Sunday Snippets 12.28.25

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This week on Sunday Snippets 12.28.25…

Well, here we are at the end of 2025 and about to embark on 2026. Where on earth does the time go? Do I say that every year?

I spent Christmas here with the kitties. Kendra brought food from Kasi’s house on her way home, so I saw her, Riley, and Marley. Riley worked on Friday.

Yesterday, Kendra had the family over for grilled burgers and we ate outside because the weather was so nice. Her patio/pergola is not finished yet, but it will be before too long. It’s looking great and I know she will enjoy this space so much!

I saw Maggie/Magnolia, who is quite social now, and loves to be petted.

What I’m Watching:

Homeland

I’m still watching Homeland. I’m in the fourth season, and there are six. I wish they’d add more.

Series Summary:

Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody returns home following eight years in captivity. CIA agent Carrie Mathison thinks he has turned and is connected to a terror plot to be carried out on American soil. She draws him into a dangerous cat-and-mouse game that imperils America’s national security.

Later, Carrie is promoted and returns to the front lines overseas. She is assigned to one of the CIA’s most volatile and dangerous stations in the Middle East. And at the heart of the battle in the war on terror.

Years later, after being disillusioned and placing herself in a self-imposed exile in Berlin, Carrie becomes estranged from the CIA. She eventually returns to the States to work for a foundation that provides aid to Muslims living in America.

What I’m Reading:

I finished Before I Forget, which I reviewed this past week. Then I began reading Killers of the Flower Moon.

I borrowed this book and Hell in the Heartland, from Rhonda. I finished Killers of the Flower Moon, so now I’m reading Hell in the Heartland.

Killers of the Flower Moon

Book Summary

This book is about the Osage people in the 1920s. The wealthiest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.

Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances. Many who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered.

As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case. The young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent who infiltrated the region. Together the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

Hell in the Heartland

Book Summary

On December 30, 1999, in rural Oklahoma, sixteen-year-old Ashley Freeman and her best friend, Lauria Bible, were having a sleepover. The next morning, the Freeman family trailer was in flames, and both girls were missing.

While rumors of drug debts, revenge, and police corruption abounded in the years that followed, the case remained unsolved. The girls were never found.

In 2015, crime writer Jax Miller — haunted by the case — decided to travel to Oklahoma to find out what really happened that winter night in 1999. And why the story was still simmering more than fifteen years later.

What she found was more than she could have ever bargained for. Evidence of jaw-dropping levels of police negligence and entire communities ravaged by methamphetamine addiction, And a series of interconnected murders with an ominously familiar pattern.

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I hope you enjoyed this week’s edition of Sunday Snippets. Happy New Year!