Sunday Snippets 10.19.25

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This week in Sunday Snippets 10.19.25…

The curtains are now up on two windows in the guest room, thanks to Rhonda, who came over after a doctor’s visit. And she did an excellent job! I’ll be showing you that room later this week.

I don’t want to put the curtains on the north-facing window yet, because that’s where the two cat trees are. I’ll wait for Simon and Daisy to get a little older, possibly out of the mischievous kitten stage.

The girls and I went to lunch yesterday. Kendra’s kids, Riley and Marley, also went with us to eat Mexican food.

Kasi said Andrew and Ross (her husband) were out camping with an organized group this past week. An older man they knew choked to death while eating steak.

Apparently, Andrew saw him die, which had to have been awfully traumatic. The group tried to save him, but he was gone before the paramedics arrived.

A Movie I Watched:

The Woman in Cabin 10

A travel writer stumbles upon a gruesome secret while traveling aboard a luxury cruise ship.

The Woman in Cabin 10 is a thriller about a journalist named Laura “Lo” Blacklock (Keira Knightley). She believes she witnessed a woman being thrown overboard from a neighboring cabin on a luxury cruise.

When everyone is accounted for, Lo investigates on her own. She suspects the ship’s wealthy owner, Richard Bullmer, and his wife, Anne. The investigation becomes dangerous as she uncovers a web of secrets on the yacht.

The story, which serves as the basis for the new Netflix movie, focuses on Lo’s fight to be believed and to uncover the truth.

I watched this movie on Netflix. Ruth Ware wrote the book it was based on.

Series I Just Watched:

Dept. Q

The “Dept Q” plot refers to the Netflix series about a new cold-case unit in Edinburgh led by Detective Chief Inspector Carl Morck, which is based on the Jussi Adler-Olsen novel series.

The first season’s central plot follows Morck and his team as they investigate the 2017 disappearance of prosecutor Merritt Lingard. It also explores Morck’s personal trauma from a past shooting and the developing relationships within the unlikely “Department Q” team.  

I watched Dept. Q on Netflix. There will be a second season.

What I’m Currently Watching:

The Devil’s Hour

The plot of The Devil’s Hour centers on social worker Lucy Chambers, who mysteriously wakes up every night at 3:33 AM and whose emotionless son, Isaac, is connected to a series of brutal murders.

The series reveals that the serial killer, Gideon, is a time-traveler who relives his life from birth after each death. He retains his memories to try to prevent tragedies, which is what led him to abduct Isaac.

Lucy’s family is also connected to Gideon’s time loops, and her connection to the killer, as well as Isaac’s strange abilities, are tied to her past and their interwoven destinies.  

What I’m Reading:

By 1960s standards, Margaret Ryan is living the American woman’s dream. She has a husband, three children, a station wagon, and a home in Concordia. It is in one of Northern Virginia’s most exclusive and picturesque suburbs.

She has a standing invitation to the neighborhood coffee klatch, and now, thanks to her husband, a new subscription to A Woman’s Place. It is a magazine that tells housewives like Margaret exactly who to be and what to buy. On paper, she has it all. So why doesn’t that feel like enough?

Margaret is thrown for a loop when she first meets Charlotte Gustafson, Concordia’s newest and most intriguing resident. As an excuse to be in the mysterious Charlotte’s orbit, Margaret concocts a book club get-together. She invites two other neighborhood women, Bitsy and Viv, to the inaugural meeting.

The women share secrets, cocktails, and their honest reactions to the controversial bestseller The Feminine Mystique. They begin to discover that the American dream they’d been sold isn’t all roses and sunshine. And that their secret longing for more is something they share.

They nicknamed themselves the Bettys, after Betty Friedan. These four friends have no idea that their impromptu club and the books they read together will become the glue that holds them fast through tears, triumphs, angst, and arguments. And what will prove to be the most consequential and freeing year of their lives.

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This author’s books are ones I really think you’d like. It’s women’s fiction with different female characters, about their lives in that neighborhood.