Lovely Books and Things - 7.10.22

Lovely Books and Things
My Weekly Books and Films Update

Linking up with:
Mailbox Monday (details)
Stacking the Shelves (details)
Sunday Post (details)
Sunday Salon (details)

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HAPPY THINGS:

1. Browsing at a local needlework shop, San Francisco School of Needlework & Design (here)
2. Enjoying a Hot Fudge Sundae from Ghiradelli Square (here)
3. Coming close to the end of the Stitching Book Club Narnia cross stitch project

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Bought:

The Spanish Love Deception
by Elena Armas
Contemporary, Romance, New Adult | Published: 2021 | Goodreads
Library: audiobook

Murder in Montmartre
by Cara Black
Mystery, Paris | Published: 2007 | Goodreads
for Paris in July (details)

The Wolf and the Watchman
by Niklas Natt Och Dag
Mystery, Historical, Sweden | Published: 2017 | Goodreads
Library:

Deck the Donuts
by Ginger Bolton
Mystery, Cozy, Christmas, Cat, Wisconsin | Published: 2021 | Goodreads
Happy Christmas in July!
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Virtual Author event: hosted by SF Public Library
See archive of this (here)

Last Night at the Telegraph Club
by Malinda Lo
Historical, LGBTQ, YA | Published: 2021 | Goodreads
Virtual Author event: hosted by bookreporter
See archive of this (here)

The Shore
by Katie Runde
Contemporary, Romance, LGBTQ, Summer, Jersey shore | Published: 2022 | Goodreads
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AND watched: theatre

Don't Make Me Go (2022)
Director: Hannah Marks
Writer: Vera Herbert
Stars: John Cho, Mia Isaac
Drama | imdb | my rating: 4
tugs at the heart
When a single father to a teenage daughter learns that he has a fatal brain tumor, he takes her on a road trip to find the mother who abandoned her years before and to try to teach her everything she might need over the rest of her life.

Elvis (2022)
Director/Screnplay: Baz Luhrmann
Screenplay: Sam Bromell, Craig Pearce, Jeremy Doner
Stars: Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge
Biography, Drama, Music | imdb | my rating: 5
stick around for the end credits to hear more of the incredible soundtrack
and see beautiful artwork which (I think) may have been inspired by Elvis and
his array of bejeweled buckles and belts
Elvis is Baz Luhrmann's biopic of Elvis Presley, from his childhood to becoming a rock and movie star in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.

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* comment and TELL me what you have acquired for your shelves recently

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