it is interesting to see him in Dark Winds as just a force of strength and then in Reservation Dogs, where he is playing a more humorous, silly cop character.
And that is it from me this week! What is going on in your neighborhood?
Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs.. 
It looks like you have the right book for a full blueberry moon! I bought the sweetest blueberries at the market yesterday — they are delicious and now I’m wishing I’d bought an extra quart to freeze! So much sweeter than most of the grocery store berries.
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Bike rides, walks, ice cream, trips to the library—it sounds like a perfect summer week!
I look forward to seeing what you think about The Berry Pickers.
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I’m inteested in the Blueberry Pickers. Had not heard of Dark Winds…will check it out. thanks for your visit to my place 🙂
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Both Dark Winds and Reservation Dogs are on my To Be Watched list. It looks like I might want to push them a bit higher.
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It sounds like you’re having a great summer! I love those book covers. Have a great week ahead!
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We started Dark Winds and need to get back to it. I need to look that Amanda Flower series up!
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I had the first book of Amanda Flower’s series and could never bring myself to read it (in 2ish years). I finally gave it to my son but he hasn’t read it yet either, LOL! I am just not a magical or cozy mystery reader. Have a great week!
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That sounds like a PERFECT summer week and your son looks like he’s enjoying it all.
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You are doing all the great summer things. I’d like to have a week of that instead medical appts but that’s what we have for this week. On the plus side, September – December the weather is really gorgeous here.
Anne
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It sounds like you had a wonderful summer week! Ice cream and a library visit, plus dinner out! Love that cover for The Berry Pickers! Hope the story is just as good! Have a lovely week, Erin!
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I love me some ice cream, especially during summer. 😀 I hope you have fun with your full moon celebration. 😀 Have a great week and thanks for stopping by my blog!
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Wyatt is a huge fan of ice cream too! And thank you! We had a great time last night!
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The Berry Pickers looks really good! I love how you celebrate the full moons and include Mermaid Girl. I haven’t finished The Great British Sewing Bee because I’m watching the current episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race. I like to stretch it out for a few days! Oh, that series sounds good, but I need uplifting right now. I know I need to watch things to educate myself, but not right now! I loved Longmire, but I hated the last episode! I will put this show on my to-watch list, though.
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The Berry Pickers is so good so far. I am apparently fully immersed in Indigenous culture right now; I am going to need a lighthearted breather after we finish our shows and I finish this book.
And yes, right now you need RuPaul and the Sewing Bee!
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I’ve seen a lot of love for the Berry Pickers on the book blogs I follow; hopefully you’ll enjoy it, too. I cleaned the house and we also sorted out some stuff in the garden yesterday, feels good to have things more under control. I just read a very silly book by local comedian Joe Lycett, from 2016, when he was a lot less famous than he is now! (he’s so local, he lives within a mile of me!).
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It is fantastic so far. I don’t see it going downhill either.
Oh my gosh!! We love that guy – he was the host for a few seasons on The Sewing Bee!! How cool that you live near him!
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Of course you’ll know him from that!!
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The Berry Pickers cover gives me all the heart-eyes every time I see it. Can’t wait to hear your thoughts when you finish reading!
Great British Sewing Bee?! Oh now I must hunt this down … I’ve quite a soft spot for the British contests (especially Bakes, but also Pottery Throw Down).
Our week looks to be overcast and rainy – YAY! 😀 – with a book club, a breakfast date, and hopefully some fall garden prep work 🙂
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Oh my gosh it is so beautifully written but it is also emotionally wrecking me. Lol. It’s so good but makes me cry!
It is excellent and it is so wholesome and happy like all the other British contests. You may need to use a VPN to get it.
You sound like me!!! Today we are supposed to get rain and storms and I am so happy. And book club and a breakfast date both sound wonderful!
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