Three Thoughts Thursday

1) Beauty and the Beast was SO amazing last night. I've seen the original animated movie countless times (of course), and I've seen it as a play twice (I cried both times) and read many re-tellings of the story, so I was so excited to see this new movie. I also love Emma Watson (what's not to love?!) and I think she was incredible. I'm not sure that my kids are anywhere near ready for it but I can't wait until they are. It was perfect - I loved that it was a bit more French than the animated movie, and the costumes and the new songs were amazing. I also really enjoyed the evening out with one of my best friends who I don't see often enough. It was exactly what my soul needed this week.

Here I am in my shirt that I made and red rose earrings:

2) I recently discovered this Facebook group which is basically just an excuse to chat with random people about books all the time. Think Show Us Your Books, but every day. I was enjoying the Modern Mrs. Darcy book club for a few months, but it costs money (and the FB group is free), and it uses another platform so I was never logging into it. It is kinda fun. I am grateful for the areas of the Internet to chat books because although many people in my everyday life read a lot, we aren't always reading the same books around the same time, or we have wildly different tastes, OR, we don't see each other enough to chat books in a lot of depth.

3) If you loved Serial, you might want to check out this new podcast coming next week. It's not the same, but it does sound awesome. I'm excited because Brian and I listened to Serial together and we haven't really had a podcast that we both enjoyed since then!

Linking up today with Kristin and Amanda.