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Hello everyone! I hope that you are all doing well! We are finally experiencing a real Michigan fall here, with the blazing colors and cool temps, and I love it. It’s perfect weather for reading! I did get new glasses last week though, and I had ordered progressives because I was tired of taking my glasses on and off constantly (I need glasses to read) and I am having a hard time adjusting. Is this normal? I did buy a pair of $7 readers from Amazon that I wear at night when reading in bed, and I don’t need to transition or multi-task and that is helping, but I didn’t realize I could do that until near the end of the week. I had a hard time reading books with my “good” glasses and at least now I have these cheaters to help. I do really like my new glasses during the day, when I am cooking, etc because they do make my life easier that way.
Anyway, I didn’t get through the books I wanted to last week because of this adjustment period, so I am behind on my own self-imposed schedule. Lol. So this week I am reading hopefully two of these. We will see how it goes! Why did I have such an enormous spooky reading list??
I am sort of leaning towards The Bewitching and What Moves the Dead but we will see. What Moves the Dead is a retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher, and we are watching the Netflix series of Usher right now, so I sort of want to read that one. But then I am also sort of feeling the Lazy Bones Bookshop and Crazy Spooky Love. Ugh. Problems, problems. Lol.
Posted Last Week:
Mini Book Reviews: The Late-Night Witches, Falling Like Leaves, Uncharmed
Friday Morning Coffee Catch Up
Watching:
Billy and I have been watching the Netflix series of The Fall of the House of Usher, which is fantastic but I have to cover my eyes a lot. Mark Hamill is in it, and wow, his performance is amazing. I feel like he steals the show. You wouldn’t even know it was him! It is definitely not for the faint of heart though, and is very creepy and scary. It is a modern reworking of the Edgar Allan Poe story and the writers were so clever, and I love all the little hidden Poe easter eggs. (Roderick Usher Enterprises= R.U.E., etc)
When we need something not scary, we go to an old favorite, and watch the BBC series Victorian Farm. (we watch all of them all of the time, but right now, Victorian is the one we are rewatching)
We are also watching Halloween cartoons and movies with Wyatt, like Charlie Brown Halloween, and Coraline. I think tonight we will watch Hotel Transylvania, which is so cute, or Casper. It’s going to be a tough choice!
Lisa and I watched Coraline for our Comfy Cozy (creepy) Cinema last week, and this week we are going big with The Mummy, starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz. Then we settle back down into cozy.
Other Internet Happenings:
Lisa and I have also paused Crafternoons for the holidays, and will be resuming in January. We will start our Comfy Cozy Christmas in December, so stay tuned for that.
And that is it from me today! I hope that whatever you do today, you do something that makes you smile!
Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs.. 
Thanks for sharing these reads! They are perfect for the season!
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Thanks Katherine!
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I’ve had progressives for many years now and never had a problem with them, but for detail crafting and reading I take them off automatically 😉 My optician was so shocked when he saw me do that once!
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What is my problem? Why are they so hard for me? The top is just plain glass, I don’t need anything for far away, just up close. I keep moving my head all over the place to read. It’s like I am having a hard time, finding it? Finding the spot on my glasses where the reading part is? I am a dork obviously.
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I need to check out on Victorian Farm. Thinking about getting netflix next year. It may be a long, cold winter! But now is the time for spooky! I love my progressives, though I don’t need them for driving unless I really need to check the smaller street signs. Yeah, it’s crisper, but I see the big stuff fine without.
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We love all the BBC farm shows. My favorite is Edwardian. I think they might be on Amazon prime if you have that.
There must be something wrong with me. I don’t need them to see far at all, and I don’t wear them to drive, just read. But it’s nice to not have to take them on and off at a store or whatever. However, I feel like I am having a hard time finding the area on the glasses where the reading glasses start? I keep moving my head all over.
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Such great spooky reads. I just added a few of them to my want to read list
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Oh good!! And hello fellow Michigan Mom!
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Oh my gosh I love Comfy Cozy Christmas!!! Squeeeeeeeeal!!!! So excited!
*calming down*
I mean, looks like you had a lovely week. Looking forward to The Mummy this week. I can’t watch Hotel Transylvania again….Little Miss watches it and the other two all of the time! At least once or twice a month, all year round! We just watched it again last week.
Tonight we watched that Ichabod and Mr. Toad one from Disney. I’m too lazy to look up the full name.
Anyhoooo…. Comfy Cozy Christmas! Giggle!
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Lol! I am getting excited for it too! We are about to round the corner on Halloween and for me that means Christmas is coming! (although Billy gets annoyed I don’t seem to care about Thanksgiving..lol)
Lol! I had no idea she liked those movies that much! We haven’t watched it for a very long time around here, and Wyatt hasn’t seen it at all.
Sleepy Hollow? The Disney Sleepy Hollow? One of my favorites? Lol. And the Mr. Toad cartoon is before it.
Lol!
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thanksgiving-shmanksiving. Pffffft! Yes, the sleepy hollow one.
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Of your five book choices I think I’d also choose The Bewitching and What Moves the Dead! I’ve read other books by both authors and they were quite enjoyable. Can’t wait to see which you choose, though! 🙂
I hope your week ahead is a good one!
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I think that is what I am going with. I had read some of The Bewitching already and am anxious to get back to that story! Thank you Melissa!
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Oh yay! I hope you thoroughly enjoy it!
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I remember when I got my first pair of progressives, it seemed like the table was rippling like waves! But, it almost sounds like they didn’t get the bifocal part in the right place. I think I’d go back to the eye doctor and have them check. You shouldn’t be still having problems.
I just finished The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah. It was really good. It’s about the Dust Bowl and the migration (I said immigration on Lisa’s post…wrong) of people to California to find work. I was shocked at how they were treated. I’m hoping the book I just picked on my Libby app will be a little more lighthearted. But, gosh, I want to read that book by Silvia Moreno-Garcia…maybe, I should wait and see what you think of it! I loved Mexican Gothic.
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Ok thank you Marsha. I will set that up!
That book sounds amazing! But yes, definitely not very lighthearted. I have only read the first chapter, at that place, but I was really enjoying it. I am excited to go back to it! I will probably pick it up today at naptime. (Wyatt’s meds make him nap in the morning – ngl, it’s nice lol)
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