Laura’s Notes from the Handbasket
Off to Toronto
Quick note from an anonymous hotel near the St. Louis airport. I’m on my way to Toronto tomorrow morning for Bouchercon, the mystery convention. I won’t be staying here again–even though it’s a very nice place– because it neither has HGTV nor TCM. Since I don’t have satellite or cable at home I count on …Read More
Tuesday Photos, 10 October 2017
Last Monday I was taking photos of my front door, and had my iPhone in my back pocket. Squatting wasn’t working so well, so I sank back on my bottom and heard a terrible crack. I don’t know what I thought it was, but I didn’t imagine it was my phone screen. I didn’t realize …Read More
Another Rebecca? Perhaps.
On Friday a friend told me that there’s yet another re-imagining of Daphne DuMaurier’s novel, Rebecca, in the works. Rebecca is the iconic 1938 suspense tale about an unnamed young heroine who, while working as a companion to a snobbish old woman, meets Maxim, the man of her dreams. He carries her off to Manderley, the family pile, …Read More
