1. Denim Cap-Sleeve Shirt Dress
4. Scuba Seamed Knee-Length Dress
7. Classic Striped Versatile Casual Blouse
10. Prince George turns 11!
That's it for me this week. What's caught your eye?
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Waiting on Wednesday: Here One Moment
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature where I highlight a soon to be released novel I can't wait to read.
This week's pick: Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
Due out September 10, 2024
Synopsis taken from Amazon:
Aside from a delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed.
Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die. For some, their death is far in the future—age 103!—and they laugh. But for six passengers, their predicted deaths are not far away at all.
How do they know this? There were ostensibly more interesting people on the flight (the bride and groom, the jittery, possibly famous woman, the giant Hemsworth-esque guy who looks like an off-duty superhero, the frazzled, gorgeous flight attendant) but none would become as famous as “The Death Lady.”
Not a single passenger or crew member will later recall noticing her board the plane. She wasn’t exceptionally old or young, rude or polite. She wasn’t drunk or nervous or pregnant. Her appearance and demeanor were unremarkable. But what she did on that flight was truly remarkable.
A few months later, one passenger dies exactly as she predicted. Then two more passengers die, again, as she said they would. Soon no one is thinking this is simply an entertaining story at a cocktail party.
If you were told you only had a certain amount of time left to live, would you do things differently? Would you try to dodge your destiny?
Liane Moriarty’s Here One Moment is a brilliantly constructed tale that looks at free will and destiny, grief and love, and the endless struggle to maintain certainty and control in an uncertain world. A modern-day Jane Austen who humorously skewers social mores while spinning a web of mystery, Moriarty asks profound questions in her newest I-can’t-wait-to-find-out-what-happens novel.
Friday, July 19, 2024
Friday Five: Starting To See a Few Fall Things
4. Birkenstock Boston Chunky Clog
5. Gazelle Bold Platform Sneaker
6. Avec Les Filles Printed Patchwork Jacket
7. Coastal Stripe Tunic Sweater
8. High Rise Stride Metallic Wide-Leg Ankle Jeans
9. Strands - my new favorite word game
10. Princess Kate at Wimbledon
That's it for me this week. What's caught your eye?
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Waiting on Wednesday: The Anti-Heroes
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature where I highlight a soon to be released title I can't wait to read.
This week's pick: The Anti-Heroes by Jen Lancaster
Due out September 3, 2024
Synopsis taken from Amazon:
Once upon a time, Dr. Emily Nichols―the academic kind, not the physician kind―was an eco-crusader who was shot with water cannons, hunted by poachers, and chased by a bulldozer. Now? Action Emily lives in a bland condo with gray walls and teaches disengaged students at a university alongside a risk-allergic boyfriend, asking herself every day: How did I get here?
Then one afternoon Emily and her best friend, people-pleasing real estate agent Liv Bennett, witness an attempted robbery at their local coffee shop that is foiled by a yoga mom wielding a baby stroller. Their hero attributes her bravery to a mysterious class called Fearless, Inc. Its enigmatic and dizzyingly muscular instructor, Zeus, is now fully committed to helping Emily and Liv overcome their fears, too―one thrilling self-help lesson at a time.
Along with a ragtag group of other wimps, Emily and Liv must embrace the passionately unconventional methods of the leader to harness their powers, gain a bracing new perspective on life, act on their impulses, and be the no-holds-barred anti-heroes of their dreams.
Monday, July 15, 2024
Non Fiction Tuesday: Looking Ahead: The Small and the MIghty
I love adding to my TBR and there are so many great nonfiction books I can't wait to get my hands on.
This month's selection: The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed The Course of History, From the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement by Sharon McMahon
Due out: September 24, 2024
Synopsis taken from Amazon:
From America’s favorite government teacher, a heartfelt, inspiring portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country.
In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone operators. Not the aristocrats, but the schoolteachers. Through meticulous research, she discovers history’s unsung characters and brings their rich, riveting stories to light for the first time.
You’ll meet a woman astride a white horse riding down Pennsylvania Ave, a young boy detained at a Japanese incarceration camp, a formerly enslaved woman on a mission to reunite with her daughter, a poet on a train, and a teacher who learns to work with her enemies. More than one thing is bombed, and multiple people surprisingly become rich. Some rich with money, and some wealthy with things that matter more.
This is a book about what really made America – and Americans – great. McMahon’s cast of improbable champions will become familiar friends, lighting the path we journey in our quest to make the world more just, peaceful, good, and free.
Sunday, July 14, 2024
Monday Mini-Reviews: Missoula and Mysteries
We were in Missoula a couple of weeks ago visiting my brother-in-law and niece, so I didn't spend as much time online as I would have normally. I did enjoy some great books while I was gone and my husband and youngest two daughters ran the half marathon there while my oldest daughter, her fiance and I watched.
I've enjoyed reading through a variety of "favorites for the first half of 2024" posts on Instagram, but haven't created my own list. I've read 150 books this year, so picking only ten that are standouts seems impossible. There are a few genres of books I've been gravitating to lately: rom coms and mysteries.
These six mysteries/novels of suspense have all been hard to put down.
Love Letters To A Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell was easy to get into. Hannah starts writing an accused serial killer as he is in prison awaiting his trial. After losing her job, she heads to Georgia to attend the trial and starts doing her own research on who might really have committed the murders of several young women. She and William have shared letters back and forth and after he is acquitted of the murders, the two continue their relationship in person, while Hannah still tries to decide if William could actually be guilty of the crimes.
A Talent For Murder by Peter Swanson - Swanson is an author who I enjoy and this is no exception. Martha and Alan are newlyweds. They seem happy, but Martha has always felt as though she doesn't really know her new husband. Alan is often away for work and when Martha sees a spot of blood on his shirt after he returns home from a trip, she starts investigating if there have been any crimes that occurred during the times he has been in different cities. Suddenly Martha is suspecting that her husband is a murderer. This one is full of twists- some a little unbelievable. However, it's fast and will keep you turning pages.
The Unwedding by Ally Condie- Ellery travels solo to a resort in Big Sur where she had planned to spend her 20th wedding anniversary. Now, split up from her husband, Luke, Ellery is dealing with being single once more. Things at the resort are focused on a big wedding that's about to take place. But Ellery discovers the body of the groom floating in the pool. Before law enforcement is able to investigate, a mudslide makes roads impassable and the guests are trapped at the resort. This one was not my favorite. Although the premise was good, I found myself much more interested in Ellery's backstory which was slowly revealed throughout the novel.
The Nature of Disappearing by Kimi Cunningham Grant - I loved Grant's These Silent Woods and this one was hard to put down as well. Emlyn is living by herself in her trailer in Idaho. She no longer speaks to her best friend Janessa but when Janessa, a social media star, seems to have disappeared, Tyler, Emlyn's ex-boyfriend (and also Janessa's best friend while growing up), shows up and wants Emlyn's help finding her. This story moves back and forth in time periods, slowly revealing what happened between Emlyn and Tyler.
How The Light Gets In by Louise Penny is the ninth in her Three Pines series. I have slowly been working my way through these books and the further into the series I get, the more I love them. This installment deals with Beauvoir's addiction to drugs and at this point he and Gamache no longer are speaking. Gamache is busy trying to figure out what happened to an elderly woman who was killed in her home - and upon further investigation it is revealed that she was one of a famous set of quintets. And there is another more sinister mystery occurring as well as Gamache is able to uncover corruption in the police force.
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman - this is the first in a series and as usual, I expect it will grow on me more as the series develops. Four septuagenarians at a retirement community meet weekly to discuss unsolved crimes. They, along with a female cop who is on her first big case, work together to solve a murder. These characters are fun and I'm excited to read the next one in this series as well as watch them as they are now in production.
We've got a couple college visits scheduled for today with my youngest daughter. Since my husband is going along, I am packing several books with the hopes that I can enjoy a few more great books.
Friday, July 12, 2024
Friday Five
After a week of rather pleasant temps, things are heating up here. I do love the hot weather, but I'm not always a fan of the humidity.
I haven't seen any fall clothing yet, but I'm still finding plenty to share. Enjoy!
4. Italian Summer Olive Green Linen Button-Up Short Sleeve Dress
5. Dalair Tan Embroidered Buckled Flatform Slide Sandal
6. Aly Puff-Sleeve Blouse by Pilcro: Chambray Edition
7. The Colette Cropped Wide Leg Pant by Maeve
9. Chuck Taylor All Star Floral Tapestry
10. Collins Top
That's it for me this week. What's caught your eye?
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Waiting on Wednesday: Katharine, The Wright Sister
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature where I highlight a soon to be released novel I can't wait to read.
This week's pick: Katharine, The Wright Sister by Tracey Enerson Wood
Due out September 10, 2024
Synopsis take from Amazon:
She helped her brothers soar… but was the flight worth the fall?
It all started with two boys and a bicycle shop. Wilbur and Orville Wright, both unsuited to college and disinclined to leave home, jumped on the popular new fad of bicycle riding and opened a shop in Dayton, Ohio. Repairing and selling soon led to tinkering and building as the brothers offered improved models to their eager customers. Amid their success, a new dream began to take shape. Engineers across the world were puzzling over how to build a powered flying machine―and Wilbur and Orville wanted in on the challenge. But their younger sister, Katharine, knew they couldn't do it without her. The three siblings made a pact: the three of them would solve the problem of human flight.
As her brothers obsessed over blueprints and risked life and limb testing new models on the sand beaches of North Carolina, Katharine became the mastermind behind the scenes of their inventions. She sourced materials, managed communications, and kept Wilbur and Orville focused on their goal―even when it seemed hopeless. And in 1903, the Wright brothers made the first controlled, sustained flight of humankind.
What followed was the kind of fame and fortune the Wrights had never imagined. The siblings traveled the world to demonstrate their invention, trained other pilots, and built new machines that could fly higher and farther. But at the height of their success, tragedy wrenched the Wright family apart… and forced Katharine to make an impossible choice that would haunt her for the rest of her life.
From internationally bestselling author Tracey Enerson Wood, Katharine, the Wright Sister is an unforgettable novel that shines a spotlight on one of the most important and overlooked women in history, and the sacrifices she made so that others might fly.
Friday, July 5, 2024
Friday Five: Summer Sales Are Happening
Over the Fourth I started seeing sales for some of the items I've been looking at for a while. I've only ordered a couple items, but I'm using great restraint.
Here are the things I've found this week:
2. Short Sleeve Crinkle Satin Maxi Dress
3. One Shoulder Traveler Mini Dress
4. Essential Vintage Sunday Half-Zip
6. Frayed Boyfriend Shorts in Washed Black Wash
7. Forever Soft Sarong MiniDress
8. Banff National Park Sweatshirt
9. Baum and Pferdgarten Casie Ashleigh Crochet Mini Dress
10. Sprint on Netflix
That's it for me this week. What's caught your eye?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)