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Full disclaimer this week: the subject matter of this movie made it too difficult for me to watch all the way through, so I’m telling you what the movie is about, but I skimmed a lot of this movie. I’ve been watching Bette Davis movies for spring and this week the one I chose was …

Continue reading Classic Movie Impressions. Spring of Bette: Dark Victory or the movie I couldn’t finish because it hit too close to home

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A possible murderer loose on the island resort where Miss Jane Marple has gone to stay for a vacation? Then a sudden death and an inn owner who suddenly starts having memory lapses? Why that sounds like a recipe for a very good mystery and, indeed, it was. A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie isn’t …

Continue reading Book recommendation: A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Today’s prompt is: a freebie. Whatever subject we wanted. so today I chose: Ten of the most relaxing books I have ever read (in no particular order) This book was not what I expected and I truly ended up loving it. Description: When orphaned Mary Lennox comes …

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Another Man’s Poison was my second Bette Davis movie, and I watched it on a whim sometime back in January. All About Eve was my first Bette Davis movie, in case you are curious. This movie is dark from the start. We have Bette Davis as Janet Frobisher, and she’s already committed a crime that …

Continue reading Spring of Bette (Davis): Another Man’s Poison

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. I’m starting this post curled up under a blanket with a warm rice pack, while The Philadelphia …

Continue reading Sunday Bookends: Slow reading this week

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I have been watching and writing about The Thin Man movies, and up this time is Shadow of the Thin Man, which is the fourth movie in a six-movie series. You can find my impressions/reviews/recaps/whatever you want to call it here. If you have read my other posts or are familiar with these movies, then …

Continue reading Classic Movie Impressions: Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)

I’m watching Bette Davis movies this spring, but have chosen some of the less popular ones for something different. This next movie, A Working Man, came on after It’s Love I’m After and intrigued me in the first several minutes so I decided to stick with it. I ended up enjoying it more than I …

Continue reading Spring of Bette Davis: The Working Man (1933)

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. A repairman came to our house this week to fix our dishwasher – or so I thought. …

Continue reading Sunday Bookends: The aggravating repair man who didn’t want to repair things and a variety of books being read