I just finished Horse by Geraldine Brooks in audio. It's a 4 star read that could've been a 5 star read if she hadn't crammed too many current issues into the last few chapters. That's a pet peeve of mIne, and it's particularly jarring when much of the storyline is historical. Still, I really liked it over all.

This inveterate Anne fan gives a hearty "hear, hear!"

I like Hot and Flashy's videos on YouTube. I found my "holy grail" foundation by watching her.

For sure! My youngest is double digits as of a few weeks ago, and it's just. . . Sad. He's a sweetheart, @Elizabeth86!

I have thought about this. I think (maybe?) mine will be slightly easier because I have a variety of blues, including chambray blue, and that seems to be a year-round color. I also have a couple of berries and one that leans more burgundy, and I think that helps, too. I'm also interested in the "sister" colors that harmonize. (For example, I can reach toward some winter colors, I think.) Anyway, I just find it all interesting!

Thanks! I googled Kibbe and skimmed a lengthy article and gathered that it's complicated. I think YouTube may be the way to go. 🤣

I haven't! I do remember some ads about Dressing Your Truth but I don't know anything about it. Off to google!

I actually literally just had this thought this evening! I was considering buying a blouse that is on sale right now in "my" yellow (& the only one I get, at that! 🤣), and I thought, "I could just run by the consignment store tomorrow and see what they have since now it's easy to shop--by color!"

Do you pay attention to your palette when you shop for clothes?

Thanks for finding this old thread! I remember Color Me Beautiful and was always a little secretly interested in having it done. Thinking about such things really wasn't a part of my upbringing, for better or for worse. I guess I'm in my second teenage-hood. 🤣

Mine was done by a Created Colorful consultant, which is quite the IG sensation right now. My palette looks like this:

And I have had a lot of fun with it! It turns out I'm a "cool summer" (a.k.a. "True summer," I think). It has given me a new hobby that mostly involves looking at clothing pictures online and comparing colors and looking at outfit ideas. I know maybe this is frivolous and maybe some people don't even think it's a "thing," but I am enjoying it. Has anybody else ever done this?

Thanks for this thread, @Not_a_Number. I've had an exhausting weekend and have just been off. This thread makes me feel less alone.

Regarding Jones Road Beauty, I have also been intrigued. I watched some YouTube reviews and the fact that it's so sticky even a long while after application, to the point that the wearer's hair got stuck to it, helped me decide against even trying it.

Thanks for the recommendation. I actually found the story line, especially the part about Cal's moral compass and the parts about the young men leaving the countryside or giving up, quite compelling. I didn't particularly love how the mystery was resolved, but it was slightly less important to me in this novel than the characters. It reminded me a little of Inspector Gamache in that way.

I listened to Tana French's The Searcher in audio, which was very well done. I enjoyed the story and its setting (Irish countryside) a lot. It goes have a LOT of language, particularly the F word. I mean--a LOT. That's the only thing that gives me pause about continuing with French's novels. I can tolerate it some, but again, this was a lot. ETA: too bad I'm not getting paid for how many time I used the phrase a lot--I'd have A LOT of money. 🤣

I finished The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell this morning. I would call this an entertaining *almost* cozy mystery in which the murder is secondary to all the character building. This is yet another one of those books told from multiple perspectives. In this case, it's a whopping eight different characters or so. With that many characters, I suppose it's not unexpected that a few of their voices sound similar to me. (Well, maybe not similar, but not different enough to be distinguished from the others by anything but plot. Can you tell character development is the MOST important part of any story for me?). Anyway, I enjoyed this one a good bit, despite any "flaws" I might've perceived.

Oops--wrong thread.

You've just described me better than I could've described myself. I am extremely verbal, though. I'm curious to know how many of us INFPs tested as gifted in school. 🤔 I'm one. 🙋🏻‍♀️

My child was traumatized emotionally by such a depiction at such a young age and hasn't looked at church the same way since. I agree completely.

Great idea! I'm having two egg hunts this week at the library where I work, and this might help the unequal distribution of goods

Scout, I am so very sorry. I cannot imagine. I live about 150 mi south of Nashville, so this has hit closer to home than any previous act. At the very least, may it stir us to action.

I have severe PF and have recently started trying for minimalist, wide-toe box shoes, and my feet thank me. My Altras are the only shoes I don't dread wearing at least a little. I have read good things about Within shoes from Amazon as a low-budget intro to wide toe box, so once I score a gift card from my Fetch app, I'll be buying these to wear with skirts and dresses. ETA: Xero shoes are another, more expensive, option.

I didn't realize Gerry Brooks has a book! (And I rhyme. . .🤣)

Technically this was a March finish but I'm just now getting around to posting it. I listened to Weyward by Emilia Hart. It was an excellently done audiobook, but I have mixed feelings about the story. With the exception of a couple of implausible plot points (that really got on my nerves!), I'd say it is a really well-written novel. However, and I say this as someone who isn't terribly sensitive to such things, this author really doesn't like men. It's the story of three women from the same family in different time periods (one of the newly-popular multiple viewpoint novels) who suffer because of men. The first woman the reader meets is being tried for witchcraft in England in the 1600s; the second is a sixteen year old girl who is all but held captive in her English manor home during World War I; and the third is a modern woman with a completely evil, abusive boyfriend whom she flees at the beginning of the novel. They are all tied together by their similar experiences and also their familiarity with nature, especially birds and insects, that will do their bidding. This part of the story doesn't come out fully until toward the end. Depending on how you view it, you could call it magical realism or witchcraft, I suppose. A heavy theme in the novel is the poor medical treatment of women and a negative view of sex due to all of the abuse. Did I like it? Hard to say. 🤣