shark week – Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs..

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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:

Summer Shark Watch: Jaws!

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?

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Kathryn at Book Date

Hello everyone! Another week, and here we are in July already! We are off to a rainy start this July and that is ok, Michigan needs it. We also were dodging extremely unhealthy air quality last week and spent so much time inside. We were among the worst in the world for air quality – it blows my mind that a fire 500 miles from us could have effects here but it shows how small the world really is sometimes.

Read Last Week:

We read more Wyatt books than mine last week, since we were trapped inside. I did manage to read one, and started listening to another.

I have been waiting and waiting for The House on Prytania to come in for me at the library and let me tell you, when I got the email, I headed directly there and did not pass go. It was so good, y’all~ I love Nola and Beau, but the other characters are just as interesting and fun to read. Jolene in particular is a hoot!

I also started listening to The Living Great Lakes on Libby, and I am really enjoying it! I mean, living in the Great Lakes state it is of particular interest to me, and I am learning so much about the lakes as I listen.

Reading This Week:

I am so excited to read this! I bought it all the way back in January but have held onto it until summer, because I am a nerd and since the book takes place in the summer, I wanted to read it in the summer. It sounds so good!

Posted Last Week:

Hello July!

What Wyatt’s Reading

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Tuesday Morning Coffee Catch Up

Watching/Listening:

In TV land, Billy and I got sucked into the world of School Spirits. We were expecting something a bit cheesier or just not as well done as it is, for what it is. It is so good! And now we are out of episodes which is a huge bummer. I love Simon and Wally, such good characters!

We also have been filling in here and there with Death in Paradise, and we are on the Humphrey episodes. We had just watched Beyond Paradise in the spring, which is about Humphrey who is back in England after his stint on the islands so it was neat to go back and rewatch his origins again.

This week we also start our shark month movie marathon! Well, I guess not really marathon since we are spreading them out over a few weeks, but still..lots of shark movies beginning with Jaws on Tuesday!

In my YouTube world, I have been watching a lot of With Love, Kristina, and Alexis Dahl. With Love, Kristina does a lot of vintage (mostly vintage) videos but also declutter videos which are my weakness. They are so relaxing, just to watch things go from super cluttery to all nice and organized. Sigh. Alexis Dahl is a Michigander whose videos are all about science and history and they are awesome! I loved her most recent video about Henry Ford’s “utopian” towns in the U.P. It was so fascinating!

I already mentioned that I am listening to the audiobook of The Living Great Lakes by Jerry Dennis, which is fantastic. I have also been listening to the podcast Sinisterhood, which is true crime/horror but the two hosts Christina and Heather are hysterical and I actually laugh out loud at some of their comments. So far I have really enjoyed their episodes The Stanley Hotel and The Nain Rouge, which is a total Detroit thing!