What I Loved This Week (98)

I'm all about the best book I've read all year (yes!), a TV show not to miss and a cozy mystery gem this week.

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📚What I Read and Loved

Wild Dark Shore: If you asked me, what genre is this book? I wouldn’t know how to answer. It’s speculative fiction, romance, mystery, and drama, all into one perfect story. I’ll venture to say it is the best book I’ve read all year.

Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore.

Isolation has taken its toll on the Salts, but as they nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, it begins to feel like she might just be what they need.

But Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own secrets. As the storms on Shearwater gather force, they all must decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the precious seeds in their care before it’s too late

📺 What I Watched and Loved

A Remarkable Place to Die: If you are looking for a new cozy mystery show, this is it. Set in New Zealand, with the most spectacular views, this show follows Detective Anais Mallory returning to her hometown Queenstown, where she solves murders and also battles her own ghosts. Acorn

Los Espookys: I’m not sure why this show flew under my radar back then. I Watched it on an 8-hour plane ride and couldn’t stop, time literally flew by. There are only 2 seasons and it’s canceled (womp, womp) but please watch it regardless! Julio Torres is a genius. Max

Follows the adventures of Renaldo, a horror and gore enthusiast who forms a unique business that conjures thrills and chills for a variety of clients.

💕 Micro-Joy

Since I arrived from my vacation, I’ve been doing something called ‘the petit plaisir’ where I brew a fancy tea I brought back and couple it with a fancy treat. I’m into salted butter caramel right now. It’s around 5 to 10 minutes of bliss per day and I love it so much.

✅ To-do List

• A list of novels featuring messy women

• The Movies we’ve loved since the 2000’s

• If you miss Winter, here’s a list of sweater detectives you can watch

🐰 Rabbit Holes I Went Into

• This Balloon Boy hoax story deep dive made me go back to that day when the media went wild.

• The first Millenial Saint?

• Kids’ parties for the Ultrarich

• Is cheap cashmere worth buying

• Confessions from a Bearded Lady - Beautiful writing!

🧜🏼‍♀️  Articles and Bits I loved

• 7 wonders of the world for 2025 and on that note, the world’s greatest places

• Who should go on the White Lotus all-stars?

• Why are we so obsessed with cottage cheese? Guilty, I always have a tub on my refrigerator

• Zero days by

  milk and cookies

😄 Free Happiness

• Best Invention

• Museum Opening hours

• I can attest to that

• So accurate

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