Books, Screens, and In-Betweens

On By Erin @ Cracker Crumb LifeIn Uncategorized

I am linking up with Deb at Readerbuzz,  Kathryn at Book Date, and  Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer.

Hello everyone! I hope that you are doing well today! It looks like today is going to be a beautiful day for Father’s Day here. I am not quite sure what we are going to do, but we will do something.

Books:

So, I read Yesteryear and I am still processing it. It was a lot! I am still not even sure if I enjoyed it yet. It was very heavy and intense, and made me sad. I ended up reading The Last Resort afterwards to scrub my brain out afterwards, and it was a good choice. Review for Yesteryear coming soon. I may end up doing a spoiler video on YouTube to go with it, because I have things to say but I don’t want to put them in my review.

This week I am not sure what I am reading. I have two I am thinking about though. Maybe I will start with How to Survive Camping and move on to The Growing Summer.

Screens:

We finished up Widow’s Bay which was awesome. I was so bummed when we ran out of episodes!! We have moved on to Murder Most Puzzling, which I learned about from Lisa at Boondock Ramblings. We watched the first episode and really enjoyed it!

I mentioned that we are watching old fun movies from the 80s and 90s with Wyatt, and last Sunday we watched The Sandlot. It was so good. It is such an iconic summer movie. Billy said that was almost identical to how his summers were as a kid though, just hopping on his bike and running around town with his buddies all day long.

And who can forget this line? I say it at least once a day, still. Lol.

I didn’t post very much last week.

Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Wishlist – Thank you to the two bloggers, Nicky @ The Bibliphibian and Carrie at Reading is My Superpower, who were so generous and gifted me books! That was so very nice of you and made my week!

Thursday Morning Coffee Catch Up

And just a reminder: Lisa of Boondock Ramblings and I host a monthly bookish link party called A Good Book and A Cup of Tea.. Recently Cat at Cat’s Wire joined up with us as a co-host as well! This link-up is for book and reading posts or anything related to books and reading (even movies based on books!). Each link party will be open for a month. You can find that link up for this month here.

In-Betweens:

Yesterday we went on our first picnic of the summer! This was something we started during lockdown and the pandemic, and it has become just something we do now. We found a great spot at the park, which even on the hottest summer days is cool under the shade of the trees. We usually draw or color or paint and then one of us will decide we need to lay down for a bit because it is so relaxing. Then eventually the rest of us lie down too and just watch the leaves flutter in the wind and the sunlight play across the ground, while the birds sing. It is just so peaceful.

And I think that is all from me today! I hope that whatever you do today, you do something that makes you smile!

44 thoughts on “Books, Screens, and In-Betweens”

  6. Aw, cute photos!

    I’ve been curious about Yesteryear just because everyone seems to have a lot of thoughts about it! It doesn’t sound like my thing, but at the same time… well, curious!

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  12. Yay for picnics! It looks like a beautiful spot for a picnic, too. I kinda wished I hadn’t read Yesteryear after I read it, but I also kinda wish people who think they want to live that primitive lifestyle might read it before they try to take it on. It’s much, much harder than it might appear.

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  14. Oh, you do have me curious about Yesteryear. I may have to read it just so we can talk about it. I finished a book I used to read to my fourth graders and am reading another by the same author, Richard Peck. If you haven’t read any of his books, you might want to. They are hilarious and yet have a bit of a lesson in them. We watched the movie, Michael, which is about Michael Jackson. I’m still so torn about him. I may do a blog post, if I get brave enough.

    I love picnics. Maybe I should make Mike go on one. He could use his walker to get to the picnic table at one of the parks. Thanks for the idea!

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  15. Rachel @Waves of Fiction's avatar Rachel @Waves of Fiction

    I don’t know if I’ll read Yesteryear, but I have it on hold at my library. I hear the characters are pretty unlikable. We just watched a 90s movie over the weekend while in Montana: Twister. The original one and it was still really good! Have a great week!

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  18. You’ll need to read something very positive to get Natalie out of your system. The Growing Summer looks good. Great to see Wyatt out and on a picnic. Enjoy your week.

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  20. Yesteryear was indeed a trip. Do you think you will watch the series when it airs? Ann Hathaway is playing Natalie and I think I will give it a shot. My god she was unlikeable but then, try and find a character who was likeable!
    We’ve not wacthed the Sandlot in decades. Great movie and our son loved it.

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  22. I do love a lazy picnic afternoon!

    My husband and I visited a really foggy lighthouse while we were down in Green Bay a few weeks ago. It was really weird because just a couple of miles inland, the sun was shining and it was 20 degrees warmer. I sent the foggy lighthouse picture to my aunt and uncle and they texted back to say that now we need to watch Widow’s Bay. I seem to be running into it everywhere now and I’d never heard of it before! I later listened to a review of it on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour. When I listened to that review, the plot of Widow’s Bay sounded like a secondary character’s story arc in Resident Alien, which we love. That felt like another coincidence steering us to watch it. We don’t have Apple TV at the moment but I know we’ll resubscribe when the new season of Ted Lasso drops, so we’ll watch Widow’s Bay then.

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  23. Noel Streatfeild, hooray! And Ardizzone illustrations, too! I’m only running a bit late on blog reading so you have a LOT of eager readers and commenters … Love the picnic and long for cool myself right now (I am going to a bookshop event this evening, the bookshop has aircon and is only 10 minutes’ walk away but that walk seems a LONG way right now!).

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