What I Loved This Week (105)

I'm all about a top tier mystery novel, a happy TV show and wikipedia this week

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📚What I Read and Loved

Heartwood: I needed an immersive novel to read on a no-plans weekend, and this thoroughly fit the bill. It’s been touted as a “God of the Woods” dupe, but I didn’t think the comparison was fair. Yes, both are mysteries, and yes, both are set in the woods, but that’s about it.

In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping.

At the heart of the investigation is Beverly, the determined Maine State Game Warden tasked with finding Valerie, who leads the search on the ground. Meanwhile, Lena, a seventy-six-year-old birdwatcher in a Connecticut retirement community, becomes an unexpected armchair detective. Roving between these compelling narratives, a puzzle emerges, intensifying the frantic search, as Valerie’s disappearance may not be accidental.

📺 What I Watched and Loved

Overcompensating: This is one of the funniest shows I’ve watched in a while. This will sound unhinged, but this is one of my favorite shows of the year. I hope there’s a second season. (Prime Video)

Follows Benny, a football player, as he struggles to accept his sexuality in college, finding himself overcompensating as he tries to appear as something he's not.

Miss Austen: Period dramas are my comfort; they relax me. It feels like gentle entertainment. This show is based on Gill Hornby’s work and explores the reason why Jane Austen’s sister Cassandra burned all the letters Jane sent to her. (PBS)

💕 Micro-Joy

I’m spending a month in my home country! Summer is usually the time when I leave the unbearable heat of South Florida to go to the mountains! Although I’ll be working full time, the change of scenery recharges me every year.

✅ To-do List

• The Summer movies we are all looking forward to

• This is an excellent list of summer reading recos

• A fluffy summer reading guide via

  Nina P.

• Essential road trip movies

🐰 Rabbit Holes I Went Into

• Is your priest on drugs?

• Wikipedia pages to go on rabbit holes via

  postcards by elle

• The virality of toxic masculinity via

  infinite scroll

• True Crime: A slaying in the suburbs

• Supplements made me lose my mind (literally)

🧜🏼‍♀️  Articles and Bits I loved

• Slop Life

• This sounds like a literal dream. 4 pm clubbing & in bed by 10? Yes please

• Stop asking servers what is their favorite dish

• 5 habits of super calm people via

  Thomas Oppong

• Premium is not enough. We are in the Superpremium era

• US Destination dupes

• Are you being a good guest?

😄 Free Happiness

• There are two types of ppl

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