Ivy and Ellie: July 2019

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Li Xian

Even in a romance, you're wishing it was a bromance. That Xian..so stoic in Go, Go Squid. You find yourself wanting to rewrite the story.

Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Machines like me

What if the Beatles got back together? Lots to think about in this new novel. It's not just about robots.

Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding.

Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda’s assistance, he co-designs Adam’s personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever – a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan’s subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns of the power to invent things beyond our control.

Monday, July 29, 2019

Back to school!

Vera Bradley

Saturday, July 27, 2019

when a good girl turns bad

A manga writer is thrown into his own story. Is there a way to write himself out of it and resolve the second female leads bad vibe? Unexpected is a Chinese drama you just might find yourself bingeing this summer. Now on Viki.

Friday, July 26, 2019

Back to school!

Vera Bradley

Thursday, July 25, 2019

It's a mix!

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Who's that girl?

Zheng Shuang takes a leap in Cry me a River aka River runs to You as the troubled youth hanging on to first love til the very end. Far from her robotic nature in Love O2O, we get to see her angst side as a girl from the streets. Now on Viki.

Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Speaking of summer

a thriller through and through — but probably not in the way most readers would expect.

On a cold December evening, Autumn Spencer's twin sister Summer walks to the roof of their shared Harlem brownstone and is never seen again—the door to the roof is locked, and no footsteps are found. Faced with authorities indifferent to another missing woman, Autumn must pursue answers on her own, all while grieving her mother's recent death.

With her friends and neighbors, Autumn pretends to hold up through the crisis. She falls into an affair with Summer's boyfriend to cope with the disappearance of a woman they both loved. But the loss becomes too great, the mystery too inexplicable, and Autumn starts to unravel, all the while becoming obsessed with murdered women and the men who kill them.

In Speaking of Summer, critically acclaimed author Kalisha Buckhanon has created a postmodern, fast-paced story of urban peril and victim invisibility, and the fight to discover truth at any cost.

Monday, July 22, 2019

Ruffle it up!

Billabong is the way to go for summer days and nights!

Sunday, July 21, 2019

Remember Paris, Texas?

Friday, July 19, 2019

Lace of summer

Billabong brings beauty within summer.

Thursday, July 18, 2019

it's a mix!

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

VC Andrews' HEAVEN

This project started in 2017. Summer heats up on LIFETIME.

Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers a dark secret that changes everything she thought she knew about her family. Then tragedy tears her world apart and she must forge her own way in the cruel, unknown world. Starring Annalise Basso, Chris McNally, Julie Benz.

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

The ingredients of Us

Elle, an accomplished baker, has a recipe for every event in her life. But when she discovers her husband’s infidelity, she doesn’t know what to make of it. Jam, maybe? Definitely jam.

Fed up with the stale crumbs of her marriage, Elle revisits past recipes and the events that inspired them. A recipe for scones reminds her of her father’s death, cinnamon rolls signify the problematic courtship with her husband, and a batch of chocolate cookies casts Elle in a less-than-flattering light. Looking back, Elle soon realizes that some ingredients were missing all along.

After confronting her husband, Elle indulges her sweet tooth in other ways, including a rebound that just leaves her more confused. As secrets from the past collide with the conflicts of the present, Elle struggles to manage her bakery business and maintain the relationships most important to her. In piecing her life back together, will Elle learn to take the bitter with the sweet?

Monday, July 15, 2019

It's a wrap!

Billabong! Something to wear with everything this summer.

Friday, July 12, 2019

Jump into summer!

Billabong! Lov'n this summer lounge look!

Thursday, July 11, 2019

It's a mix!

Wednesday, July 10, 2019

The Lost Tomb 2

A whole new cast starring Neo Hou and Chen Yi (a would be Yang Yang). Talk about being in the panic zone! But if it's adventure you love... Be sure to catch this one (40 episodes!). Gotta say this one goes places I can hardly imagine. The drama is only based on 2 chapters from the novel. Its epic, although as they are in the tomb, they have plenty of time to fill in the backstory which is in a different color by the way.

Tuesday, July 9, 2019

the rumor

It's a summer thriller!

A single mom discovers just how deadly gossip can be in this irresistible debut thriller inspired by a sensational true crime story, for fans of Big Little Lies, The Couple Next Door, and The Widow.

Joanna is desperate to ingratiate herself with a popular clique of mothers at her son's new school. But when she tries to impress them by repeating a rumor she overheard at the school gates, there's no going back. . . .

Rumor has it that a notorious killer, a woman who has been released from prison years after her brutal crime, is living under a new identity in Joanna's seaside town. So who is the supposedly reformed murderer now living in their neighborhood? Suspicion falls on everyone.

Joanna becomes obsessed with the case, pawing through decades-old records in an attempt to name the killer. But her curiosity not only ostracizes her from the community, but exposes her son and his father to a heartless psychopath who has killed--and may kill again.

How dangerous can one rumor become? And how far will Joanna go to protect those she loves from harm, when she realizes what she's unleashed?

Joanna is going to regret the day she ever said a word.

Monday, July 8, 2019

High of summer jeans...

Billabong. It'll ride you on into fall!

Sunday, July 7, 2019

Get your groove on...

Saturday, July 6, 2019

Tina Boo

Friday, July 5, 2019

One of my favorite scenes from My True Friend!

Thursday, July 4, 2019

Happy 4th of July Mix!

Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Carry Wang

He's a superstar! From living the life with TFboys to being the beautiful adventurer in Eagles and Youngster. Oh, he's the one to watch for!

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Where the crawdads sing

For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life–until the unthinkable happens.

Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver and Karen Russell, Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.

Monday, July 1, 2019

Summer lov'n!

Etsy