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Our essential holiday viewing
Movies we’ll actually watch

• Fantastic Mr Fox
  
• A Town Called Panic
  
• Die Hard
  
• Howl’s Moving Castle
  
• Nightmare Before Christmas
  Movies we’ll turn on and mostly ignore
• Elf
  
• Home Alone
  
• The rest of the Die Hard movies
  
• Frozen
  Shows we’ll have playing in the background frequently
• Adventure Time
  
• Gilmore Girls
  
• How It’s Made
  
• Drunk History
  

…to live in absolute freedom is neither possible nor desirable. Without rules based on past experience it is easy to make costly mistakes; without a sense of ultimate purpose it is difficult to sustain courage when the unavoidable tragedies of life strike.

Currently reading: The Evolving Self by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 📚

An easy fantasy read with medieval-ish spycraft and political intrigue. Plot was strained and it dragged a bit; cut by 100 pages and it would be a better book. I liked the characters but probably won’t read the rest in this series.

Finished reading: Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling 📚

Retrospective, financial anniemueller.com/posts/ret…

“We are what happens when the seemingly unthinkable celebrity rises to power.”

Currently reading: The Book of Joan by Lidia Yuknavitch 📚

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Expect obstacles anniemueller.com/posts/exp…

Emotional buffer zone anniemueller.com/posts/emo…

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Finished reading: Ravenwood by Nathan Lowell 📚

Enjoyed this one. A middle-aged woman protagonist, cozy feel, herbs and nature, and some good old-fashioned arse-kicking of villainous bullies.

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Finished reading: Solito by Javier Zamora 📚

A heart-wrenching read, especially in these days.

Joy is in the doing anniemueller.com/posts/joy…