Sunday, July 24, 2022

Lovely Books and Things - 7.24.22

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. Almost done with covid experience (halfway - i think, i hope)
2. Home made veggie soup from friend, thanks M!
3. Angalo, filipino jazz band, outdoor show at Noise
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Library:
New Animal
by Ella Baxter
Literary, Australia | Published: 2022 | Goodreads


Library: audiobook
The Summer I Turned Pretty
by Jenny Han
YA, Romance | Published: 2009 | Goodreads


Ugly Love
by Colleen Hoover
New Adult, Romance | Published: 2014 | Goodreads


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Virtual Author event: hosted by KQED

Orwell's Roses
by Rebecca Solnit
Essays, Nature | Published: 2021 | Goodreads

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AND watched: Netflix
Persuasion (2022)
Director: Carrie Cracknell
Screenplay: Ron Bass, Alice Victoria Winslow
Based on book: Jane Austen
Stars: Dakota Johnson, Cosmo Jarvis
Drama, Romance | imdb | my rating: 5
not our Anne, but loved it for what it was

Eight years after Anne Elliot was persuaded not to marry a dashing man of humble origins, they meet again. Will she seize her second chance at true love?

AND watched: YouTube
Pride and Prejudice, Cut (2019)
aka Becoming Ms. Bennet Director: Michael Kampa
Screenplay: Elizabeth Snoderly, Erin Murphy West
Based on book: Jane Austen
Stars: Lexi Giovagnoli, David Witts
Drama, Romance | imdb | my rating: 5
a fun P&P story in a P&P adaptation

A popular American vlogger is cast in a British film production of 'Pride and Prejudice', but struggles with her accent.

AND watched: DVD
Sanditon (2019)
season 1
Creator: Andrew Davies
Based on book by: Jane Austen
Stars: Rose Williams, Theo James
Drama, Romance, Jane Austen | imdb | my rating: 5
every episode ends with an upset, the ultimate hook

About Charlotte Heywood, a spirited and impulsive woman, who moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a seaside resort.

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