Lisa R. Howeler's Blog

“Whoa slow down the Orient Express, Sherlock. You think you’re going to investigate a possible murder?” It’s one thing for me to bat around that idea in my own private brain or to make a few innocent lists in a new notebook. For my very normal and sensible little sister to make such a suggestion … Continue reading Book Review: But First, Murder by Bee Littlefield

For the past several months, I have been writing about or recapping episodes from the 1977-1979 TV Show The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries. For the first season, the episodes would flip-flop back and forth between featuring The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, and eventually the two would join forces before they began to phase Nancy … Continue reading Recap of The Hardy Boys and The Secret of The Jade Kwan Yin (With spoilers)

Welcome to the Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot, where we offer a place for bloggers to link up and get a fresh set of eyes on their posts. We also feature one blog a week, letting our readers know about the blog and providing a link so readers can learn more about it. Please feel free … Continue reading Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot September 5

Welcome to the Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot, where we offer a place for bloggers to link up and get a fresh set of eyes on their posts. We also feature one blog a week, letting our readers know about the blog and providing a link so readers can learn more about it. Please feel free … Continue reading Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot Template

This summer I participated in the Summer Reading Challenge hosted by Emma at Words and Peace and Annabel @ AnnaBookBel.  In the beginning I decided I would read 15 and then I decided on my own that I’d just read 10. I knew I had a lot going on this summer with health and stuff (not like … Continue reading Summer Reading Challenge Wrap Up

Description: Margaret, Rose, Jane, and Fran had a good thing meet every week in the quiet of their peaceful chapel and knit prayer shawls. No muss, just ministry. That is, until their pastor boots them out of the church in his last-ditch effort to revive the dwindling congregation. Uptight Margaret isn’t having it. Knitting prayer … Continue reading Book Review: The Unlikely Yarn of the Dragon Lady by Sharon J. Mondragon

This summer I have been watching movies that Angela Lansbury starred in or co-starred. This week I watched my last movie for this particular event. Up next will be Comfy, Cozy Cinema for autumn with Erin from Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs. The list of movies we are watching is at the bottom of this … Continue reading Summer of Angela: The Celtic Riddle (A Murder, She Wrote movie)

Welcome to the A Good Book & A Cup of Tea (A Monthly Bookish Link Party) for book and reading posts or anything related to books and reading (even movies based on books!) Each link party will be open for a month. This month I have an additional co-host: Erin from Still Life, With Cracker … Continue reading A Bookish Link Party: A Good Book and a Cup of Tea September

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 wrote about what’s been going on in my Saturday Afternoon Chat yesterday if you want to … Continue reading Sunday Bookends: Cooler weather, mysteries, and Summer of Angela wrapping up

This summer has brought a lot of changes, and I am not a person who adjusts well to changes. Some of these changes I can’t write about because they aren’t my changes to talk about. One of them I can’t talk about because it hasn’t been made public in our area yet. I can say … Continue reading Saturday Afternoon Chat: I don’t like change and changes are coming