Happy Friday, friends! It’s my husband’s birthday today so we are planning to go out this evening to celebrate at his favorite place. I also got him a really cool birthday gift this year that I secretly wanted to review for our site. Have you heard of Trunk Club before? My husband wanted to update his wardrobe with a couple of good pieces so I thought it might be a fun experience for him to work with a stylist and have a shipment sent to him for his birthday. I don’t see a lot of reviews for men’s clothing and I am curious what his experience will be with that. I’ll let you know how that works out next week- he’s pretty excited to try out his new clothes!
Here are a few other things that are making me REALLY happy this week!
A Book I Could Not Put Down
I rarely talk about books before the end of the month so if I share a book in the happy list, you can bet it will be in my top ten of the year list. In less than 24 hours, I consumed The Forgetting Time and I can’t recommend this one enough. This is the author’s debut novel and it is unlike anything I have ever read before. I don’t want to delve too much into it because half of the fun, for me, ended up piecing everything together myself. It’s a bit like a mystery as you try to solve the puzzle of a child’s unusual first years of life. The story intertwines with a doctor nearing the end of his career due to a deadly diagnosis who could be the only one who could make Noah and his mother’s life better. What Noah is suffering from is beyond what any parent could comprehend.
Please get it this weekend, you must! You will not be disappointed in this book or the writing from this author.
One of My Favorite Books Came to Television
11/22/63 remains one of my all-time favorite books in the history of books ever amen. It has been such an incredible treat to see 11/22/63 come to life in an eight part series on Hulu. Since we don’t have cable, we rely a lot on Hulu for our television fixes and they are really stepping up their game with some original programming.
Is it okay to say that I was incredibly nervous about this? What if they ruined my favorite book? I have to say, it is so much better than I hoped for. The costuming is fantastic, the details in each scene are just gorgeous, the acting is phenomenal, and it has been holding so true to Stephen King’s incredible work. It’s everything I wanted it to be and more.
Since they only issue one episode a week, it has been something to look forward to into in the evenings with my hubby and I’m looking forward to watching that fourth episode this weekend!
Have you watched it yet? I’d love to hear what you think too!
If that isn’t enough of a reason to get a Hulu membership, check out this new original series trailer from the producer of Friday Night Lights & Parenthood below! I’m so excited about this series too!!
Doesn’t that look SO GOOD too? I love good television!
Subscribe & Save Deliveries
My time feels super valuable these days and there are a lot of things that I seem to have trouble keeping stocked or that require me to go to separate stores all the time. Two things that I am always running out of are vitamins (thanks to our new regime) and hair color (these kids give me gray hair- ha!) so I thought I would give Subscribe & Save a spin. I sat down with all of our vitamins and figured out the quantity we would need each month and then adjusted shipment for each one to how often we might need it. I also decided I would put my favorite hair color on the subscribe & save agenda so that it would help remind me when it was time to color my hair and would save me an additional trip to the drugstore.
I love that it saves you money on each order, that you have free doorstep delivery, and that I can cancel or adjust things as I need them.
I’m a slow embracer of things like this, but this week we ran out of vitamins and waiting on my doorstep happened to be just what we needed thanks to this subscription service.
Happy weekend, friends!
This week I’m…
Reading: Divergent by Veronica Roth
Eating: Sheet Pan Pork Chops & Veggies (I swear we eat this once a week now!)
Watching: Master of None. We are on the final episode and I am so sad! It was an incredible series- a bit raunchy, but surprisingly profound!
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