My #Chatterday vibe is field trip. Headed to Kailua to visit a local bookstore & my favorite Japanese grocery & favorite natural foods store.
It‘s a 30-40 pretty drive depending on traffic so I can get a chunk of the audiobook of the second in this Decoupage Mystery series for #ThematicCozies March #Hobby I liked the first book so I‘m continuing. Fueled by coffee & a tuna onigiri/musubi
Looking forward to a relaxing Saturday. 😌
pickA fun cozy full of quirky characters.A friends invites Brenna to work in her decoupage shop.Brenna settles here,hoping to leave her past in Boston behind.She is renting a nearby lakeside cottage from an artist Nate Williams,who has secrets of his own.Brenna spies a trunk at the edge of the lake & pulls it out.To her horror, she discovers the mayor‘s body inside.Clues point to Nate as the murderer. Can she prove his innocence? #decoupagemystery #1
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Enjoying this audiobook while waiting on dinner. 🎧📕🍝🥗
pickSometimes it‘s not the characters or the dialogue that is the star, but it is McCracken‘s narrator who runs off with the whole of “Bowlaway,” a book with sentences so off-kilter and rich that the highest compliment I can give it is it begs to be adapted into film by Wes Anderson. Something in every paragraph makes your brows furrow, provides a chuckle about the seemingly cursed New England candlepin alley at the turn of the century. A delight.
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Finished the audiobook this weekend as I ran errands, I enjoyed this pick for #ThematicCozies March #Hobby Brenna has been in her small New England town, a refugee of Boston where the art gallery she ran was violently robbed. She teaches decoupage art in the paper craft store her friend Tenley owns & gets involved in solving the mayor‘s death when her landlord is accused. The characters show promise & I like that there⬇️
pickAn excellent, timely read about individual and generational trauma which is often inseparable. Also, it‘s a story of hope. Wilkerson is very good at storytelling.
My #ThematicCozies picks for March: #Hobby I picked two in case I don‘t like one. Both are first in series & free with my Audible membership. The tagged book is probably most on theme. ✂️
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