Katy’s Weblog
Every time I want to blog, something comes up – fold the laundry, answer that email, water the plants.
Blogging is one of those things, like exercising, that is a good thing to do and you would actually enjoy it once you start, but you find an excuse to procrastinate. Next thing you know, the day is gone and “there’s always tomorrow.”
I appear to people my age that I am tech savvy. I have a blog :) I actually don’t know much.
I credit my son and husband for helping me overcome my fear of technology. They help me with everything.
I only know enough to get by and do what I want to do. And that’s enough for me.
There were many good reviews of this book, so I was really looking forward to reading it.
The plot itself did not disappoint. However, I found the heroine, a precocious 11-year old written by her in first person, rather annoying. I know the pranks she played on her sisters are suppose to add human interest to the story, but to me, she was rather mean and vengeful. It was hard to put up with her throughout the first half of the book.
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Mary Roberts Rinehart is often called the American Agatha Christie. But if The After House is typical of her books, then I am not impressed. NOT Agatha Christie.
I do like Rinehart’s writing style, but the resolution to the mystery was not satisfying. She was a prolific writer, so if the library has anymore of her books, I’ll read another, just to make sure I’m not missing anything.
You know that feeling of coming home after a fun vacation, a let-down of being back to the usual, the mundane, back to the mess you made before you took off for vacation? I’m feeling it now, after a fun 5 days in Seattle.
Here are my reflections about that: It made me realize that…
Too bad my favorite authors are dead. Dorothy Sayers’ books has humor, mystery, character development, and the style that I like.
Strong Poison was fun to read though the ending was not completely satisfying. There were too many coincidences in favor of the good guys. Nevertheless, Sayers is one of my favorite mystery authors.
For the past 1 1/2 years I’ve been pondering how to help parents at my church be the faith leaders in their own home. I know most of them want to, but they don’t know how. Like me, many are first generation Christians, so they did not grow up with parents who modeled that for them.
I love the ideas on this site.
I especially like this.
Aimee Herring
Glow-in-the-Dark Stars as Nightlights
Create a well-lit path he can follow from his room to the bathroom. Line up stars near the baseboard and make sure they get plenty of light during the day. You’ll get fewer bumps (or cries for Mom) in the night.
As my husband and I were walking out of the library, our favorite place to hang out, I saw this book in the featured section.
Everyone loves Sherlock Holmes, however I did not like this book.
The idea that the descendants of someone who took Moriaty’s identity and the descendants of another villain find each…
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Just to keep track of what I’m reading, this is a Peter Wimsey mystery that was entertaining, well-written, and had a satisfying ending.
It looks like Jill Paton Walsh has taken Sayer’s Peter Wimsey to continue his detective adventures. I have not read Walsh, so maybe I’ll give her a try next time I’m in the mood for some mindless reading.
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