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February 6, 2025
Winter of Fairbanks: The Exile (1947)
This winter I am watching movies starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. I had planned to watch Having Wonderful Time, this week but I couldn’t find it streaming anywhere. Instead, I watched The Exile from 1947 after I found it streaming on YouTube. It wasn’t great quality, but it was good enough that I could make out …
February 5, 2025
Book Review/Recommendation: The Body in the Library
The Body in the Library (A Miss Marple Mystery) by Agatha Christie Description: It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing an evening dress and heavy makeup, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did she …
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Surprise! Gladwynn Grant Shakes the Family Tree is out in the world!
I decided to release the third book in the Gladwynn Grant Mystery series on Tuesday. Well…..I actually wanted it to release today (Wednesday), but Amazon decided to actually publish the book early after telling me it could take 72 hours to go live. I had said I would release it on February 19, but…it was …
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February 4, 2025
Winter of Fairbanks Jr. movie change
If you’ve been following along on my blog you know that I have been watching Douglas Fairbanks Jr. movies this winter. I was supposed to watch Having Wonderful Time this week, but it turns out I didn’t do a very good job making sure these movies were streaming somewhere and can’t find this one before …
Top Ten Tuesday: 10 books I planned to read in 2024 but didn’t get to
|| Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. || Today’s prompt is: 2024 Releases I Was Excited to Read but Still Haven’t Gotten To (will you be prioritizing these this year?) I don’t really pay attention to new releases very well because I read all over the place and most of my reads …
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February 2, 2025
Sunday Bookends: Is that a gunshot or is the wood on my porch just cracking in the cold?
Welcome to my Sunday Chat where I ramble about what’s been going on in my world, what the rest of the family and I have been reading, watching, listening to, and what I’ve been writing. Last week our weather started to warm up after two weeks or more of nasty cold. That meant going outside …
February 1, 2025
Saturday Afternoon Chat: Staying warm in the winter in the 80s and an unusual cure for my knee pain
Good Saturday afternoon! As I write this I am actually sipping grape juice instead of my regular morning tea, but I am going to go grab some tea in a moment. I have not tried any new tea flavors. I know. So boring. How about you? Any new tea flavors? During our horrible cold snap …
January 31, 2025
Fiction Friday: Gladwynn Grant Gets Her Footing Chapters 1 and 2
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 …
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January 30, 2025
Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot: Come Link Up With Us!
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 them. Look for the …
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Winter of Douglas Fairbanks Jr.: The Young In Heart
This winter I am watching Douglas Fairbanks Jr. movies for fun and this week I watched The Young in Heart. It was such a refreshing change after the disaster I felt Gunga Din was last week. This movie was full of hilarious moments, charming characters, sweet transformations, and hopeful overtones. I absolutely loved Douglas in …
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