Lovely Books and Things - 7.26.20

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. Deciding on and going to french related places for Paris in July theme this month - mostly food inspired.

2. Yummy new recipe and new (to me) spice: Za'atar Roasted Chicken Breast (here)

3. Covid themed rock garden spotted during walk

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Bought:

Death Comes In Through The Kitchen
by Teresa Dovalpage
Mystery, Food, Havana | Goodreads
Library: ebook

Murder in Clichy
by Cara Black
Mystery, France, Paris | Goodreads
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Virtual Author event: hosted by NY Times Books
See archive of this on instagram igtv (here)

The Beauty in Breaking
by Michele Harper
Memoir, Health-medical field | Goodreads
Virtual Author event: hosted by Booksmith
Listen to archive of this and check out their calendar for future free author events (here)
Tune in Tuesdays 11am pst VIRTUAL: ZYZZYVA & The Booksmith Present: Lockdown Lit @ Lunch
A conversation between:

Exile Music
by Jennifer Steil
Historical, WWII, Jewish, Bolivia | Goodreads

Daughters of Smoke and Fire
by Ava Homa
Contemporary, Iran | Goodreads
Virtual Author event: hosted by Book Passages
Listen to archive of this and check out their calendar for future free author events (here)
A conversation between: John Muir Laws and Amy Tan

How to Teach Nature Journaling: Curiosity, Wonder, Attention
by John Muir Laws, Emilie Lygren
Art, How-to, Nature | Goodreads

A conversation between: Mark Nepo and Brooke Warner

The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters
by Mark Nepo
Spirituality | Goodreads
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AND watched: SFFilm online preview screening

Boys State (2020)
Director: Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss
Stars: Steven Garza, Ben Feinstein, René Otero, Robert Macdougall
Documentary | imdb | my rating: 5
A thousand 17-year-old boys from Texas join together to build a representative government from the ground up. Filmed at UT Austin in June 2018

POLITICS at play with future leaders in the making.

Speedo (2003)
Director: Jesse Moss
Stars: Ed 'Speedo' Jager, Linda Jager, Anthony Jager
Documentary, Sport, on vimeo | imdb | my rating: 5
A film about Ed “Speedo” Jager, a Long Island demolition derby champion.

PASSION for demolition derby that Speedo has really drives this story which drew me in.


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Foreign Intrigue Book Club 2020

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?

2020

DECEMBER/JANUARY:

The Blood Strand
(Faroes #1)
by Chris Ould
Mystery, Faroe Islands, Denmark | Goodreads | my rating: 4
FEBRUARY:

Evil Things
(Hella Mauzer #1)
by Katja Ivar
Mystery, Historical, Helsinki, Finland | Goodreads | my rating: 4
MARCH:

Department of Sensitive Crimes
by Alexander McCall Smith
Mystery, Humor, Sweden | Goodreads | my rating: 5
APRIL:

Kolymsky Heights
by Lionel Davidson
Mystery, Russian, Siberia | Goodreads | my rating: 4
MAY:

Athenian Blues
by Pol Koutsakis
Mystery, Greece | Goodreads | my rating: tba
JUNE:

Weeping Waters
by Karin Brynard
Mystery, South Africa | Goodreads | my rating: 5
JULY:

Don’t Send Flowers
by Martin Solares
Mystery, Crime, Mexico | Goodreads | my rating: 5
AUGUST:

Death Comes In Through The Kitchen
by Teresa Dovalpage
Mystery, Food, Havana | Goodreads | my rating: tba
SEPTEMBER:

The Levanter
by Eric Ambler
Mystery, Espionage, Syria | Goodreads | my rating: dnf
OCTOBER:

Beside the Syrian Sea
by James Wolff
Mystery, Thriller, Syria | Goodreads | my rating: dnf
NOVEMBER:

Among The Ruins by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Mystery, Canada, Iran| Goodreads | my rating: 4 zombie sighting:
After she'd made the offer she had a sudden vision of Zack painting the room black shuttering its windows and creating a collage of zombies in various stages of decay.
-chapter 26

DECEMBER/JANUARY:

Overkill
by Vanda Symon
Mystery, New Zealand | Goodreads | my rating: 4