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July 4, 2025
Summer of Angela: Gaslight (1944)
This summer I am watching Angela Lansbury movies for the Summer of Angela. This week I watched Gaslight (1944), which was Angela’s first movie and also her first nomination for an Academy Award. I think I stated before that she won the Oscar, but she didn’t. Whoops! She was 18 years old when she portrayed …
July 3, 2025
Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot July 4th!
Happy Fourth of July!! (To us Americans anyhow!) 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 …
July 2, 2025
A Good Book And A Cup of Tea Link Up for July
Welcome to the A Good Book & A Cup of Tea Monthly Link Party for book and reading posts! Each link party will be open for a month. Some highlights from last month’s linkup: Thank you for linking up, ladies! I plan to feature more bloggers each month but since this is just getting started …
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July 1, 2025
Top Ten Tuesday: The Ten Most Recent Books I’ve Read
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Today’s prompt is: Freebie/Throwback (Come up with a topic you’d like to do or go back and do an old topic you missed or just want to do again!) So this week, I chose to share my last ten reads so far this year with quick, two …
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June 30, 2025
Summer of Angela: Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
This summer I am watching Angela Lansbury movies. This week — well, last week — I watched Bedknobs and Broomsticks. First, a movie description: During the Battle of Britain, Miss Eglantine Price (Angela Lansbury), a cunning witch-in-training, decides to use her supernatural powers to defeat the Nazi menace. She sets out to accomplish this task …
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June 29, 2025
Sunday Bookends: Hot weather and a pretty Little Women book plus what I’m reading
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. The heat this past week was awful. Just awful. We couldn’t get out house to cool down …
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June 27, 2025
Newsletter for June: Gladwynn books on sale and a update on book four
Welcome to my June newsletter! That’s right. I’m going to try to do this once a month again and here on my main blog instead of Substack. I’ll have a page set up for you to find past newsletters. All three Gladwynn books on sale All three ebooks in the Gladwynn Grant Mystery series are …
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June 26, 2025
Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot June 27 (In memory of Patrick Weseman)
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 …
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Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot June 27
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 …
June 25, 2025
Hodge Podge: What is adventure?
Hodgepodge is hosted by From This Side of the Pond. 1. What does adventure mean to you? To me adventure means experiencing something different from the normal everyday. It’s something unique that captures my attention and makes me excited to see what is coming next. 2. What are your thoughts on tipping? What businesses or …
