Hello sweet friends!
I hope this Sunday proves to be a restful cure to bleary eyes and weary backs. That’s what I’m hoping for myself and I’ll just pass those hopes on to you. It’s a short list today, but I promise this week will have some recipe gems and good vibes. There’s more to come. Here’s our Sunday reading for here and now:
• I first listened to this story on The Daily Podcast (linked in the story as well). Give it a read / listen. It’s very human and gives life to a perspective we might not always see this closely: Becoming a Steelworker Liberated Her. Then Her Job Moved To Mexico.
• In search of perspective with an openness that is important. Inspired By #MeToo, I Talked To A Sexist I Actually Love.
• File under, Not Surprising At All: The Secretive Family Making Billions From The Opioid Crisis
• My goodness, honestly: Why Are Prosecutors Putting Innocent Witnesses In Jail?
• 9 Book About Money That Every Woman Should Read. Getting our dollar bills are important. Not long ago I asked my financial planner friend Jessi to give me the low-down: Pro Tips From A Financial Planner. Don’t talk about it, be about it.
• Very shortly I’m going to figure out how to make this wreath for myself: Magnolia Leaf Wreath. And in related news, I’ll have a paper flower poinsettia tutorial up on the blog for you after Halloween.
• An offering for your Autumn Baking List: Pear Crumble Coffee Cake.
• I’m putting together a more comprehensive schedule of events for workshops and classes at The Bakehouse! Find the schedule here! This weekend we had a pretzel making adventure (see photo evidence above). And! There will be more classes for this holiday season added soon! Also, follow along with the adventures on Instagram: @thebakehousenola. Hope you’ll come play!
• What’s on your reading list right now? This is a cry for help.
• Excuse me while I shut out the world and sit on the couch in this sweater for as long as I want.
• When it comes to cookies, it literally doesn’t get better than these: Milk Chocolate Cookies and Cream Cookies. I remade them just last week and praise-hands there is still dough left in the refrigerator.
Enjoy this day!
I think you’re great.
xo Joy
Jeanne CS
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren, for the naturalist and perfectionist in all of us. It’s a good one. :)
Jennie
Reading list:
My Glory Was I Had Such Friends
The Bright Hour
Priestdaddy
Not particularly light reading, but I always think about you when the weather gets cooler because you once posted a winter reading list and said in winter you like to destroy yourself. Me too!
Alicen
I’m reading Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter from your recommendation. It is a great book!
The Sign by Raymond Khoury is my all-time favourite book. :)
Kristen
Our book club just finished A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman. It was universally loved.
Donna
Hi Kristen!
I am currently reading and loving Beartown by Fredrik Backman. Highly recommend if you haven’t read it.
gin
I’m almost finished with 1Q84–excellent! And for humor, I like Jasper Fford’s Thursday Next series.
RAD
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund–a brilliant first novel that is both a thriller and coming-of-age story.
Clear your schedule before you begin. No joke.
Sara
I’ve now read Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel twice and it was just as epic and thrilling as a reread. Another recommendation based on rereadability: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. Also: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, Commonwealth by Ann Patchett, and my favorite Margaret Atwood is Cat’s Eye
Suze
I’m in the middle of a really good food memoir- “The Comfort Food Diaries” by Emily Nunn. Food writer goes on a self-healing, edible journey after a breakdown. Recipes included!
Rachel H.
I’m a New Orleanian too and I’m reading The Moviegoer by Walker Percy for the first time. I am kicking myself for not reading it sooner. Pick it up, I know you’ll freak out over it!
JBock
I’ve been recommending “Euphoria” to all of my friends lately: historical fiction, inspiring lady adventurer, love triangle, yet with lots of nuggets to keep thinking about. Also randomly my book club is reading “Murder on the Orient Express”– good escapism as is needed of late.
danlovesmary
Any book by Susan Elizabeth Phillips because – as she says, ‘Because life’s too short to read depressing books”
Cassie
Reading: Before the Fall by Noah Hawley. I solely picked it up because it was recommended by Georgia on MFM. I’m about halfway in & neglecting everything else for the rest of the day so I can finish it. It’s so good!
Donna
I also enjoyed this one! I recently picked up his book, The Good Father and so far so good!
Melanie
The two best books I’ve read lately are The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas – I highly recommend the audiobook version – and My Grandma Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman for something real but a bit more lighthearted.
I am currently reading Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate and have been thoroughly sucked in – basically I want to be reading it at all times… And on my to-read list next are Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng and She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb.
Love reading all the book recommendations in the comments!
Donna
I completely agree with you about The Hate U Give! I can’t stop thinking about it and recommending it. I felt all the emotions! I recently picked up Little Fires Everywhere. Also reading and loving Hillary Clinton’s memoir, What Happened, Beartown by Fredrik Backman, and The Alice Network by Kate Quinn!
Cindy Bohli
I finally read The Secret Life of Bees & loved it. I’m now reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. Wonderful writing! I’m having a hard time putting it down.
Angela
Two latest books:
Dark Matter by Black Crouch – I don’t like Sci Fi but this came highly recommended. I read it in two days. I’m also convinced it will be a movie, and the main character will be played by Matt Damon, so there ya go.
Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship by Michelle Kuo. A memoir written by Kuo, who taught middle school in the Mississippi Delta. After going to law school she finds out one of her students is in jail for murder, so she goes back and spends a year tutoring him in jail. All the feels, all the thoughts on race, inequality, literature.
Beartown by Fredrick Backman – best book I’ve read this year. About a hockey town, but not about hockey. I have recommended it to everyone I know.
Angela
I mean three…
Donna
I’ve been soooo curious about Reading with Patrick and I’m planning on reading it this fall. Glad to see you loved it. Can’t wait to pick it up now! Also, just started Beartown on Monday night and I am loving it so much!!:)
Highly recommend Exit, Pursued by a Bear by E. K. Johnston. It’s an engaging and devastating, yet empowering and hopeful story about the captain of a high school cheerleading team who is raped at summer camp. Johnston focuses on how she deals with the aftermath and fights to regain control of her life with the support of family, friends and therapy. Beautifully written, thought provoking, and necessary.