My Current Interest

               I am always happy when I find a new mystery series to read.   This time I found one in a Little Free Library I happened to walk past.   Of course, the book in this particular library was the third in the series, so I couldn’t just get started.   I had to wait until the first book came in from my usual library .   Not that this was a problem.   I’m able to hold onto the third book for as long as I want, so no matter how long it takes me to read the first two, I’ll be able to keep this third one on hand.   Because that is one of the great things about the Little Free Libraries.   There aren’t any due dates.                                Pastry Chef Juliet “Jules” Capshaw has returned to her hometown in Oregon.   Leaving...

                Lately, all I have wanted to do is read.   In a little over a week I crammed through three books.   Two were done in just over a weekend.   One of those two books was Death in Reel Time , the second book in the Family History Mystery series.   How long exactly it took me to get through this book, I don’t know.   All I know is it did not take me long, but I enjoyed it along the way.                           Genealogist Sophreena McClure and her business partner Esme Sabatier have had their services given to Olivia Clement, a local woman recovering from cancer, as a gift.   As they are working for free, they are not expected to go to the extents that they would for other clients, but they will be looking into Olivia’s family history and report...

Image provided by RLJE/Acorn DVD.         Oh, Garrow.   I don’t know how many times I said those words while watching this series.   Far too many to count, I’m sure.   That’s because with each episode I saw a good man get himself into trouble.   No matter what he did, somehow it led to a difficult situation.   Sometimes this happened because he was standing up for his principles.   Other times it was because of love.                          William Garrow (Andrew Buchan) is a young lawyer who spends his time watching trials at the Old Bailey in London.   It is there that Garrow realizes how unfair the trials are as the accused rarely, if ever, have adequate representation.   Mostly the accused are forced to represent themselves with only prosecutors truly getting the chance to state their case...