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January 28, 2025
Top Ten Tuesday: New-to-me Authors I Discovered in 2024
|| Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. || Today’s prompt is New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2024 I did discover quite a few New-To-Me Authors last year, but for the most part I stuck to the familiar. Authors who were new to me were: 2. Jesse Sutanto, author of Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice …
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January 25, 2025
Sunday Bookends: Cold weather (still), planned reads for February, and a lot of Edwardian Farm
Last week was very cold and I chatted about it a bit on my Saturday Afternoon Chat yesterday, if you’d like to go read that. Today is a day of relaxing and taking part in the Crafternoon zoom event with some other ladies and Erin from Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs. We are going to …
Saturday Afternoon Chat: Cold weather, evil, spell-casting cats, and family history
This past week our area was plunged into an arctic cold that had me wishing I could wrap myself in a cacoon of blankets and only crawl out to use the potty and get snacks. I spent much of the beginning of the week acting like anyone who stepped outside our door into the arctic …
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January 24, 2025
Classic Movie Impressions (Winter of Douglas Fairbanks Jr.): Gunga Din
Up this week for the Winter of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is Gunga Din (1939), said to be one of his most famous movies. I am going to let you know right up front that I rarely hate classic movies that I watch, but I pretty much hated this movie. This movie was a train wreck …
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January 23, 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. I hope that …
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January 22, 2025
Voices from the past: The Fate of a Brother
When some people research the past, they find it interesting but are somewhat disconnected from what happened. They may read something sad and say, “Oh, well, how awful.” They feel down for a bit, and they move on. When you research your family history, though — reading letters from them, getting to know them through …
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Civil War Letters From My Ancestors Part II: The Fate of a Brother
When some people research the past, they find it interesting but are somewhat disconnected from what happened. They may read something sad and say, “Oh, well, how awful.” They feel down for a bit, and they move on. When you research your family history, though — reading letters from them, getting to know them through …
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January 21, 2025
Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Most Recent Additions to my Book Collection
|| Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. || Today’s prompt is to share The Ten Most Recent Additions to My Book Collection (or to your to-read list!) This one wasn’t too hard for me to do because I had ordered five from Thriftbooks right after Christmas and before that there was a …
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January 19, 2025
Sunday Bookends: It’s cold. No. Really cold. Reading the same books but planning for others. Crafternoon Again! And some podcasts I want to listen to.
Due to the illness of children or the cold of the northeast I have not left my house in two weeks and though I am a homebody, I must admit it is becoming a little depressing. And based on the fact I feel like I am starting to get sick and dangerously cold temps are …
January 17, 2025
Classic Movie Impressions: The Prisoner of Zenda
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) is a cinematic spectacle. Grand halls, sweeping ballrooms, wildly decorated courtyards, and captivating costumes. I absolutely loved it and am so glad I stumbled on to Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and decided to do a marathon of his movies to learn more about him so that I could discover this movie. …
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