Friday Favorites~a weekly series where we share our favorite books, decor, fashion finds, recipes, podcasts, articles and more.
FRIDAY FAVORITES NO. 603
Good morning friends! Happy Friday Favorites to you.
I am looking forward to the weekend, we have no plans and that is just fine by me. A few quiet days at home are just what I need. Sunday is the first day of Fall, can you believe it? The weather doesn’t consistently feel like Fall yet here. But I know it is coming and I am excited for the cooler days and all of the Fall fun ahead.
What are your plans for the weekend?
As always, I have lots to share so let’s get to all of our Friday Favorites!
FOOD
Fall comfort food can be healthy and nutritious. Today I am sharing a few Fall salads that I think you will love.
Looking for a new Fall salad, that is quick, easy and delicious? Try this apple wedge salad with bacon, gorgonzola.
This chicken, butternut squash, pear and goat cheese salad is another one to add to your Fall menu.
Kale lovers this apple cranberry bacon kale salad is for you.
Roasted beet salad with goat cheese and nuts.
Sourdough Pumpkin bread is the perfect accompaniment to a Fall salad.
LINKS TO READ+WATCH+LISTEN
Movies lovers you will enjoy this post of upcoming movies from around the world.
One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia
The Race to Protect Pacific Whales
Why We Love Looking At Oil Paintings of Food
The Experience Economy is Booming. So is Regret.
She Was Once the Biggest Star in Jazz. Here’s Why You’ve Never Heard of Her.
The Night Benefits of Insomnia.
How to Brush Your Teeth Properly
5 Thoughts 90 Percent of Us Struggle With Almost Every Single Day of Our Lives
BOOKS
Perfect
A nice house in a tony neighborhood. A hardworking husband. A private school for the children. From the outside, Diana has a perfect life. But her sensitive and observant young son notices that the other kids’ mothers are not like his own. They dress differently. Byron’s father prefers that his wife dress formally, in slim skirts and pointy heels. He gives Diana a Jaguar so neighbors will sit up and take notice. And they do.
Then, one morning, during a shortcut to school through a poor neighborhood, something happens that Byron cannot shake and his mother refuses to acknowledge. Until she has no choice. In the weeks that follow, the façade of a happy family shows signs of distress. Diana makes a questionable friend, and an increasingly tense dance begins—between guilt and resentment, envy and regret—all leading to a tragedy and a shattering revelation.
The Uninvited Guests
One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honor of Emerald Torrington’s twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savory survivors to seek shelter at the ramshackle manor–and the household is thrown into confusion and mischief.
Evening turns to stormy night, and a most unpleasant parlor game threatens to blow respectability to smithereens: Smudge Torrington, the wayward youngest daughter of the house, decides that this is the perfect moment for her Great Undertaking.
The Witch of Painted Sorrows
Called an “elegant tale of rare depth and beauty, as brilliantly crafted as it is wondrously told” by the Providence Journal, The Witch of Painted Sorrows “melds the normal and paranormal in the kind of seamless fashion reserved for such classic ghost stories as Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw.”
New York socialite Sandrine Salome flees an abusive husband for her grandmother’s Paris mansion, despite warnings that the lavish family home is undergoing renovation and too dangerous to enter. There Sandrine meets Julien Duplessi, a mesmerizing architect who introduces her to the City of Lights—its art world, forbidden occult underground, nightclubs—and to her own untapped desires.
Soon Sandrine’s husband tracks her down and an insidious spirit takes hold: La Lune, a witch and a legendary sixteenth-century courtesan who exposes Sandrine to a deadly darkness.
MORE BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
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SHOPPING
OUTFIT OF THE DAY
Lady jacket sweaters are back for another season. The classic blue sweater with the gold buttons looks beautiful with a skirt for dress or a pair of jeans for a day doing errands. Pair it with wardrobe staples, ballet flats, a white t-shirt and jeans and are ready for a day running errands, coffee with friends or a day at home.
UNTIL TOMORROW
Are you looking forward to Fall?
I hope you enjoyed the recipes, links and books I discovered this week on Friday Favorites. Thank you for spending part of your day with me, your time is valuable and I am grateful that you spend a little of each day with me. Have a wonderful weekend.
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