Happy weekend, readers! I hope you have something to look forward to these next few days. I plan to spend some time outdoors and finally get all the houseplants I recently moved indoors settled into their new spaces for the winter.
Good book news this week: Don’t Overthink It hit the Wall Street Journal bestseller list, and it was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award. Please pop over to Goodreads to vote—your vote goes a long way toward helping your fellow readers discover new-to-them books.
Book voting isn’t the only voting happening in the U.S. right now, of course. Vote.org can help you find where to vote, who’s on your ballot, where to find a dropbox, and more.
My favorite finds from around the web:
- A Reset for Library E-books. Fingers crossed libraries and publishers figure out a sustainable solution.
- Our winter book box is ready to roll! We’re once again partnering with St Louis-area indie The Novel Neighbor to bring you our Modern Mrs Darcy Book Club Winter Book Box. We’ll share more about our upcoming season on the blog next week, but in the meantime, click here for more about our winter season.
- Many thanks for your Secondhand Lions recommendation in the comments section here. My whole family enjoyed it this past weekend. (I can totally see why you named it a good pick for fans of The Princess Bride.)
- When You Don’t Know What to Do, Make Tea. I love my morning coffee but I also love a good cuppa.
- Speaking of tea: hot cinnamon spice continues to be my favorite, but the one I drink the most (because podcasting) is Throat Coat.
- Influencers Are the Retailers of the 2020s. “Influencers are like the new catalogue.” I hadn’t thought about it this way before. Fascinating.
- New to audiobooks? Get 3 audiobooks with a 30-day free trial at Audiobooks.com.
- Watch Chadwick Boseman in Netflix’s First Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Trailer. His final role. It’s so heartbreaking.
- This 2004 essay remains the best piece I’ve ever read about Halloween, but it needs a serious gut punch/mascara-running-down-your-face warning.
- 9 Books To Help You Understand Your Anxiety. Thank you to the reader who let me know Don’t Overthink It was included in this list!
- The Elimination Diet for Skin. With all the conflicting advice out there, this is good to consider.
- How One Book Biz Insider Is Getting Books to Prisoners. What a great program!
- I Could Never Get Grandma’s Thanksgiving Dressing Quite Right—Until She Was Gone. “Back then I hadn’t yet learned that the most important thing about cooking for other people is the joy your food can bring them.”
- I got a kick out of hearing this from Cynthia: “This list and the comments are bringing me joy. I’ve got lots of new things to try. Thanks everyone!”
Don’t miss these posts:
- Eleanor Roosevelt’s five ways to take part in politics. Her advice is still timely.
- 16 Shakespeare-Inspired Books for Readers of All Ages. You can’t go wrong with the Bard.
Have a great weekend!
21 comments
I was so excited to see your book on the Goodreads awards that I immediately voted for it (even though I haven’t read that particular one of yours). 🙂
I saw Don’t overthink it on the goodreads ballot yesterday and did a cheer!
Thank you!
Congratulations on Don’t Overthink It!
And I was so happy to see you loved Secondhand Lions. It’s such a great (and yet somehow unknown) movie!
I agree that Secondhand Lions was a great movie and have wondered why it didn’t get more publicity.
Oh, the great family memories of watching that movie together over and over when my now adult boys were young! I hadn’t thought about Second Hand Lions in years! SO Good!
Have you ever had a latte made with hot cinnamon spice tea? Barnes & Noble has them on their seasonal cafe menu right now.
That sounds delicious and I definitely need to try it!
I’m so excited about the winter box!
I am considering relocating some outside plants indoors for the winter…is there anything I need to know about settling them indoors? I live three floors up, but for some reason my brain is still weird about bringing in bugs 🙂 I did bring a gecko in once…
A gecko?! I hose mine down before bringing them in, and typically google the particulars of each plant. (I only have a handful of varieties I move outdoors so it’s not as big a chore as it may sound like.)
I love the tea-making post! Tea lovers should check out Upton Tea Imports. They have an amazing assortment of teas and publish a delightful newsletter several times a year, featuring stories from the history of the tea trade.
Secondhand Lions is a great movie! Thanks for the reminder – I totally forgot about it!! xo
Congrats, Anne!
Regarding tea, I’m English and have spent YEARS trying to get my husband to understand that when you make a Brit a cuppa, you’re not just offering them tea. You’re offering them a hug, or respite from the cruel world, or medicine, or just something to do…the list goes on. We drink tea when it’s hot to cool us down and tea when it’s cold to warm us up (don’t ask…it works!), and even though I now live in the US, I still have to order my super strong builder’s tea from Amazon (Yorkshire Gold) to keep me going!
So true! My mother grew up in London, and she says the British solution to almost any problem is to start by brewing a pot of tea!
for folks wanting to support books in prisons, Prison Book Program, in Quincy MA, has an ongoing Amazon list with the most popular requests from prisoners.
I read the Halloween article nodding my head….”oh this is cute but not so bad.” And then the end. I’m still sobbing.
Same!
That Halloween Story! D-,:
Thank you for sharing!
I have definitely read more library e-books than ever recently! And now I need to start the kettle for tea!
Have you tried Hot Cinnamon Sunset? I’m trying to figure out what the difference is?