Lovely Books and Things - 4.17.22

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. The return of the Cherry Blossom Festival in Japan town
2. Searching for Louise Penny books at used book stores
3. Funny signs

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Library: audiobook

The Book of Mother
by Violaine Huisman
translated by Leslie Camhi
Contemporary, Mental Health, France | Published: 2021 | Goodreads

The Verifiers
by Jane Pek
Mystery, Thriller | Published: 2022 | Goodreads
Library:

Along for the Ride
by Sarah Dessen
YA, Romance | Published: 2009 | Goodreads
for Netflix book club

Freebies: from Free Little Library

Orly Farm
by Anthony Trollope
Classics, Victorian | Published: 1861 | Goodreads

Lucky
by Marissa Stapley
Thriller, Canada | Published: 2021 | Goodreads
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AND watched: virtual theatre

Turning Red (2022)
Director/Writer: Domee Shi
Writers: Julia Cho, Sarah Streicher
Stars: Rosalie Chiang, Sandra Oh
Animation, Adventure, Comedy | imdb | my rating: 5

A 13-year-old girl named Meilin turns into a giant red panda whenever she gets too excited.

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

Thanks for stopping by :-)

Jane in Spring

WATCH:

Sense & Sensibilty musical
presented by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
March 9 to April 2, 2022 (details) READ:

The Verifiers
by Jane Pek
Mystery, Thriller | Published: 2022 | Goodreads | my rating: 4
Claudia Lin is used to disregarding her fractious family’s model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or a nice Chinese boy. She’s also used to keeping secrets from them, such as that she prefers girls—and that she's just been stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referrals-only online-dating detective agency.

A lifelong mystery reader who wrote her senior thesis on Jane Austen, Claudia believes she's landed her ideal job. But when a client goes missing, Claudia breaks protocol to investigate—and uncovers a maelstrom of personal and corporate deceit. Part literary mystery, part family story, The Verifiers is a clever and incisive examination of how technology shapes our choices, and the nature of romantic love in the digital age.

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* header image source: from Emma (2020) film
* part of Jane-austenesque 2022 (here)