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February 27, 2025
Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot: Come Join Us!
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Winter of Fairbanks Jr.: The Rise of Catherine The Great (1934)
This winter I am watching movies starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. This week I watched The Rise of Catherine The Great from 1934. The movie was also just called Catherine The Great at one point. I watched it on YouTube and the reproduction of it wasn’t really very good at some points. This movie, which takes …
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February 25, 2025
Top Ten Tuesday: Books Set In Another Time
|| Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. || Today’s prompt was: Books Set in Another Time (These can be historical, futuristic, alternate universes, or even in a world where you’re not sure when it takes place you just know it’s not right now.) This prompt wasn’t difficult this week because most of …
February 23, 2025
Sunday Bookends: The Get Rid of Hiccups Trick, what I thought of the Miss Marple Short Stories, and a Paris movie marathon being planned
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. Throughout my childhood and teenage years my family and I would visit my mom’s side of the …
February 22, 2025
Saturday Afternoon Chat: Remembering the times I had to drive in the snow and hated it
This week we were surprised by snow and unfortunately it wasn’t a pleasant surprise since I was driving in it at the time. I thought it was merely going to be flurries, but oh no…it started sticking. Driving with snow on the road? No. that’s not something I do. Like ever anymore. But there I …
February 21, 2025
Fiction Friday: Gladwynn Grant Gets Her Footing Chapters 7 and 8
Welcome to a serial fiction series of my book Gladwynn Grant Gets Her Footing, a light cozy mystery. You will be able to read chapters of this book each Friday. You can also find a list of chapters HERE. If you don’t want to wait for the next installment or click through each chapter, and would …
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February 20, 2025
Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot: Come Link Up With Us!
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Winter of Fairbanks: Sinbad the Sailor. Not even my crush on Fairbanks Jr. could get me through this one.
This week for Winter of Fairbanks Jr. I watched Sinbad the Sailor. Oh my, readers. I watched this one with a face you make after you’ve taken gross tasting medicine. Not even my crush on Fairbanks Jr. could get me through this one. What was I even thinking? I really should have read up on …
February 19, 2025
Classic movie impressions: The Stranger (1946)
A few weeks ago, my husband suggested we watch an Orson Welles movie. Since I’ve liked other movies by and starring Orson, I agreed to it. The Stranger was released in 1946 and tells the story of a war crimes investigator who tracks a high-ranking Nazi fugitive to a small Connecticut town. Welles both directed …
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February 18, 2025
Top Ten Tuesday: 10 books I never reviewed on my blog or social media
|| Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. || Today’s prompt is: 10 Books I Never Reviewed (Share the titles of books you never reviewed on your blog/tiktok/insta/etc. and if you liked them or not!) This one was hard for me because I have actually reviewed most of the books I have read in …
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