Lisa R. Howeler's Blog, page 11
June 24, 2025
Episode Recap: The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, The Mystery of the Fallen Angel
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 …
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June 22, 2025
Sunday Bookends: Link parties, finished two books, & watching Angela movies
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 shared what I did last week in my Saturday Afternoon Chat yesterday. It was actually my …
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June 21, 2025
Saturday Evening Chat: Meeting fellow bloggers, no link party here, and flowers are blooming
Hello! Good Saturday evening. This was supposed to go up this afternoon, but life got busy so it got delayed. Sit down and have some tea and a snack with me. My sister-in-law sent a whole bunch of tea with my brother when he visited last week so I have a variety for you to …
June 20, 2025
Summer of Angela: National Velvet (1944)
This summer I am watching movies starring or co-starring Angela Lansbury. Up this week I watched National Velvet, which Angela only has a very small part in. It was her third movie and she was 19-years old. This was after she had won an Oscar in her first movie, Gaslight. This was certainly not a …
June 19, 2025
Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot June 20
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June 17, 2025
Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books I want to read this summer
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Today’s prompt is: Books on My Summer 2025 to-Read List I have already posted about 15 books I hope to read this summer so I’ve narrowed it down to the top ten I hope to finish by the end of the summer. I’ve also swapped some …
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June 16, 2025
Summer of Angela: The Manchurian Candidate
This summer I am watching movies starring or including Angela Lansbury. This week I watched The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Angela was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress for her performance as Eleanor Shaw and, wow, did she deserve that nomination. First, a description of the movie from Google: Near the end of the …
June 12, 2025
Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot June 12
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Episode recap: The Hardy Boys The Mystery of the Flying Courier
I have been sharing my takes on the episodes from The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries show from the late 70s off and on for the last few months. The show was, of course, based on the separate series of books from the 1930s and switched off between featuring The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew each …
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June 10, 2025
Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Books on My Wishlist
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Today’s prompt is: Bookish Wishes (List the top 10 books you’d love to own and include a link to your wishlist so that people can grant your wishes. Make sure you link your wishlist to your mailing address or include the email address associated with your …
