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I don’t usually recommend a movie, or much of anything, after only watching it once. But let me just say simply that this one deserves the recommendation. It’s that good. Ron Howard (director) has outdone himself with this one. I mean the story itself of the 13 boys getting trapped in the cave in Thailand in 2018 made world news. That they were even able to rescue them was miraculous. But you don’t realize just how miraculous until you know “how” they did it. Wow. Watching Thirteen Lives on Prime the other day, I was equal parts thinking that it had to be wrong –Read More →

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Must be something in the air because I ran across two posts related to cliffhangers on the same day recently. First there is this one about the Stargate SG1 writers and the uncertain future of the series in later seasons: Then later that same day I found this: I think overall I tend to avoid cliffhangers. Well, they don’t happen in romance novels very much to begin with. And with streaming nowadays, I usually wait until an entire TV series is complete. Or, at least I wait until another season is added. Problem solved. Of course the real problem is when another season (or book)Read More →

Let's get comfortable!

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And by “readers” I’m talking about people who read for pleasure. I’m asking because when I was in the hospital earlier this year there was this young nurses aide who came in while I had one of the Harry Potter movies on the TV. She said she’d never read the Harry Potter books or actually sat through any of the movies. Had only caught bits and pieces here and there. Kind of surprised me. I mean, she was young but not that young. I guess it could happen, though. On talking to her further, I realized she wasn’t that big on science fiction or fantasyRead More →

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It was nice taking some time off. Didn’t get a lot of reading done but did watch a few new movies. Plus I discovered a couple of new-to-me detective series. We were able to watch both Sonic the Hedgehog 2 & Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers together as a double feature family movie night. Let me put it this way, they are both very good. But one of them is an absolutely fantastic non-stop action adventure. The other is more “what da heck did I just watch?” meta deliciousness. And yet still very good in its own weird way. Ya only get one guess asRead More →

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The next two weeks are vacation time for the family. So, naturally we’ve been making a list of the things we want to do. Which includes new to us things to watch. The list is interesting because it’s all over the place so I thought I would share it. 2022 movies we haven’t seen Chip ‘n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Thor: Love and Thunder Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore Top Gun: Maverick (and probably the original Top Gun because it’s been so long I need a refresher) Sonic the Hedgehog 2 The Batman TV series to finally catchRead More →

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I have been fighting my allergies the last few days. I’m either stopped up and can’t breath or constantly have a tissue at my nose. Yech. As a result I haven’t done a lot of anything this week, mainly because my eyes feel blurry half the time. So, while being a couch potato the other day, I was digging around on HBOMax and realized they had The Da Vinci Code. Been so long since I’d seen it, I couldn’t remember exactly what happened in it. So I watched it. Then watched the next one, Angels and Demons. It made for a nice enjoyable evening ofRead More →

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One thing I realized when I was recovering this spring is that I desperately need new-to-me romance authors to read. I mean, comfort reads that you’ve read over and over again are great when you are really sick. But as I got better, I was looking around for something new and found out I didn’t have anything. For one thing, I don’t keep a big romance to-be-read list. When I get them, I read them. Part of that is because the older I get, the pickier I get about what I read. So anything that ends up in my hands to-be-read is already from oneRead More →

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I actually began feeling well enough to start doing a bit of blogging about a month ago. So, of course, we immediately started having a lot of problems with our internet connection. Then it died. Dead. As in we were no longer even getting a usable signal at our house except on our phones. Thus began the search for a new internet service. Which is not simple when you live in a more rural area. Basically we’ve been limping along using mobile hotspots at home for the last month plus. Luckily we have an unlimited data plan or that would’ve been a nightmare.  Honestly, though,Read More →

Let's get comfortable!

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And trying to get back to posting. Although I’m not guaranteeing anything because it’s been a rough couple of months for me health-wise. Basically, in January, I spent a week in the hospital. I’ve been out of the hospital for the last few weeks and doing some rehabilitation at home, thankfully. But it’s a slow process. So honestly I’m not sure how much I will be posting. At least for the next few weeks. I am doing a lot of reading and watching. As well as just generally making notes and clipping stuff like crazy. So it’s not like I don’t have some material toRead More →

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I wanted to let everyone know I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth. The week before Thanksgiving I was very under the weather with a flare up of a nagging problem I’ve had for awhile. By the time I was over that, or at least mostly over it, we found ourselves in the middle of an unexpected redecorating project. Which isn’t over yet and will probably take the Christmas holiday to complete. What with one thing and another I simply haven’t had the energy or time to even think about about posting anything for the last month. But I will be back afterRead More →

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Because I have so many things I want to do on the site right now but my life has been chaos lately. Seriously it’s gotten so bad that I finally had to sit down and go over the “in-progress” stuff I’m supposed to be working on for the site. Mainly because I couldn’t remember some of them and wanted to make sure I still wanted to work on them right now. Oye.  Which kind of turned into an idea for a post. I don’t like doing these “a little bit of everything” posts because I prefer to concentrate on one thing at a time butRead More →