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It's hard to decide what my favorite book was for October since they were all such enjoyable reads. Of the four books I managed to finish,  My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry  was the most entrancing and  Black Widow  (ironically) was the funniest. I read it for my book club, and it was picked because someone in my book club knows the author's brother-in-law. She's coming to our (virtual) meeting in December, and I'm looking forward to it! Books Finished This Month My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman Around the World in 80 Dates by Jennifer Cox How to Think Like Shakespeare by Scott Newstok Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like "Journey" in the Title by Leslie Gray Streeter Watched This Month      Netflix The Trial of the Chicago 7  This movie was fun, but hard to watch. Glad I watched it a couple weeks before the election, but still disturbing...

I finished two books this week...but in two different months! I finished The Bookshop of Yesterdays before Oct. 1, and spent the rest of the week reading My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry, which definitely has me on the Fredrik Backman train, even though I just found out he's only a few years older than me, which is intimidating considering the number of books he's had published. Then again, I should have suspected with all the Harry Potter and X-Men references in these books.  Finished Reading  The Bookshop of Yesterdays by Amy Meyerson My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman Watching I finally finished watching all of "The West Wing," for the first time. So astonishingly naive in 2020 hindsight, but I hope we move toward that (still flawed) picture of who we wished we were! I'm currently watching "The  Good Place," season 4.  I'm so glad "Sister, Sister" is on Netflix now. Such a comforting...