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Hello Lovelies!

It's been another week, another cold front here in Missoula. Good thing my snowflake graphic is still mildly seasonal!

This week I...
found a puppy with my roommate! It took us a few hours to get him back to his owner, but we managed it eventually!
watched Sherlock Episode 1 with my friends.
watched Teen Wolf!!!! (I'm too obsessed with this show, it's probably detrimental to my health.)
watched There Will be Blood, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (the original, it was darling!), Days of Heaven, and some Criminal Minds.
went to Trivia Night with a couple coworkers. We got second place! It was pretty awesome.

This week I read...
the rest of Neil Gaiman's Fragile Things. Check out my review here.
some of Special by Scott Westerfeld. It's hard work.
some of The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster for my bookclub!

Still waiting for The Ask and the Answer and Monsters of Men --grrrrr, should have gone with extra quick shipping.

This week I added only a few books to my collection:
The top left is a collection of French fairy tales which my awesome roommate brought back from visiting her parents with me!
The bottom left is one of the books she loved from when she was little which I picked up for her (and a little bit for me to read during MG March!) It's called Jewel Kingdom, and it's the most darling thing I've seen recently.
Middle top is How Zoe Made Her Dreams (Mostly) Come True  which looks like a fantastic quick romantic read from Sarah Strohmeyer. I'm psyched!
Middle Bottom is For Darkness Shows the Stars which I hadn't heard of until it came in to my work. And it's a Sci-Fi/Fantasy retelling of Persuasion by Jane Austen! I got so excited and it looked so good that I had to buy it immediately.
Top right is the Star Wars Cookbook! To make you even more jealous, it came with cookie cutters of Darth Vader's head, Yoda's head, and  R2-D2!
Bottom right is The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. This is another one that I've been looking at buying for a while and finally caved.

That's what my week looked like! I'm heading to a friend's to watch the second episode of Sherlock! How was your week? What did you get up to?

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