Another boring year end list, but it is mandatory.

Miki:

Favorite books:

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert, Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, I Mom So Hard by Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley, Lethal White by Robert Galbraith. Up next, You Are My Fireworks by her intrepid husband Pete Schulte. 

Favorite movies:

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, Frozen Two, Toy Story Four, Smallfoot (Can you tell we have a toddler?).

Favorite tv shows:

Sweetbitter, Sorry For Your Loss, Sex Education, Modern Love

Favorite music: 

Lizzo, Billie Eilish



Pete:

Favorite books:

Normal People by Sally Rooney, Conversations With Friends also by Sally Rooney, Why Bob Dylan Matters by Richard F. Thomas, Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell 

Favorite movies:

Booksmart, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Frozen Two, Toy Story Four

Favorite tv shows:

Modern Love, Mindhunter, Tales from the City, Mrs. Fletcher

Favorite music:

Hardcore Death Metal… and show tunes! Same old same old for me.

Cordi:

Favorite books:

Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear by Lindsay Mattick and Sophie Blackall, Bizzy Bears Zookeeper, Dia de los Muertos, Pat the Bunny, or really anything by Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. 

Favorite Movies:

Frozen Two, Toy Story Four, Smallfoot, Barbie Dolphin Magic

Favorite tv shows:

Minnie’s Bow Toons, Sesame Street’s 50th Anniversary Special

Favorite music:

Biddy biddy bum bum...

A book recommendation for your holiday shopping...

A mini review of Normal People by Sally Rooney

The author Sally Rooney tells the coming-of-age story of Connell and Marianne, star-crossed on and off lovers set in Ireland. They first meet as schoolmates in a small town where Connell’s mother works as a maid in Marianne’s house. Later on, they both attend Trinity College in Dublin. At first, Marianne is such an outcast that Connell is mortified just to be seen with her. And Connell is so self-conscious that an act of cruelty is justified to preserve his social status. What are the odds that such an unlikely couple could connect, let alone build a relationship? As they find, chemistry and attraction are often mysterious entities. For despite differences in class and social circles, sometimes it all comes down to two people, two very normal people. I have to say, I haven’t read a novel this good in quite some time. The author’s physical descriptions are sparse, but that works here because you get such a window into their inner thoughts and feelings that your imagination takes care of everything else. I was blown away by this book and cannot wait to read her previous effort, Conversations With Friends.

Some Mid-Autumn photos and a few paintings to check out...

Your Dream To Dance Begins Today...

Ready to scare crows.

Here Comes the Sun

Lovebirds Frozen In Time

Prism Abstract #6 by Cordelia Schulte

Way Out West Pink

Way Out West Blue