Happy Friday, readers! School starts next week around here, so this weekend we are getting ready. And I’m reading up a storm because it’s time to decide on fall flight picks for the MMD Book Club. (More info coming Monday!) I hope your weekend holds good things for you.
My favorite finds from around the web:
- Watch the trailer for the lush adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel Sanditon. Austen wrote 12 chapters before her death; Andrew Davies, who wrote the screenplay for BBC’s Pride & Prejudice remake, wrote the rest of the story. I’m certainly intrigued.
- I just got one of these and I love it.
- The Rise of Coffee Shaming. “Coffee endures as a personal-finance flash point because it provides such a tidy intersection of generational tensions. A cup of coffee embodies changes in everything from how younger Americans eat to where they live and how they approach their finances.”
- Lego’s Friends Central Perk Set is Out Next Month And Could We BE Anymore Excited. LEGO is bringing me all kinds of joy lately.
- Work Keeping You Up At Night? 6 Ways To Ease Your Mind. Great strategies.
- Libraries are fighting to preserve your right to borrow e-books. I shared some thoughts on the current state of things right here.
Favorite Instagram:
Isn’t this flower truck the cutest? Follow me on Instagram @annebogel.
Louisville area
Two things if you’re in Louisville, Kentucky:
1. I’ll be moderating what promises to be a terrific event on August 13 with ever-fabulous authors Joshilyn Jackson (Never Have I Ever) and Kim Michele Richardson (The Book Woman Of Troublesome Creek) at Carmichael’s Bookstore here in Louisville (Frankfort Ave location). I CAN’T WAIT. Hope to see you there! The event is free but you must register.
2. I’m looking for someone in town who can help me with Trader Joe’s runs, post office visits, photo shoot prep, and getting four kids to four different track meets in four different parts of the county at the same time. I estimate ten hours per week to start. If you’re the right person—or know the right person—please email me: [email protected]. Thanks!
On the blog:
One year ago: My 6 favorite summer-to-fall transition pieces. Anyone else looking forward to fall?
Two years ago: Ask for the &$!@%! mug. Sometimes you just have to ask for what you want.
Three years ago: 20 of the century’s most banned books.
Four years ago: My Parnassus Books haul (or how I decide what to buy and what to borrow.) This is a fun look back to my first visit to a bookstore I’ve been thinking about a lot this week!
Five years ago: Making it yours. “I’m starting to suspect that to really love a place, you’ve got to meet it halfway: you have to choose to make it yours.”
On the podcast:
What a treat to have Mary Laura Philpott on the show! She’s an essayist, bookseller, and a big fan of memoirs of people living “everyday lives”. I’m sure many of you will be interested in her “everyday life” as a Book Enthusiast at Large—yes, that is her job title—for Parnassus Books in Nashville.
Have a great weekend!
17 comments
Oh, how I wish I could be at your upcoming author event. I just finished reading The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, and loved it. So interesting! I picked up Never Have I Ever at the public library yesterday. First on the hold list for this new release, thanks to you and your SRG, Anne. It’s supposed to rain here tomorrow, so I envision some serious reading time coming up…
I hope you enjoy it!
I’m glad to see we share the same troubles of having a family. I keep telling my husband we need “mom-provided Uber” to get our kids where they need to be when there are more of them than drivers in the family.
It’s definitely not just you. 🙂
Loved The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek….plan on recommending it to our book club.
I also loved Book Woman and have shared it with several friends. I cant wait to see how our Brit JojoMoyes handles the same subject matter in her fall book. Wish you weren’t such a long drive from No. Alabama on a “school” nite, even though Im way way past school age!smiles
Well you know I’ll be down your way before too long! I’m looking forward to it. 🙂
The podcast with Mary Laura was a delight! I wanted it to go on and on. Maybe a partnership is in the making – you two are great together!
Thanks for listening!
I had multiple people text me yesterday about the Friends Lego set, pretty sure that’s going on my Christmas list!
In the market for a new curling iron – these look great! Headed to a new-to-me bakery this weekend to buy bread thanks to your “Split the loaf with a stranger” post that I ran across again last night – I want all the bread now 🙂
I recently finished The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek and it packed a punch! I don’t get moved to tears with a book very often but that one sure did it. Would love to be able to be at the author event, just a little too far away.
Anne, seeing you ask for help makes me feel so much better. Just proof you aren’t doing it all–and you’re not pretending you are. Good luck finding the right person! and I’m so jealous I can’t come to the book event.
It takes a village! (And that would be so great to see you there! We’ll make it happen, hopefully soon.)
Just finished Never Have I Ever last night- read it in a day including sneaky peeks at work! I wish I could come to the event as I have a number of questions about that ending!!!
I purchased the Revlon hairdryer in your last “links I love,” and although I never thought I’d say that a hairdryer would make such a change, but wow! My morning now has 30 extra sleeping or reading minutes. Thank you!!
I’m glad you like it, and that you’re putting that saved time to good use!