Lisa R. Howeler's Blog, page 11
May 9, 2025
The Hardy Boys and The Flickering Torch Mystery (with spoilers)
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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May 8, 2025
Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot
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. Look for the …
Springtime in Paris: Charade
Erin from Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs and I have been watching movies that take place in Paris for the last couple of months. For our last week, we watched Charade with Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant. Directed by Stanley Donen this movie was released in 1996 and tells the story of Reggie Lambert (Hepburn) …
May 7, 2025
A review of Whose Body? By Dorothy Sayers
Whose Body? was my first book by Dorothy Sayers, and I enjoyed it more than I thought I might when I first started it. Ironically, the book was also Dorothy’s debut book, written in 1923. As I got into the book there were some references to ethnicities that I thought were a bit inappropriate but …
May 5, 2025
Tell Me More About: Mildred “Millie” Wirt Benson (The original Carolyn Keene)
Who was Mildred “Millie” Wirt Benson? Mildred, or as many called her, Millie, wasn’t an amateur detective, but she was the co-creator of one of the most famous teen amateur sleuths in the United States — Nancy Drew. For 50 years very few people knew that Millie helped create Nancy Drew. Until 1980, many readers …
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May 4, 2025
Sunday Bookends: Cool bookstores and I finally finished The Two Towers
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. This past week was a long, rough week with some medical challenges for my elderly parents. I’m …
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May 1, 2025
Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot
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. Look for the …
Springtime in Paris: The Intouchables
Since we couldn’t get to Paris for Spring, Erin from Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs and I have been watching movies this spring that take place in Paris. This week we watched The Intouchables, a 2012 movie I suggested when I searched for movies that took place in Paris. This was a rated R movie …
April 30, 2025
April 29, 2025
Nancy Drew is 95! History, creation, lasting influence, controversy, and more.
Nancy Drew is 95 years old as of April 28, 2025!! She’s looking pretty good for someone her age, isn’t she? The first Nancy Drew book, The Secret of the Old Clock, was released on April 28, 1930. Two more books, The Hidden Staircase and The Bungalow Mystery. Since then, there have been millions of …
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