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This summer I am watching Angela Lansbury movies for the Summer of Angela. Up this week was A Life At Stake, another crime noir “B-movie” and another chance for Angela to show her evil side. Honestly, she’s been evil in a lot of the movies I watched with her throughout this summer, which cracks me … Continue reading Summer of Angela: A Life At Stake (1954) with minor spoilers

Welcome to the Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot, where we offer a place for bloggers to link up and get a fresh set of eyes on their posts. We also feature one blog a week, letting our readers know about the blog and providing a link so readers can learn more about it. Please feel free … Continue reading Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot August 15

“I made up my mind that I would pop back and do the strong, manly thing by lying low in my flat and telling Jeeves to inform everybody who called that I wasn’t at home.” The Inimitable Jeeves was my first P.G. Wodehouse book and I enjoyed it so much I’m already reading another one … Continue reading Book review: The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

Today I’m giving an update on my 15 Books of Summer Reading Challenge that I am participating in with Emma at Words and Peace and Annabel @ AnnaBookBel.  I originally made a list of 15 books I planned to read this summer, but later dropped that down to 10. After I posted the blog post I decided … Continue reading 15 Books of Summer Reading Challenge Update

I meant to add these highlights from the July A Good Book and A Cup of Tea link party when I posted the new link-up last week, but it slipped my mind, so I am sharing a separate post today. I’ll get better at this as the link-up goes on! The highlights from July: The … Continue reading  Highlights from the July A Good Book and a Cup of Tea Link Up

It’s time for our Sunday morning chat. On Sundays, I ramble about what’s been going on, what the rest of the family and I have been reading and watching, and what I’ve been writing. Some weeks I share what I am listening to. I made a comment to someone in the comment section last week that the bear I saw … Continue reading Sunday Bookends: My dog and a black bear had a stand off! Eek!

This summer I am watching Angela Lansbury movies for the Summer of Angela. This week I watched The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), which I had never seen before. I’ve also never read the book that it is based on. I had to sit and process this one for a bit and also watch a … Continue reading Summer of Angela: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Welcome to the Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot, where we offer a place for bloggers to link up and get a fresh set of eyes on their posts. We also feature one blog a week, letting our readers know about the blog and providing a link so readers can learn more about it. Please feel free … Continue reading Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot August 8

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Today’s prompt was:  Genre freebie (Pick any genre you’d like and build a list around it. You can even narrow the topic if you’d like, such as: thrillers with unreliable narrators, fantasy romance with fae characters, or historical romance with suspense elements.) My choice was 10 … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: 10 mystery/cozy mystery book series with men as the protagonist

Here I am with another recap of an episode from The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries show from 1977. As I’ve mentioned before, in the first season of this series, the episodes switched back and forth from Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew episodes and in the next season, they started to join together. Eventually, they began … Continue reading A recap of The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries: The Mystery of the Ghostwriter’s Cruise (with spoilers)