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July 11, 2024
Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot July 11: Come Link Up With Us!
Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot on July 11 Welcome to another Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot 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. We took a break last week, partly because …
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July 10, 2024
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries Season 1 Episode 2 The Mystery of the Lighthouse
I have been watching The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries from the 1970s on YouTube recently. (It is also streaming on Peacock but I have the cheap version of Peacock and hate the commercials). This goes along with my renewed interest in the original Nancy Drew Mysteries books. The show was, of course, based on …
July 9, 2024
Top Ten Tuesday: My 10 most recent reads.
|| Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. || This week’s theme is: Throwback Freebie (Pick a TTT topic that has been previously done. Maybe you missed it, weren’t blogging then, or you’d like to update an old list you made.) So for this week, I chose: My Ten Most Recent Reads I’m …
July 8, 2024
Free Digital Copy of Gladwynn Grant Gets Her Footing with an annual subscription to my Substack newsletter/author site
All paid subscribers who sign up for my annual subscription on Substack will now receive a digital copy of Gladwynn Grant Gets Her Footing, the first book in my Gladwynn Grant Mysteries, for free. Use this link to get 50 percent off annual subscriptions: https://lisarhoweler.substack.com/sub... You will also receive:
July 7, 2024
Sunday Bookends: It’s hot. It’s hot. It’s way too hot. And reading.
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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July 6, 2024
Saturday Afternoon Chat: How to make summer feel like autumn for those of us who are autumn people
I am not a summer person which I think I have shared many, many times on this blog. I am an autumn person and not in skin tone or fashion sense. I like autumn. I like cozy days with a soft blanket and a warm cup of tea and the leaves on the trees a …
July 2, 2024
Mid-year Book Round Up or Freak Out or Whatever it is Called
I saw this prompt for a Mid-Year Book Round-Up (Freak Out) on Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs’ blog a few weeks ago but also saw another version online where the blogger listed more than one book for certain questions so I decided to combine the two. Best Book (s) You’ve Read In 2024 Little Women …
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July 1, 2024
Book review/recommendation: Lord Edgware Dies: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie and some thoughts about Agatha’s possible antisemitism
Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie is a wild ride full of Hollywood starlets, mistaken identities, greed, trickery, and hilarious verbal sparring between Arthur Hastings and Poirot. This is the second Poirot book I’ve read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. This is the story of the death of Lord Edgware, whose wife – American actress …
June 30, 2024
Sunday Bookends: Reading, swimming, and some rain
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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June 29, 2024
Saturday Evening Chat: A tour of rural roads, a long playdate and sleepover, pool days and water balloon fights
Today it rained all day. Life moved slow and I was okay with that. “Don’t forget to take the Marsh Road to avoid the road construction,” my husband texted me Friday morning. I did as he said, avoiding the main highway, and taking the more scenic route via a back road, on my way to …
