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It’s time for our Sunday morning chat. On Sundays, I ramble about what’s been going on, whatthe rest of the familyand I have been reading and watching, andwhat I’ve been writing.
What’s Been Occurring
Things have been so crazy in my family for the last month that none of you would believe all that has happened if I told you. I am not going to share everything that happened to protect the privacy of my family but I will say that I became the main caregiver for my elderly parents very fast and suddenly and that the health of my dad began to decline super fast.
My son and I were taking care of two people who were not mobile, or barely mobile, at one point, night and day. At the same time I was working hard to hire private caregivers for my parents, another family member was in the hospital, my health was declining, and several other horrible things were happening.
Stressful things are still happening but I wanted to write a Sunday Bookends post this week to do something that feels “normal” if that makes sense.
My life has been anything normal for over a month and I am beyond beat down emotionally, mentally, physically and even spiritually.
What I/We’ve Been Reading
Recently Finished
I haven’t been able to focus on reading hardly at all but did finish my Agatha Christie read for the month — Sleeping Murder — just under the wire yesterday.
In Progress
I am slow reading Stillmeadow Daybrook by Gladys Taber. Since each chapter is a month, I plan to read a chapter a month for the rest of 2026 and into 2027. I’m also reading Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.
I’ve now started The Two Mrs. Abbotts by D.E. Stephenson as part of an online book club that is reading all four of the books in the Miss Buncle series.
Up Soon
I will also be reading The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie as my November read for the Christie Reading Challenge.
I’m not sure what else I’ll choose for November to read but I have a feeling it will be very light.
New arrivals to my bookshelf
I have obtained a ton of new mysteries but don’t feel like listing them all now so I’ll try that next week.
What I/We’ve Been Watching
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve watched a couple of movies but not a ton. I watched Laura and a couple of the Miss Marple movies with Margaret Rutherford — Murder Most Foul and Murder At the Gallop.
Mom and I also watched Murder, She Wrote, Psych, and Rosemary and Thyme.
Mom and Dad don’t watch a lot of TV so watching shows with her has been a treat for her and a way to keep her mind off things since Dad is in the hospital for the second time in less than a month.
Some Housekeeping
Erin (Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs), Cat (Cat’s Wire) and I host a monthly bookish link party called A Good Book and A Cup of Tea. This link-up is 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. You can find that link up for this month here.
Each week, I host the Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot with some great hosts. It goes live Thursday night, but you can share any kind of blog posts (family-friendly) there until Tuesday of each week. You can check my recent posts on the sidebar to the right for the most recent link party.
Now It’s Your Turn
What have you been doing, watching, reading, listening to, or writing?
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 to post new blog posts or old ones you want to bring attention to again.
Look for the post to go live about 9:30 PM EST on Thursdays.
Now, let’s introduce our current hosts for the Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot:
Marsha from Marsha in the Middle started blogging in 2021 as an exercise in increasing her neuroplasticity. Oh, who are we kidding? Marsha started blogging because she loves clothes, and she loves to talk or, in this case, write!
Melynda from Scratch Made Food! & DIY Homemade Household – The name says it all, we homestead in East Texas, with three generations sharing this land. I cook and bake from scratch, between gardening and running after the chickens, and knitting!
Lisa from Boondock Ramblingsshares about the fiction she writes and reads, her faith, homeschooling, photography and more.
Cat from Cat’s Wire is a bookworm, movie fan, crazy cat lady, armed with beads, cabs, wire and a very jumpy brain which loves to go down rabbit holes!
Rena from Fine, Whatever writes about style, midlife, and the “fine whatever” moments that make life both meaningful and fun. Since 2015, she’s been celebrating creativity, confidence, and finding joy in the everyday.
We would love to have additional Co-Hosts to share in the creativity and fun! If you think this would be a good fit for you and you like having fun (come on, who doesn’t!) while still being creative, drop one of us an email and someone will get back with you!
WTJR will be highlighting a different blogger each week this year! We invite you to stop by their blog, take a look around and say hello!
Beth Willis Miller, M.Ed., is the author of Memorable Moments in the Holy Land, The Romans Road To Salvation; 26 Devotions Focusing on Christ in the Nativity Alphabet; Twenty Encouraging Devotions with Inspiring Bible Journaling Artwork; Name Above All Names Devotional: Focusing on 26 Alphabetical Names of Christ, with Illustrator Krista Hamrick, and 31-Day Prayer Journey Leading to Easter. She is married with two adult children, and two grandsons.
Thank you so much for joining us for our link-up!
And now some posts that were highlights for me this past week:
This link party is for blog posts only. All other links will be deleted.
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We welcome unlimited, family friendly content! This can include opinion pieces, recipes, travel recaps, fashion ideas, crafts, thrifting, lifestyle, book reviews or discussions, photography, art, and so much more! Thank you for joining us!
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 to post new blog posts or old ones you want to bring attention to again.
Look for the post to go live about 9:30 PM EST on Thursdays.
I keep trying to think of happy things to write here but I don’t have any right now…things are tough here. I hope they are nice where you are. Tell me something happy in the comments if you can, to make me smile.
Now, let’s introduce our current hosts for the Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot:
Marsha from Marsha in the Middle started blogging in 2021 as an exercise in increasing her neuroplasticity. Oh, who are we kidding? Marsha started blogging because she loves clothes, and she loves to talk or, in this case, write!
Melynda from Scratch Made Food! & DIY Homemade Household – The name says it all, we homestead in East Texas, with three generations sharing this land. I cook and bake from scratch, between gardening and running after the chickens, and knitting!
Lisa from Boondock Ramblingsshares about the fiction she writes and reads, her faith, homeschooling, photography and more.
Cat from Cat’s Wire is a bookworm, movie fan, crazy cat lady, armed with beads, cabs, wire and a very jumpy brain which loves to go down rabbit holes!
Rena from Fine, Whatever writes about style, midlife, and the “fine whatever” moments that make life both meaningful and fun. Since 2015, she’s been celebrating creativity, confidence, and finding joy in the everyday.
We would love to have additional Co-Hosts to share in the creativity and fun! If you think this would be a good fit for you and you like having fun (come on, who doesn’t!) while still being creative, drop one of us an email and someone will get back with you!
WTJR will be highlighting a different blogger each week this year! We invite you to stop by their blog, take a look around and say hello!
This link party is for blog posts only. All other links will be deleted.
Please link only blog posts you created yourself.
Please link directly to the URL of your post and not the main address of your blog.
Please do not add links to videos, sales ads, or social media links such as YouTube videos or Shorts, Instagram or Facebook Reels, TikTok videos, or any other “social media” based content.
But do visit other blogs and give the gift of a comment.
Notice: By linking with Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot, you assert that content and photos are your own property. And you give us permission to share said content if your post or blog is showcased.
We welcome unlimited, family friendly content! This can include opinion pieces, recipes, travel recaps, fashion ideas, crafts, thrifting, lifestyle, book reviews or discussions, photography, art, and so much more! Thank you for joining us!
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 to post new blog posts or old ones you want to bring attention to again.
Look for the post to go live about 9:30 PM EST on Thursdays.
Things are still crazy and pretty awful with my parents and their health, especially my dads. My son and I have become their full time caregivers and are so tired. Please pray.
Now, let’s introduce our current hosts for the Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot:
Marsha from Marsha in the Middle started blogging in 2021 as an exercise in increasing her neuroplasticity. Oh, who are we kidding? Marsha started blogging because she loves clothes, and she loves to talk or, in this case, write!
Melynda from Scratch Made Food! & DIY Homemade Household – The name says it all, we homestead in East Texas, with three generations sharing this land. I cook and bake from scratch, between gardening and running after the chickens, and knitting!
Lisa from Boondock Ramblingsshares about the fiction she writes and reads, her faith, homeschooling, photography and more.
Cat from Cat’s Wire is a bookworm, movie fan, crazy cat lady, armed with beads, cabs, wire and a very jumpy brain which loves to go down rabbit holes!
Rena from Fine, Whatever writes about style, midlife, and the “fine whatever” moments that make life both meaningful and fun. Since 2015, she’s been celebrating creativity, confidence, and finding joy in the everyday.
We would love to have additional Co-Hosts to share in the creativity and fun! If you think this would be a good fit for you and you like having fun (come on, who doesn’t!) while still being creative, drop one of us an email and someone will get back with you!
WTJR will be highlighting a different blogger each week this year! We invite you to stop by their blog, take a look around and say hello!
Welcome to my little corner of the universe! My name is Shelbee and I am an over 40 stay-at-home mother of two boys named Archie and Ralphie, two cats named Dave and Frankie, and a bunny named George. I also was an Army wife until my husband retired after 22 years of service in 2021. We were stationed at Fort Drum and are remaining in the surrounding Watertown area in the northern reaches of New York State where the summers are short and the winters are long, cold, and very snowy. I decided to start blogging during my husband’s deployment to Afghanistan in 2015 as a means to reclaim some of the sanity I have lost trying to raise these boys in the midst of an extraordinary military lifestyle in this curious climate of the North Country!
Thank you so much for joining us for our link-up!
I’ll be back with some features next week.
Important things to know about the link-up:
This link party is for blog posts only. All other links will be deleted.
Please link only blog posts you created yourself.
Please link directly to the URL of your post and not the main address of your blog.
Please do not add links to videos, sales ads, or social media links such as YouTube videos or Shorts, Instagram or Facebook Reels, TikTok videos, or any other “social media” based content.
But do visit other blogs and give the gift of a comment.
Notice: By linking with Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot, you assert that content and photos are your own property. And you give us permission to share said content if your post or blog is showcased.
We welcome unlimited, family friendly content! This can include opinion pieces, recipes, travel recaps, fashion ideas, crafts, thrifting, lifestyle, book reviews or discussions, photography, art, and so much more! Thank you for joining us!
It’s time for our Sunday morning chat. On Sundays, I ramble about what’s been going on, whatthe rest of the familyand I have been reading and watching, andwhat I’ve been writing.
What’s Been Occurring
I usually try to be upbeat on my blog, but the past few weeks, especially the last week, have not been easy at all and I’m emotionally and physically beat down.
My dad has been in the hospital for a week and with him being my mom’s main caretaker, my son and I have had to take over those duties, especially at night.
Mom is fine mentally (thank God) but physically she can not transport herself to the bathroom so we push her in a wheelchair. That includes twice a night in the middle of the night and while we have a pretty good system, it is very tiring.
It has thrown off everything for our entire family and add to that trying to line up caregivers (after the last one bailed/lied etc.) in a very rural area where there are very few options has been exhausting. Added to all of it is that my brother has also been in the hospital with major pain and health issues, I have a chronic pain condition and my left knee is flared up, and our car just died. So I am not doing well some days, but I am still trying to find some normalcy by writing and reading blog posts when I find time.
My son and I have been switching off nights to hang out with my mom, which is the fun part. The less fun part is getting up at night and just not being in our own beds and environment and also having my mom cry and tell us she’s sorry we have to do all this.
One thing that being away from your home does is make you really appreciate the little things about being at home — the slower wake up, feeling like you don’t have to be on all the time, the pets, the quiet mornings where you can just think, and late night reading.
Hopefully we can all get back to that soon but it doesn’t look like it will be that way again for the rest of the year.
What’s nice about staying with my mom is waking up to this view:
What I/We’ve Been Reading
Recently Finished
I had a hard time finding time to read or concentrating when I did find time but I did finally take some time for me to finish And The Plot Thickened by P.G. Wodehouse.
That one was a very fun escape. I have no idea if this book exists anywhere but on used sites, since it was given to me by my friend Erin and she picked it up at a used book sale. I looked to see if the book was on Kindle so I could read it when I shut my bedroom lights off, but I couldn’t find it anywhere.
I’m glad I had an old library edition then!
In Progress
I am slow reading Stillmeadow Daybrook by Gladys Taber. Since each chapter is a month, I plan to read a chapter a month for the rest of 2026 and into 2027. I’m also reading Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.
I am now reading The Pink Motel by Carol Ryrie Brink (a middle grade book) and Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie.
Up Soon
I’ll be reading The Two Mrs. Abott’s by D.E. Stevenson soon. Also coming up is Storm in the Village by Miss Read and Cloud of Witness by Dorothy Sayers
What The Family is Reading
Little Miss and I are reading Rascal for school.
New arrivals to my bookshelf
This past week I added Murder with Mirrors, Five Little Pigs, and The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie, The Best of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton and The New Bedside, Bathtub and Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie.
What I/We’ve Been Watching
With Dad in the hospital I stayed with my mom and we watched some old shows like Bob Newhart and Two’s Company (which she announced was stupid), Psych, and Murder, She Wrote.
During one of my breaks at home I watched How To Kill Your Wife with Jack Lemmon, One Body Too Many, and Straight Talk with Dolly Parton and James Woods.
Erin (Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs), Cat (Cat’s Wire) and I host a monthly bookish link party called A Good Book and A Cup of Tea. This link-up is 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. You can find that link up for this month here.
Each week, I host the Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot with some great hosts. It goes live Thursday night, but you can share any kind of blog posts (family-friendly) there until Tuesday of each week. You can check my recent posts on the sidebar to the right for the most recent link party.
Now It’s Your Turn
What have you been doing, watching, reading, listening to, or writing?
I used to think I was not a Jack Lemmon fan but the more movies I see him in, the more I like him. I really liked him in The Apartment from 1960, which I watched in July.
He starred in this one with Shirley MacClaine, Fred MacMurray, and Jack Krushan.
The movie is about C.C. Baxter (Lemmon) who rents his apartment out to the various bosses in the very large company he works for so those bosses can meet up with their mistresses.
This arrangement is sometimes an inconvenience, but helps Baxter get perks and promotions so he continues to do it until a wrench is thrown in the system when he finds out the president of the company (MacMurray) wants to use his apartment to meet up with the girl from work that he has a crush on (Fran Kubelick, Shirley’s character).
I wasn’t sure what to expect from this movie since I didn’t do any research going in. Was it a comedy? A drama? A parody?
Turns out it was a dramatic/romantic comedy directed by Billy Wilder, written by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, and in 1961 it won five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Story and Screenplay, Best Art Direction Black and White (Alexandre Trauner and Edward G. Boyle), Best Cinematography (Joseph LaShelle), and best film editing (Daniel Mandell).
Lemmon was also nominated for best actor, MacLaine for best actress, and Jack Krushan for best supporting actor.
This was a thought-provoking, sad, funny, dark-yet-light, movie that I would recommend watching at least once in your life.
If you are sensitive to the topic of suicide, please be aware it does come up in this movie.
The theme for The Apartment was written by Ferrante and Teicher and rose to number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1960.
“With this film, [Wilder] managed to make a commercially successful entertainment that, for all its laughter and romance, took a serious stab at the prevailing attitudes and way of life of a country in which getting ahead in business had become the greatest measure of personal success,” Rob Nixon wrote for TCM.com.
The film was released in mid-June and by the end of the year had doubled it’s cost to be made, which was $3 million.
“I always felt that Billy Wilder grew a rose in a garbage pail with this one,” Jack Lemmon, later stated. “He was throwing cold water right in our faces about the terrible false premises with which most of our society lives. He challenged our priorities and the way we rationalize our behavior on the grounds of getting ahead in America – at a time when it wasn’t fashionable to challenge these things. He gave us a pretty good jolt, and it hasn’t been done a hell of a lot better since then.”
Some interesting trivia:
This was the last black-and-white film to win Best Picture until Schindler’s List (1993), a project Wilder was once considered to direct.
In 1994, The Apartment was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
Shirley MacLaine, drove Wilder nuts because she kept ad-libbing. He forced her to do one of the elevator scenes five times because she kept missing one word.
Wilder and cinematographer Joseph LaShelle sometimes argued about the look of the film. LaShelle wanted to use more close-ups, but Wilder didn’t like close ups. “In film making, I like the normal set-up, like Wyler uses, like John Ford, like Chaplin,” Wilder once said. “I’m against this fancy stuff. It reminds an audience that artisans have intruded. I don’t want them to grab their partner and say, ‘My God, look at that!’”
I own this one on Blu-Ray but you can find it streaming on most streaming services.
Up next in my Autumn of Jack feature is My Fellow Americans.
If you are interested in more reviews or blog posts about old movies, you can find a link to my past reviews at the top of the page and you can also visit The Classic Movie Blog Association.
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 to post new blog posts or old ones you want to bring attention to again.
Look for the post to go live about 9:30 PM EST on Thursdays.
Our family is having a crazy month already, spilling over from September. Our routine is off and our brains are racing but we have been enjoying some beautiful views as the leaves change color in our neck of the woods (do you use that saying where you are from? And where does this saying even come from? According to grammarphobia.com: “Several hundred years ago, early American settlers used the word “neck” to describe a narrow stretch of wood, pasture, meadows, and so on.
Our expression “neck of the woods,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a surviving remnant of that old usage.
The use of “neck” to describe a narrow piece of land was of course an extension of the anatomical term “neck”—that narrow stretch located between the head and the shoulders.
The original word dates back to the 800s (it was first recorded in Old English as hneccan), and comes from old Germanic sources.”
There you go. A bit of fairly useless trivia for you!
Now, let’s introduce our current hosts for the Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot:
Marsha from Marsha in the Middle started blogging in 2021 as an exercise in increasing her neuroplasticity. Oh, who are we kidding? Marsha started blogging because she loves clothes, and she loves to talk or, in this case, write!
Melynda from Scratch Made Food! & DIY Homemade Household – The name says it all, we homestead in East Texas, with three generations sharing this land. I cook and bake from scratch, between gardening and running after the chickens, and knitting!
Lisa from Boondock Ramblingsshares about the fiction she writes and reads, her faith, homeschooling, photography and more.
Cat from Cat’s Wire is a bookworm, movie fan, crazy cat lady, armed with beads, cabs, wire and a very jumpy brain which loves to go down rabbit holes!
Rena from Fine, Whatever writes about style, midlife, and the “fine whatever” moments that make life both meaningful and fun. Since 2015, she’s been celebrating creativity, confidence, and finding joy in the everyday.
We would love to have additional Co-Hosts to share in the creativity and fun! If you think this would be a good fit for you and you like having fun (come on, who doesn’t!) while still being creative, drop one of us an email and someone will get back with you!
WTJR will be highlighting a different blogger each week this year! We invite you to stop by their blog, take a look around and say hello!
I’m Melissa, and this is my cozy corner of the internet, where I share from scratch recipes (ok, mostly from scratch), old-fashioned kitchen wisdom, and simple homemaking ideas inspired by the rhythms of the seasons. I have a love for hearty, old-fashioned meals, freshly baked bread, and a good canning recipe. I also love to share my gardening tips, craft ideas, and hints for simple living. I write about creating a home you love in the only tried and true way I know — one simple recipe or project at a time
Thank you so much for joining us for our link-up!
And now some posts that were highlights for me this past week:
This link party is for blog posts only. All other links will be deleted.
Please link only blog posts you created yourself.
Please link directly to the URL of your post and not the main address of your blog.
Please do not add links to videos, sales ads, or social media links such as YouTube videos or Shorts, Instagram or Facebook Reels, TikTok videos, or any other “social media” based content.
But do visit other blogs and give the gift of a comment.
Notice: By linking with Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot, you assert that content and photos are your own property. And you give us permission to share said content if your post or blog is showcased.
We welcome unlimited, family friendly content! This can include opinion pieces, recipes, travel recaps, fashion ideas, crafts, thrifting, lifestyle, book reviews or discussions, photography, art, and so much more! Thank you for joining us!
My friend Cat shares what she reads each month in a very informative post and I want to be more like Cat so I am going to see if I can keep up with this. My posts will be short because I usually only read about four books a month.
I read six in September, however.
I read a lot of mysteries and I won’t be reading as many mysteries in October (I don’t think).
Murder, She Wrote: A Slaying in Savannah by Donald Bain
Description:
Jessica is saddened when her eccentric old friend Tillie Mortelaine passes away—and surprised to learn that Tillie has left her a million dollars. But there are strings attached. Jessica must use the money to help the literacy fund she and Tillie established years ago in Savannah, Georgia. And she will receive the money only if she can solve a mystery within the month: the murder of Tillie’s fiancé, Wanamaker Jones.
Thoughts: I had more thoughts here, but overall, I really liked this one. Like with any series there can be duds and good ones in this series, but this one was fairly good.
Just Shy of Harmony by Philip Gulley
Description: Sam Gardner’s second year as minister in quaint and charming Harmony, Indiana, is fraught with trials and incidents, a crisis of faith, a marital catastrophe, and a church elder’s ill-hatched scheme to scramble scripture with eggs. But a loving heart and a strong sense of humor is almost certain to see Sam through . . . even if all of Harmony is expecting a miracle comeEaster morn.
Thoughts: I did not enjoy this book. It was not well written to me. Terribly repetitive and convenient occurrences and like it was written by a different author than the first book. I don’t plan to read more in this series.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark Twain
Description: The exploits of Tom Sawyer, a consummate prankster with a quick wit, captivate children of all ages. Yet through the novel’s humorous escapades, from the episodes of the whitewashed fence and the ordeal in the cave to the trial of Injun Joe, Mark Twain explores deeper themes within the adult world Tom will one day join. These include the baser human instincts of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge, starvation and slavery.
Thoughts: I first read this when I was 11 or 12 and I enjoyed it just as much this time around. I had forgotten a lot of it and looked forward each night to curling up under the covers and reading a chapter or two. What a fun adventure. I will say, of course, I did not like the “n-word” being used to describe the slave Jim but I know why Twain used the words he did and it was a term, sadly, used at the time when describing black/African American people. I don’t agree with it at all but it was used maybe once in this book. It is said a lot more in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and there are actual reasons it is used but I won’t go into that now.
The Crime At Black Dudley/The Black Dudley Murder by Margery Allingham
Description/note: This book is called The Crime At Black Dudley in the UK and The Black Dudley Murder in the U.S.
Murder turns a weekend house part at Black Dudley Manor into a deadly affair when the host is discovered brutally slain. Detective Albert Campion is there to sift through the motives and clues with his signature charm.
Thoughts: I enjoyed this one even though one Allingham reader warned me away because Campion isn’t in this first book in the Campion series as much as others but I still enjoyed it and I enjoyed how Allingham introduced him with him being almost like a secondary character in the boo
Murder, She Wrote: The Maine Mutiny by Donald Bain (listened to)
Description:
Jessica Fletcher is pitching in to help Cabot Cove’s first Lobster Festival by writing an article about the lifestyle of the local lobstermen. But instead of getting the story, she becomes tangled in a net of intrigue and murder. And she better sink her claws into this puzzling case-or she may find herself becoming the next catch of the day.
Thoughts: This one took me a while to get through only because I listened to it when I was driving places and didn’t drive as many places for a bit. I did enjoy it and loved the narrator and her “Maine” accent.
Endless Night by Agatha Christie
Description: Gipsy’s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea – and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after. Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over the land. For this was the place where accidents happened. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals’ warnings: ‘There’s no luck for them as meddles with Gipsy’s Acre.’ Michael Rogers is a man who is about to learn the true meaning of the old saying ‘In my end is my beginning.’
Thoughts: I wrote a review for this one that you can find here, but the bottom line is that I liked this book but not at first. I was actually bored in the beginning, but as often happens in a Christie book, needing to find out how the killer did it was worth the push through to the end.
