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November Wrap-Up

It's been (another) long month. It was sweet having Thanksgiving at home, just us and the pups. We got a meal to heat up from Boston Market and I made a homemade apple pie with our synagogue's Zoom bake-a-long. Even with just heating up, it took over an hour and a half, and you put everything in your own dishes, so I can see how easy it is to make look like a homecooked meal!

Reading this month was mostly for my book clubs, but I got in a couple of books I've wanted to read as well, like the new release from Modern Mrs. Darcy blogger Anne Bogel, Don't Overthink It, and Exit West, which was hugely popular a couple of years ago. I don't know that it lived it up to the hype, but certainly has a fascinating concept at its core: worth thinking about and quite topical. 


 Books Read This Month

  1. Small Great Things by Jodi Piccoult (book club)
  2. Don't Overthink It by Anne Bogel
  3. The Rent Collector by Cameron Wright (other book club)
  4. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
Watching
  • Call the Midwife--finished seasons 8 and 9. This show is so good.
  • Carrie Pillby--quirky Netflix movie, but NATHAN LANE is her psychologist, so. 
  • Star Trek Discovery--loving season 3 best of all, plus some Easter eggs from ST Picard showed up!
  • GBBO-we both teared up at the finale, not so much because of who won, but--they made us a quarantine season of GBBO *sniffle* and it's OVER *waaah* (we agree that 2020 deserves at least three seasons of GBBO).
  • Heartland--I didn't even know Canada had a cattle country, and there's eleven seasons of this "horse of the week" show on Netflix. Guess I know what I'll be doing for a while. 

Comments

Judy Krueger said…
I was highly impressed with Exit West, though not everyone was. I swore off Jodi Picoult after reading I think three of her books for reading groups. She just annoys the heck out of me. Happy reading in December.
Judy, I wasn't as impressed with Exit West as I wanted to be, but I think the core concept of the doors is a lovely illustration of modern globalization. As for Jodi Piccoult, I would never have picked one of her books on purpose, that one especially. She knows how to tell a story, but her characters just feel like info dumps to me.

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