What I Loved This Week (103)

I'm all about a fresh cozy mystery, the best Australian TV show and sci-fi this week

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📚What I Read and Loved

All The Other Mothers Hate Me: If you are craving something light and not as formulaic as cozy mysteries often are, this is the book for you. It’s a fun ride! I loved that the mystery kept me guessing. This book has everything to become a series, I would definitely read another Florence Grimes novel.

Florence Grimes is a thirty-one-year-old party girl who always takes the easy way out. Single, broke and unfulfilled after the humiliating end to her girl band career, she has only one reason to get out of bed each day: her ten-year-old son Dylan. But then Alfie Risby, her son’s bully and the heir to a vast frozen food empire, mysteriously vanishes during a class trip, and Dylan becomes the prime suspect. Florence, for once, is faced with a task she can’t quit: She’s got to find Alfie and clear her son’s name, or risk losing Dylan forever.

The only problem? Florence has no useful skills, let alone investigative ones, and all the other school moms hate her. Oh, and Florence has a reason to suspect Dylan might not be as innocent as she’d like to believe...

📺 What I Watched and Loved

Black Snow: My FAVORITE Aussie TV show is back for a second season, and I’m happy to report I’m liking it more than the first. Detective James Cormack tackles two separate missing persons cases - the disappearance of a young woman who vanished from her birthday party and his own younger brother, who went missing when they were children. (AMC+)

The Eternaut: This show wasn’t on my radar, but my husband told me everyone was talking about it at work, so we gave it a shot. It’s a sci-fi show based on a comic of the same name. Not only is the show fantastic, but I also went deep into the history of the comic and author that’s equal parts sad and fascinating. (Netflix)

💕 Micro-Joy

I bought airfare for a once-in-a-lifetime vacation in November, and I’m so pumped to start planning my hotels and itineraries. I love to plan trips as much as I love to travel. I’m sure I would have been a fantastic travel agent.

✅ To-do List

• A guide for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners

• The Best new books to read in May

• Unmissable May TV

• It’s romance season!!!

🐰 Rabbit Holes I Went Into

• How impossible is it to kill conspiracy theories now?

• Re-reading this 2025 Pulitzer winner, long form

• And this one as well

• Who are the new West Village Girls?

• My favorite long-form reading: A petty fight between neighbors

🧜🏼‍♀️  Articles and Bits I loved

• Have you tried the scandinavian sleep method?

• The new clubbing

• A snob’s guide to Costco

• Doing nothing has never been so important

• How to make your house more luxurious (on a budget :) )

😄 Free Happiness

• In awe

• Never getting it

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