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Leafing Through Pages – A Deadly Judgment (Murder, She Wrote # 6)

For review of all movies and TV shows by Dame Angela Lansbury, go here.For movies, TV shows and books surrounding actors and actresses who were part of Dame Angela Lansbury’s 80’s and 90’s American crime drama television series Murder, She Wrote, go here on my other blog on LiveJournal and here on WordPress. Stars: 3Continue reading “Leafing Through Pages – A Deadly Judgment (Murder, She Wrote # 6)”

Holidays & Observances: Global Running Day

For all the posts in this Holidays & Observances series, go here. Prologue: I have been meaning to write a series about Holidays and Observances that we (my family and friends) follow in both India (my birth country) and USA (my adopted country). This series is dedicated to those. On a side note, perhaps IContinue reading “Holidays & Observances: Global Running Day”

Leafing Through Pages – Naked In Death (In Death # 1)

For review of all books in the In Death series, go here. Stars: 4 / 5Recommendation: A futuristic urban fantasy mystery thriller throwing the readers into a world that they understand as well as can envision what it would be like; and at the same time keeping it grounded to the world they know soContinue reading “Leafing Through Pages – Naked In Death (In Death # 1)”

Wild Paradise: Golden Ball

For all the posts in the Wild Paradise Series, go here. I woke up to a cloudy sky but a perfect golden ball of Sun. Not a shade of cloud on the sun and not a single ray protruding from it. Urging us to embrace it and thrive in it’s warm glow. Sooraj Ki BaahonContinue reading “Wild Paradise: Golden Ball”

Holidays & Observances: Nirjala Ekadasi

For all the posts in this Holidays & Observances series, go here. For prologue on Ekadasi, go to the very first post here. Prologue: I have been meaning to write a series about Holidays and Observances that we (my family and friends) follow in both India (my birth country) and USA (my adopted country). ThisContinue reading “Holidays & Observances: Nirjala Ekadasi”

Leafing Through Pages – The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew #1)

For review of all books about Nancy Drew, go here; about Hardy Boys go here; about Tarzan go here. Stars: 3 / 5 Recommendation: A solid start for the revised series keeping it to the time and period of its printing, certainly a fun to revisit the stories that I grew up reading. Brings backContinue reading “Leafing Through Pages – The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew #1)”

Holidays & Observances: Memorial Day

Wild Paradise: Pink Peonies

For all the posts in the Wild Paradise Series, go here. I have two Pink Peonies at the entrance of my garage that I wait for them all year long to bloom. Notice that one of them is caught with a type of bee I think. 🙂

Strange Oddities and Peculiar Pretties: Decorated Bicycles

For all posts about the wonderful and weird surprising stuff I did or saw, click here. Every year in the month of May, the town of Old Wethersfield in Connecticut goes all out in welcoming spring in a unique way. All the vendors and stores on Main Street decorate old bicycles in different ways –Continue reading “Strange Oddities and Peculiar Pretties: Decorated Bicycles”

Cinema Slueth: Gambling Lady

For review of all movies starring Barbara Stanwyck, go here. Stars: 2.5 / 5 Recommendation: Disconnected plot; mismatch or miscast actors for their roles; mediocre acting by supporting cast; and a melodrama that solely survived on the chemistry between the lead cast even though it failed to hold the movie high. Movie makers definitely tookContinue reading “Cinema Slueth: Gambling Lady”