What I Loved This Week (96)
I'm all about a book that span generations, my favorite TV show being back and lots of long form articles this week
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📚What I Read and Loved
Confessions: Disclaimer! I have not finished the book (I’m at the 70% mark) but couldn’t wait to share my find with you. If you’ve been here for a while you know I’m very into family sagas that span generations and this one grabbed me from the start.
New York City, late September 2001. The walls of the city are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady’s father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. When a letter arrives from an aunt she didn’t know existed in Ireland with the offer of a new life, the name jogs a memory: an old videocassette game Cora used to play as a child where two sisters must save the students of a mysterious boarding school.
County Donegal, 1974. An eclectic group of artists known as the Screamers arrives in Burtonport and moves into the old schoolhouse down the road from where Róisín lives with her older sister Máire. Alternately kind and cruel, brilliant artist Máire is a mystery to Róisín, as is Máire’s relationship with the boy next door, Michael. When the Screamers look to hire an artist in residence, Róisín enlists Michael’s help to get Máire the job, setting in motion a chain of events that will put an ocean between the sisters and threaten to tear them apart forever.
Burtonport, 2018. Lyca Brady lives in a sprawling old house with her mother, Cora, and great aunt, Ro. Abortion has just been legalized in Ireland, and Lyca is struggling to find herself outside her mother’s activism. An unexpected message from a childhood friend sends Lyca searching her house’s mysterious attic, with its strange collection of old medical equipment, piles of paperwork, and dusty boxes of ancient video games. There, she unearths secrets hidden for decades—secrets perhaps better left unknown.
📺 What I Watched and Loved
Dark Winds: My favorite TV show is back and the first episode of the 3rd season was fantastic. I don’t think many people know about this show as it’s criminally underrated by the awards, yet, it maintains a 100% Rotten Tomato score. Do yourself a favor and watch it (AMC+)
Set in 1971 on a remote outpost of the Navajo Nation near Monument Valley, Dark Winds follows Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Tribal Police as he is besieged by a series of seemingly unrelated crimes. The closer he digs to the truth, the more he exposes the wounds of his past
Deli Boys If you need a silly little show to watch and giggle at, this is it. I found it entertaining. It’s a tad silly at times, but surprisingly, it works. (Hulu)
💕 Micro-Joy
Last week we did an adult sleepover with my cousin, her husband, and their kids at my house. It was fun for the kids and the adults alike. We usually do day hangs, but we switched it up a bit. Stayed up talking until late, ate all the snacks, and woke up to a hearty breakfast and so many kids (and dog) running around.
✅ To-do List
Best Podcasts of 2025 (so far)
What to read this Spring
🐰 Rabbit Holes I Went Into
We drastically changed our eating habits after COVID
The thin line between helping and terrorizing
The best thing I read in True Crime: What happened to Suzanne Simpson?
Why are these sprouting in all affluent neighborhoods in the US
Going through a hate parade of the Daylight Savings Time - I hate it
🧜🏼♀️ Articles and Bits I loved
A map of the World’s Best Restaurants
The Ins and Outs of travel via
North Korea is open, but who’s going?
The Netflixfication of World Literature
😄 Free Happiness
I completely endorse this study - as someone who lived in Berlin for years, this track!
The fourth trip to the banana bread
👋🏼 Classifieds
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The 4th trip to the banana bread is so me lol
I have Confessions queued up as my next Spotify audibook and as soon as I feel like I can concentrate on anything again, I'm diving in!