Lovely Books and Things - 9.29.19

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. Ed Hardy: Deeper than Skin art exhibit with his piece of 2,000 dragons at the deYoung museum

2. Monthly chocolate happy hour at Fog City News! -got truffles this time around as the tasting was a repeat for local chocolate artisans, 9th and Larkin

3. Indian summer with warm autumn colored evening skies

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Bought:

The Execution of Justice
by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
-Mystery, Austria | Goodreads
FOR my face-to-face group, Foreign Mystery Book Club - November pick.

Monthly chocolate happy hour at Fog City News!
September pick: Oktoberfest truffles

Library:

Swiss Vendetta
(Agnes Luthi Mysteries #1)
by Tracee de Hahn
-Mystery, Switzerland | Goodreads
FOR my face-to-face group, Foreign Mystery Book Club - October pick.

The Handmaid's Tale:
The Graphic Novel
by Renée Nault (Adapter, Artist)
based on novel by Margaret Atwood
-Dystopia, Graphic Novel | Goodreads
REFRESH my memory before reading the sequel, The Testaments by Margaret Atwood.

Celebrate ¡VIVA! Annual Celebration of Latino Hispanic Heritage:

Dinner
by César Aira
-Novella, Zombies, Argentina| Goodreads

Gods of Jade and Shadow
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
-Fantasy, Historical, Mythology, Mexico | Goodreads

The Shape of the Ruins
by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
-Literary, Historical, Columbia| Goodreads

Freebie: from Free Little Library

Sing To It
by Amy Hempel
-Short Stories, Literary | Goodreads
COVER love and heard good things about this one.

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

Thanks for stopping by :-)

Foreign Intrigue Book Club 2019

Foreign Intrigue Book Club
face-to-face (details)
Books, Inc. Laurel Village
Do you like to travel? Experience a country through the eyes of a local? Try the food of another country?

2019

December & January pick:

Six Four
by Hideo Yokoyama
translated by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies
-Mystery, Thriller, Japan
Goodreads | my review | my rating: 4
February pick:

The Master Key
by Masako Togawa
translated by Simon Grove
-Mystery, Thriller, Japan
Goodreads | my review | my rating: 5

March pick:

The Widows of Malabar Hill
by Sujata Massey
-Mystery, Historical, India | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 5
April pick:

The Hole
by Hye-Young Pyun
-Mystery, Horror, Korea | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 5
May pick:

Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
by Mario Giordano
-Mystery, Italy, Sicily | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 5
June pick:

Shadows on the Lake
(Commissario Stefania Valenti #1)
by Giovanni Cocco, Amneris Magella
-Mystery, Historical, Italy, Lake Como | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 4
July pick:

Death in Brittany
by Jean-Luc Bannalec
-Mystery, France | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 3
August pick:

The Bookseller
(Hugo Marston #1)
by Mark Pryor
-Mystery, France, Paris | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 5
September pick:

Winter in the Madrid
by C.J. Sansom
-Mystery, Historical, Spain, Madrid | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 4
October pick:

Swiss Vendetta
(Agnes Luthi Mysteries #1)
by Tracee de Hahn
-Mystery, Switzerland | Goodreads | my review| my rating: 4
November pick:

The Execution of Justice
by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
-Mystery, Germany | Goodreads | my review: DNF