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Books. Mostly books.
Autistic elder.
Autistic elder.
Death on the Prowl is a satisfying end to the Campbell and Carter series that takes place in the same universe as her Mitchell and Markby series.
Ann Granger died last month.
#AnnGranger #CozyMysteries
Ann Granger died last month.
#AnnGranger #CozyMysteries
November 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Death on the Prowl is a satisfying end to the Campbell and Carter series that takes place in the same universe as her Mitchell and Markby series.
Ann Granger died last month.
#AnnGranger #CozyMysteries
Ann Granger died last month.
#AnnGranger #CozyMysteries
My lease says No Animals, but sometimes this cutie comes to visit me. I'm calling them Jackie until I find out the gender. Then they will be Frodo or Velma. #Cats
November 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
My lease says No Animals, but sometimes this cutie comes to visit me. I'm calling them Jackie until I find out the gender. Then they will be Frodo or Velma. #Cats
Be you, we will rebuild, just keep swimming, dream. The ladybugs have differing opinions on their backsides: bugged but blissful and bug the baddies. Inspired by artist F. Sehnaz Bac.
October 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Be you, we will rebuild, just keep swimming, dream. The ladybugs have differing opinions on their backsides: bugged but blissful and bug the baddies. Inspired by artist F. Sehnaz Bac.
My latest rockettes. Including the rock bottoms, they say: your voice matters, free speech, self care and persist.
October 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
My latest rockettes. Including the rock bottoms, they say: your voice matters, free speech, self care and persist.
Persistence with humor is what I take from Helen Lederer's memoir, Not that I'm Bitter. As a 70-something comedian/writer, she has survived a lot.
#HelenLederer #Memoirs #Humor #Comedians
#HelenLederer #Memoirs #Humor #Comedians
October 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Persistence with humor is what I take from Helen Lederer's memoir, Not that I'm Bitter. As a 70-something comedian/writer, she has survived a lot.
#HelenLederer #Memoirs #Humor #Comedians
#HelenLederer #Memoirs #Humor #Comedians
Emma Kennedy's novel The Never Ending Summer brought back so many memories of my twenties: first jobs, first loves and trying to learn survival skills, all while keeping a sense of humor.
September 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Emma Kennedy's novel The Never Ending Summer brought back so many memories of my twenties: first jobs, first loves and trying to learn survival skills, all while keeping a sense of humor.
Please don't say "Let's do coffee" to an autistic person unless you really mean it. If you knew how we immediately start making plans, you would feel stalked.
September 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Please don't say "Let's do coffee" to an autistic person unless you really mean it. If you knew how we immediately start making plans, you would feel stalked.
You reminded me of a macrame butterfly I made in the 1970's. 3 feet across. Fun hippie times!
September 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
You reminded me of a macrame butterfly I made in the 1970's. 3 feet across. Fun hippie times!
The Wedding People by Alison Espach. A newly divorced and devastated English professor reserves a night in an upscale hotel in order to end her life. When she mentions her plans to the bride, the self-centered woman forbids her to do it because it will ruin her wedding. Witty and thoughtful. #Novels
August 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The Wedding People by Alison Espach. A newly divorced and devastated English professor reserves a night in an upscale hotel in order to end her life. When she mentions her plans to the bride, the self-centered woman forbids her to do it because it will ruin her wedding. Witty and thoughtful. #Novels
The Maid, a mystery by Nita Prose. Suspenseful story of a hotel maid who seems to be autistic. When she finds a corpse in a hotel bed, her helpful efforts get her arrested. The author, a former special needs teacher, writes with skill, sympathy and humor.
#Autism #CozyMystery #NitaProse
#Autism #CozyMystery #NitaProse
July 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The Maid, a mystery by Nita Prose. Suspenseful story of a hotel maid who seems to be autistic. When she finds a corpse in a hotel bed, her helpful efforts get her arrested. The author, a former special needs teacher, writes with skill, sympathy and humor.
#Autism #CozyMystery #NitaProse
#Autism #CozyMystery #NitaProse
Muriel Spark and Barbara Pym wrote novels set in mid-century London. When I tried to imagine their characters living in the same universe, I decided Pym's characters in The Sweet Dove Died were cynical enough to be in Spark's The Bachelors. #MurielSpark #BarbaraPym #Books
June 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Muriel Spark and Barbara Pym wrote novels set in mid-century London. When I tried to imagine their characters living in the same universe, I decided Pym's characters in The Sweet Dove Died were cynical enough to be in Spark's The Bachelors. #MurielSpark #BarbaraPym #Books
Rereading Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time and Miss Pym Disposes. Reading the authorized biography of Richard Briers, More than Just a Good Life, by James Hogg. Good stuff. #Mysteries #Biography #JosephineTey
June 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Rereading Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time and Miss Pym Disposes. Reading the authorized biography of Richard Briers, More than Just a Good Life, by James Hogg. Good stuff. #Mysteries #Biography #JosephineTey
I finished this crossword puzzle book today. As the AMPLE birds are not CLAMOROUS, I will METE OUT the words that AVAIL themselves to me. Maybe you will RUE this day that I am no longer TERSE.
#Crosswords
#Crosswords
May 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I finished this crossword puzzle book today. As the AMPLE birds are not CLAMOROUS, I will METE OUT the words that AVAIL themselves to me. Maybe you will RUE this day that I am no longer TERSE.
#Crosswords
#Crosswords
When I watch a PBS travel show, I put a sticker for that place in my armchair traveler journal. I don't know if I should label this #AutisticElder or #LoveBeingAGeek #Geography #Travel
May 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
When I watch a PBS travel show, I put a sticker for that place in my armchair traveler journal. I don't know if I should label this #AutisticElder or #LoveBeingAGeek #Geography #Travel
Death of a Wandering Wolf, by Julia Buckley. Book 2 in the Hungarian Tea House series. A fun listen with Hungarian and Swedish culture info. Best to read the series in order.
#CozyMystery #CosyMystery #JuliaBuckley #Mysteries
#CozyMystery #CosyMystery #JuliaBuckley #Mysteries
May 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Death of a Wandering Wolf, by Julia Buckley. Book 2 in the Hungarian Tea House series. A fun listen with Hungarian and Swedish culture info. Best to read the series in order.
#CozyMystery #CosyMystery #JuliaBuckley #Mysteries
#CozyMystery #CosyMystery #JuliaBuckley #Mysteries
Harvey Girl arrives at the dollhouse.
April 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Harvey Girl arrives at the dollhouse.
The movie Harvey was based on this play by Mary Chase. In this recording, the script reader surprisingly imitates Jimmy Stewart's voice when he reads Elwood's part. The play's message of fanciful kindness still attracts theater goers.
April 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The movie Harvey was based on this play by Mary Chase. In this recording, the script reader surprisingly imitates Jimmy Stewart's voice when he reads Elwood's part. The play's message of fanciful kindness still attracts theater goers.
Mr. And Mrs. North Meet Murder by Frances and Richard Lockridge (1940). I enjoyed this mystery in the Greenwich Village cocktail set. The occasional racism, sexism and ableism was jarring, but the cultural snapshot was interesting. For fans of The Thin Man. #Mysteries #CozyMysteries #Lockridge
April 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Mr. And Mrs. North Meet Murder by Frances and Richard Lockridge (1940). I enjoyed this mystery in the Greenwich Village cocktail set. The occasional racism, sexism and ableism was jarring, but the cultural snapshot was interesting. For fans of The Thin Man. #Mysteries #CozyMysteries #Lockridge
The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp by Leonie Swann is a fun cozy mystery about retired and variously disabled friends trying to solve murders in their English village. #Mysteries #CozyMysteries #LeonieSwann
March 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp by Leonie Swann is a fun cozy mystery about retired and variously disabled friends trying to solve murders in their English village. #Mysteries #CozyMysteries #LeonieSwann
In Carola Dunn's Fall of a Philanderer, Daisy Dalrymple vacations on the south coast of England in 1924. When an unpopular man's body is found at the bottom of a cliff, she investigates. A cozy mystery with fun characters and historical details. #Mysteries #CozyMysteries #CarolaDunn
February 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
In Carola Dunn's Fall of a Philanderer, Daisy Dalrymple vacations on the south coast of England in 1924. When an unpopular man's body is found at the bottom of a cliff, she investigates. A cozy mystery with fun characters and historical details. #Mysteries #CozyMysteries #CarolaDunn
Nine Lives, a novel by Peter Swanson. Inspired by And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie. Truly suspenseful. #Mysteries #Suspense #PeterSwanson
February 4, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Nine Lives, a novel by Peter Swanson. Inspired by And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie. Truly suspenseful. #Mysteries #Suspense #PeterSwanson
After I started The Last Word by Elly Griffiths, I decided to read her 4 Harbinder Kaur mysteries in order. The Stranger Diaries, The PostScript Murders, Bleeding Heart Yard. I love her characters, plotting and humor. #EllyGriffiths #Mysteries #CozyMysteries
January 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
After I started The Last Word by Elly Griffiths, I decided to read her 4 Harbinder Kaur mysteries in order. The Stranger Diaries, The PostScript Murders, Bleeding Heart Yard. I love her characters, plotting and humor. #EllyGriffiths #Mysteries #CozyMysteries
Mary Engelbreit's Mary's Mottos 2025 Calendar. Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. Benjamin Franklin. #Engelbreit #Quotes #Justice
January 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Mary Engelbreit's Mary's Mottos 2025 Calendar. Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. Benjamin Franklin. #Engelbreit #Quotes #Justice
In Tread Softly by JJ Marsh, Beatrice Stubbs interrupts her sabbatical from detective work to investigate the vineyard mafia in Spain. Good sense of place. More of a thriller than a cozy mystery. Third in the series.
#Mysteties #JJMarsh #BeatriceStubbs
#Mysteties #JJMarsh #BeatriceStubbs
January 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
In Tread Softly by JJ Marsh, Beatrice Stubbs interrupts her sabbatical from detective work to investigate the vineyard mafia in Spain. Good sense of place. More of a thriller than a cozy mystery. Third in the series.
#Mysteties #JJMarsh #BeatriceStubbs
#Mysteties #JJMarsh #BeatriceStubbs
Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters, a fictionalized bio by Jennifer Chiaverini. It left me with an understanding of Mary Lincoln and the effects of her emotional disorders. She probably had bipolar disorder complicated by traumatic life events.
#Biography #MaryToddLincoln #HistoricalFiction #Audiobooks
#Biography #MaryToddLincoln #HistoricalFiction #Audiobooks
January 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters, a fictionalized bio by Jennifer Chiaverini. It left me with an understanding of Mary Lincoln and the effects of her emotional disorders. She probably had bipolar disorder complicated by traumatic life events.
#Biography #MaryToddLincoln #HistoricalFiction #Audiobooks
#Biography #MaryToddLincoln #HistoricalFiction #Audiobooks