My Weekly Books and Films Update
Linking up with:
Sunday Post (details)
Mailbox Monday (details)
HAPPY THINGS:
1. Yummy dinner outings to celebrate my birthday
2. Preparing and creating post for arm-chair book traveling to Paris, France ;-)
3. Monthly chocolate happy hour at Fog City News!
It poses here with Angie Kim's Miracle Creek which I picked up a couple weeks ago and the program for the CAAMfest37.
May pick:
chocolate - SOMA chocolate based in Canada
Crazy 88, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, 88%
Origin: Costa Esmeraldas, Ecuador + Ucayali. Peru + Canoabo, Venezuela
Cacao content: 88%
Tasting notes: black tea, balsamic vinegar, fresh cream, lemon, jasmine, apricot, walnut
description:
Canoabo Ucayali. Hacienda victoria. if these names mean something to you then you are on of us: nutty. cacao-obsessed. and ready to infiltrate the world of chocolate flavor.
Crazy 88s seek out the best cacao from all over the globe.
Secret mission: to skillfully blend different origins to make a potent, and beautifully nuanced extra dark chocolate.
Crazy 88 is our secret flavour weapon.
Crazy 88 ninjas cast a shadow in the form of a cat.
Updated posts:
Hamburger post includes an extra picture of something I found (here)
Bloom post includes a picture of what I created inspired by Martha Stewart Living magazine (here)
Author event:
Bookshop in West Portal hosted a celebratory event (with some bubbly) to cheer for Cara Black's 19th book in the Aimee Leduc mystery series. Fellow mystery writer, Jacqueline Winspear was also in the house for a conversation and Q&A with Cara.
by Cara Black
-Mystery, Paris | Goodreads
by Jacqueline Winspear
-Mystery, Historical, WWII | Goodreads
Library:
by Adriana Mather
-Mystery, Thriller, YA | Goodreads
HYPE got me curious about this one. Listening to the audio version.
AND watched: in theatre
Director/Writer: Ash Mayfair
Stars: Long Le Vu, Mai Thu Huong Maya, Nguyen Phuong Tra My
-Drama | imdb | my rating: 5
19th century rural Vietnam, fourteen-year-old May is ready to become the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Little did she know that her hidden desires will take her by surprise and force her to make a choice between living in safety and being free.
LOVED the lush scenes and scenery of daily living in the country.
Director: Olivia Wilde
Writers: Susanna Fogel, Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Katie Silberman
Stars: Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein
-Comedy, High School | imdb | my rating: 5
On the eve of their high school graduation, two academic superstars and best friends realize they should have worked less and played more. Determined not to fall short of their peers, the girls try to cram four years of fun into one night.
SUPER fun ensemble cast. Light and comedic side of high school.
AND watched: in theatre for SF DocFest (here)
Director/Writer: Sheona McDonald
Star: Candida Royalle
-Documentary, Biography | imdb | my rating: 4
Now a sexagenarian, adult performer Candida Royale tells her story as a "godmother of feminist porn," who began thirty years ago to direct films of her own focusing on women's sexual enjoyment.
WHAT a lady, what a life. She rocks!
* comment and TELL me what you have acquired for your shelves recently
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