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November 15, 2024
Book review/recommendation: The Maestro’s Missing Melody
The first thing to note about The Maestro’s Missing Melody by Amy Walsh is that it can be read alone, even though it is part of a series. The second thing to note is that this is a very well-written sweet romance that had me captivated from the beginning to the end. Also, I think …
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November 14, 2024
Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot: Come Link With Us!
Welcome back to another Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot! Whoot! This link up is hosted by Marsha in the Middle, Melynda from Scratch Made Food & DYI Homemade Household, Sue from Women Living Well After 50, and me. Look for the link party to go live on Thursdays at 9:30pm EDT. This is a blog link-up where we not only …
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Comfy, Cozy Cinema: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Erin from Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs and I have been watching movies from September through November for our Comfy, Cozy Cinema. For this week Erin suggested Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), which I had never seen and wasn’t sure I wanted to until I watched the trailer and thought it looked like …
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November 13, 2024
Classic Movie Impressions: A Woman of Distinction
Lately I’ve been watching very old movies that are not well known and really enjoying them. I’m not watching them for anything other than for myself, but I thought I’d tell my blog readers about them in case you are interested as well. Many of them really hold up. I’ve been watching these movies either …
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November 10, 2024
Sunday Bookends: birthdays, baking pies, and finishing up the third Gladwynn book
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 week I’m joining up with Kimba at Caffeinated Reviewer, Deb at Readerbuzz, and Kathyrn …
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November 7, 2024
Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot
Welcome back to another Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot! Whoot! This link up is hosted by Marsha in the Middle, Melynda from Scratch Made Food & DYI Homemade Household, Sue from Women Living Well After 50, and me. Look for the link party to go live on Thursdays at 9:30pm EDT. This is a blog link-up where we not only …
Comfy, Cozy Cinema: Bringing Up Baby
This week we had to switch up the movie we were watching because Amazon and Frevee and all the other free streaming services removed Skylark, which is the second movie in the Sarah, Plain, and Tall series. Instead we chose Bringing Up Baby at my suggestion because I wanted something funny and goofy but also …
November 5, 2024
Movie change for this week’s Comfy, Cozy Cinema
I’m sorry this post is late, but we had to change our movie this week for the Comfy, Cozy Cinema because it turns out that Skylark is no longer streaming anywhere. Erin and I decided to change the movie to Bringing Up Baby — a screwball comedy with Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant. This is …
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Top Ten Tuesday: Ten books with cats on the cover
|| Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. || Today the theme was top ten covers with [an item of your choice] n the front and I chose top ten covers with cats because I have a lot of books with cats on the front. That’s probably because I read a lot of …
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November 3, 2024
Sunday Bookends: The many injuries of Little Miss, fun and light mysteries, and watching classic 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. This week I’m joining up with Kimba at Caffeinated Reviewer, Deb at Readerbuzz, and Kathyrn …
