Lovely Books and Things - 4.5.20

Lovely Books and Things
My Weekly Books and Films Update
Linking up with:
Sunday Post (details)
Mailbox Monday (details)

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HAPPY THINGS:

1. Yummy new cooking recipe - creamy Cauliflower Cashew Soup (here)

2. Getting the creativity flowing - working on completing projects (embroidery for 25 million stitches project, crochet throw blanket and knit cardigan sweater) previously started

3. Spotting something new in Golden Gate Park - a wheel thing, SkyStar - a traveling ferris wheel ride originally set to open in April, but now, who knows when???

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KEEPING IN TOUCH WITH BOOKSTORES AND AUTHORS

Book Passages Conversations with Authors:
Live sessions with the writers and thinkers most committed to America’s independent bookstores

The sessions start this weekend 7:00est/4:00pst.

Check out the author line-up (here)

For Review:

The Sweeney Sisters
by Lian Dolan
courtesy of publisher - Thanks!
-Women's Fiction | Goodreads

Bought:

Duke Darcy's Castle
(Dare to Defy #3)
by Syrie James
-Romance, Historical | Goodreads

Little Gods
by Meng Jin
-Historical, Literary, China | Goodreads

AND watched: on DVD

The Third Man (1949)
Director: Carol Reed
Screenplay and based on book by: Graham Greene
Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli
-Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | imdb | my rating: 5
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.

AWESOME classic. Watched this in preparation for a Vienna trip which got postponed this month. Gave us ideas to take photos with a Dutch angle when we do finally go ;-)
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