Bev's Books

I ran across this and literally laughed out loud. Yeah, it works. Well, except for the Space Hobbit… that’s just a weird comparison. 🤷‍♀️ But the Dwarf to Space Scotsman did get an extra chuckle.Read More →

The most well know and recognized comic book in the history of comics was first published on April 18, 1938 (cover dated June 1938). Inside its pages the world was introduced to Superman, his alter ego Clark Kent as well as Lois Lane. They actually go on a date. It doesn’t go well. At all. Now, when I decided to do a post about the first appearance of Superman I suddenly realized I had never actually read Action Comics #1. I mean, I basically knew what happens in the Superman story in it. Because everyone who is even remotely a Superman fan talks about it.Read More →

Consider this an addendum to Ten Nights of Love: Grace Livingston Hill. Working my way through checking and reformatting the Ten Nights of Love post series has been an interesting experience. One thing I’ve tried to double-check in each author post is that there is a link to an author site if possible. Or something that can stand in for one. Which is the case for Grace Livingston Hill because she passed away long before the Internet. There is, however, a fan-site for her books that is fantastic. This labor of love is an absolute treasure trove of information. There is stuff not only aboutRead More →

Awhile back I was looking up information on Agatha Christie, I think. Honestly not sure which author I was looking up. Anyway, I ran across this post and immediately saved it because, wow, that’s a lot of information in a small package. Basically, it’s a quick list of older biographies of well-known mystery writers. So, I thought I’d share. Happy hunting.Read More →

Yes, I have watched and loved the new Netflix Avatar: The Last Airbender live action series. Seriously, I think they did a phenomenal job for an eight episode season. Life, however, has been so chaotic recently that I haven’t had time to decide how I’m going to comment on it. Or do much posting at all. I’m getting there, though, and mostly because of Notion. Can I just say that I’m starting to love that app. Software. Whatever you call it nowadays. In the meantime, here’s this collection of Iroh and Zuko scenes from the original cartoon. You know a series is something special whenRead More →

For the last week or so I’ve been rereading one of my all-time favorite romance series – Shelly Laurenston’s Pride shifter series. I’m currently on the last and my favorite Bite Me with Vic and Livy. Yum.  One of the reasons I like her writing and that series in particular is that it makes me laugh. Which for me is comfort food. And after the month I’ve had with one illness after another that’s the antidote I needed. Other readers may want to cry. I want to laugh my head off. Now I will admit that her characters and her humor aren’t going to be for everyone.Read More →

I’ve been wanting to rewatch this one for a while and when I found out Fringe was on Prime through IMDB (who knew they had their own channel?) I started an immediate binge. Seriously I watched or read very little of anything else while binging on it except for the occasional palate cleanser cozy mystery episode here and there.  I’m kind of blown away, too. I mean I remember liking it a lot when I first watched it but it seems even better than I remember. It’s only 5 seasons, or 4 1/2 since the last is only a half season, but it packs a lotRead More →

In our spare time lately, my daughter and I have been tag-teaming each other replaying this game. Well I think I’m replaying it and she may be playing most of it for the first time. One of us will play and the other will navigate using the walk-through and then we’ll switch up playing and navigating. The strange thing is I don’t remember liking this game all that much when I played it the first time. But I’m really enjoying it this time. Weird. Or maybe it’s just the company.  🙂Read More →

My father passed away late last night. Not the best Father’s Day news but in one sense I’m glad it didn’t happen today and that he’s finally at peace. And it did happen peacefully with my mother, sister, myself and Kent (my ex who’s been like a son to my parents) at his side at the nursing facility. Daddy had been moved there on Friday after yet another quick trip to the hospital where it was decided by all that it was time to place him on palliative care, i.e. essentially no longer trying to save him but simply making him comfortable, because the doctors feltRead More →

Otherwise known as getting in the mood for Halloween.  I was re-watching the old TV series Jonathan Creek after finding it on Amazon Prime and got curious about the theme music. I figured it was written for the series but nope. Apparently the theme of that show is part of a fairly famous piece of music written by Camille Saint-Saëns with very strong roots in Halloween. More on that in moment. Also, once you get something like that in your head it’s hard to get it out so I thought everyone else should also have it firmly in their head for Halloween too. So enjoy.  WhatRead More →