Happy Sunday! I'm sitting here wondering how it can possibly be the middle of August already. For those of you with school-aged children, I'm sure you're wondering how it can possibly be the start of a new school year already! On social media, I'm seeing so many folks excited that fall is just around the corner. I have nothing against fall...except that by the end of fall, all of my gardens will be returned to dirt, the leaves will be off the trees, all of the leaves will be off the trees and we could already have had our first snowfall. Fall bleeds into winter and winter lasts sooooo long! Needless to say, I'm hanging on to summer for as long as I can. The cat and I enjoyed a beautiful evening on the patio, listening to the cicadas, last night, after I had watered and harvested from my garden. Bliss!
Last Week I:
Listened To: I finished Ruth Ware's Zero Days and restarted John Boyne's All The Broken Places. Definitely not my favorite of Ware's books; my review will, hopefully, get posted this week.
Watched: The Big Guy's been off to his class reunion this weekend so I've had the tv to myself. Haven't found a new just-for-me series to watch when he's gone so I watched a couple of movies,
The Dressmaker (starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Hugo Weaving, and Liam Hemsworth and based on the book of the same name by Rosalie Ham) and
Bel Canto (starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe and based on the book of the same name by Ann Patchett). Might just write up a review of the two of them later this week.
Read: I finished Tiffany Baker's Mercy Snow and started Ann Patchett's latest, Tom Lake.
Made: Easy, peasy summer foods - BLT salad, tacos with roasted corn, pasta with garden tomato and basil.
Enjoyed: The return of my brother, his wife and their granddaughters; dinner out with my dad on Friday; a class where we worked on intention boards; and 24 hours of having the house to myself. Love BG but also love having some time with my own thoughts, my own choices of what to do or watch, and the quiet.
This Week I’m:
Planning: I had a couple of things yet from my parent's house that I needed to find a home for which prompted me, Friday night to completely empty by secretary and rearrange everything. I managed to get it all in but now I hate how it looks. So this week I'll probably be emptying it all back out again and making some tough choices of things to get rid of. Kim, you have any room for some more vintage glassware?
Thinking About: That long considered reread of Bel Canto.
Feeling: Very relaxed. I really needed this laid back weekend.
Looking forward to: Book club this week.
Question of the week: What's your favorite movie adaptation of a book?
My favorite adaptation is "The Last of the Mohicans" They turned the novel into a love story and a very successful one at that. I tried to read the original book in middle school and I was so bored!
ReplyDeleteI need to try Bel Canto again. I got halfway through and it was a bit too weird for me to really follow. But it's a short book so I feel like I could read more about it maybe and try again.