📚Melissa Amateis 🦊
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📚Melissa Amateis 🦊
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Novelist. WW2 Historian. Classic movie fan. #TCMParty. Mom. Chronic illness (ME/CFS). Snoopy collector. Obsessed with books, chocolate, & 🦊 🦊
📍Nebraskan living in Virginia www.melissaamateis.com
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Wanted to share the links to my books!
Nonfiction:
NEBRASKA POW CAMPS:
www.amazon.com/Nebraska-POW...
WWII IN NEBRASKA: www.amazon.com/World-War-II...

Historical Fiction:
THE STRANGER FROM BERLIN
www.amazon.com/Stranger-Ber...
Daily Peanuts!
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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The world may be quite turbulent at the moment, but I think we can all take at least some solace in the fact that libraries, cafés, bookstores, bakeries, museums, and Oxford commas exist.
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
It came in the mail today so of course I'm watching it! #Noirvember #TCMParty #filmnoir
Because it's #Noirvember, of course I had to buy a #filmnoir on DVD to add to my collection! I went with THE BLUE DAHLIA. #TCMparty
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I made the mistake of checking 1950s-60s brooches on Ebay and am now in trouble... #PillowTalk #TCMParty
We need to go back to wearing beautiful brooches! I love the snowflake-style brooch Doris is wearing in this scene at the Connecticut cabin. #PillowTalk #TCMParty
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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November 26, 2025 at 2:23 AM
We need to go back to wearing beautiful brooches! I love the snowflake-style brooch Doris is wearing in this scene at the Connecticut cabin. #PillowTalk #TCMParty
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Alma with the sage advice: "Takes only one sip of win to know if it's a good bottle." #TCMParty #PillowTalk
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
OH MY GOD...REX'S (BRAD'S) CALF MUSCLES. Swoon!
#PillowTalk #TCMParty
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
It's even more special to watch #PillowTalk and know that Doris Day and Rock Hudson were such wonderful friends. #TCMParty
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I never would have thought to pair turquoise with an emerald dress, but somehow, Doris Day makes it work! #PillowTalk #TCMParty
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Lulu. ❤️
November 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Laughing at people who think Ken Burns' American Revolution documentary is too "woke" because it includes the voices of the Indigenous, the enslaved, & women. New flash: those people were ALWAYS THERE. You just haven't heard their stories until recently because they weren't deemed important enough.
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Today in 1926 Jeffrey Hunter was born.
November 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Day 25 #NoirvemberChallenge: Favorite Film Noir Featuribg a Boat:
Vincent Price in HIS KIND IF WOMAN in one of the best scenes ever!! #FilmNoir #Noirvember #TCMParty
November 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This was REALLY good! #Noirvember #TCMParty #Filmnoir
Tonight’s film noir: HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL.
#TCMParty #Noirvember #FilmNoir
November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Daily Peanuts!
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I need to have a print of this. What a gorgeous painting.
"Foxes" (1886), by Swedish artist Bruno Liljefors,
November 25, 2025 at 5:42 AM
My daughter to Slick when he's spilling his food everywhere and begging for more:
"There are cats on the streets! And you're wasting all this food!"
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Opinions Wanted
There is a man who does not live in my apartment building, yet parks his truck in our complex's parking lot, lets it idle, and sits in it and smokes every. single. night for 30 mins to an hour. It is 11:30 p.m. and people (me) are trying to sleep.
What's a good solution to this?
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Would my fellow #filmnoir and #TCMParty peeps consider 1946's DECEPTION with Paul Henreid, Bette Davis, and Claude Rains a film noir? I'm watching it again tonight.
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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I find it difficult to trust anyone who doesn’t consider The Princess Bride to be one of the greatest films of all-time.
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Tonight’s film noir: HOUSE ON TELEGRAPH HILL.
#TCMParty #Noirvember #FilmNoir
November 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Current playlist.
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This week, I’ll be celebrating the last of autumn. I want to soak in these remaining days of crisp, autumn breezes and leaves skittering on the sidewalk before the cold winter temperatures, snow, and cheery Christmas lights make their appearance!

Ahh, autumn. How I love thee.
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM