💬 Friday Thread: Let's Talk Favorites....
Plus, What Did You Read This Week?
Hello Friends!
After many months of us getting together to chat in these weekly threads, I’m sure one thing is clear - I love to ask questions:) As we’re heading into the last few weeks of the year, as well as the busy holiday season, I started thinking about how much I also love hearing about other people’s “favorites.” As I write this, I just finished watching Good Morning America’s Deals and Steals morning segment with some of Oprah’s Favorite Things (I have my eye on the Foot Nanny Foot Creme).
I think it would be fun to share more of our favorites in this space. This could be a great way to get to know each other better, and also get some great gift ideas for the holiday season, birthdays throughout the year, etc. Feel free to share whatever favorites you’d like (bookish & non-bookish), the possibilities are endless. Some ideas include: favorite books to give as gifts, favorite skincare products, favorite pen, favorite blankets to read under, favorite book characters of 2024, favorite accounts to follow (here on Substack & elsewhere), favorite recipe, favorite candle, favorite holiday movie, etc. I’ll be putting out a separate Friday Thread in December asking for your favorite books of 2024 so you can keep those for that post:) And as always, let’s share what we’ve been reading this week….
I’ll share a few of my favorites to start (more will be in the comments), plus one book I finished this week….
New planning pad I’m loving- I Am a Planner Legal Pad from Paper Source (I got it at Barnes & Noble). This sheet has simplified my weekly to do’s, I keep it on my kitchen counter and add/cross off throughout the week. I love that there’s different sections, I’ve been putting larger projects that might take more than a week on the left, quick tasks in the center, and things that pop into my head during the week on the bottom.
Holiday movie - The Family Stone
Soup recipe - Chicken Pot Pie Soup
Way to read - With my Kindle Oasis on Dark Mode and under this blanket I love my Kindle Oasis because I’m a button girl, but I’ve also surprised myself with how much my eyes enjoy reading on dark mode, even in the daytime. My Oasis has started freezing most days I open it and I’m so bummed it’s been discontinued.
Recent Read
None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell - A psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself the subject of her own popular true crime podcast.
I’ve loved the two Lisa Jewell’s I’ve read in the past - I Found You and Then She Was Gone and while I didn’t like this as much as those, I still liked this one a lot. There’s something propulsive about her writing style that makes it hard to put her books down. I listened to part of this and the audio was awesome, it was a true production with different narrators and sound effects. I found the podcast aspect to be a great way to add intrigue to different parts of the story.
The one thing I found icky and hard to read about was the relationship of one of the main characters Josie and her husband Walter - it’s not a spoiler to say that she was 15 when they met and he was 42. I’m unclear as to why the author chose this age difference, because even though Josie is currently 45 throughout the present day storyline (which takes up most of the story), we do get plenty of backstory about her past as she tells her story for the podcast. Have you read this? Or do you have any other books by Lisa J you’d recommend?
Question Time
What are some of your favorites?
What did you read this week (or are you planning on reading this weekend?)