My Current Interest

               Argh!   I am so frustrated!   I found a really good show, but I will only ever have six episodes of it because it was cancelled after one season.   How aggravating.                 It’s World War I and four women have arrived at a field hospital in France.   One of the women is a nurse while the others are volunteers, there to do everything the medical staff do not have time to do.   Each of these women come from very different backgrounds and points of view.   These differences make it difficult for some of them to get along, creating tension in a situation where they all came expecting unity.                 The volunteer that has the most difficult time getting along with others is Rosalie (Marianne Oldham).   A strict believer and follower of the rules, Rosalie has a difficult time dealing with the human aspect of the job.   She becomes angry with those she works with over this, leading her to put her trust in the wrong person, something I hope she has figure

               Here I go again, trying out a bunch of new mystery series.   This time it’s a magical bakery.   When I saw that premise, I knew I had to give this series a try.                 Katie Lightfoot has moved to Savannah, Georgia to open a bakery with her aunt and uncle.   A trained baker, Katie is thrilled for this new opportunity.   Not only is this something she has dreamed about, but she will be leaving behind a bad work situation as well as a broken engagement.   This move from Ohio to Savannah is just the change Katie needs.                 What Katie finds, however, is much more change than she ever expected.   That’s because Katie discovers she is a witch.   She also learns that she’s not the only witch in the family.   Her Aunt Lucy and her parents are witches too.   In fact, like her relations, Katie has been a witch her entire life, something her parents never told her.   That is why it comes as such a shock to Katie when her Aunt Lucy tells her the truth.

               I’ll be honest, I wasn’t sure about this book when I first started it.   Immediately something put me off.   I don’t know if it was the language or the attitude of the first character we’re introduced to (which is not A.J. Fikry).   Either way, despite my initial reaction, I felt the need to keep going and give the book a better shot than the first few pages.   I am very glad I did.                 A.J. Fikry is a cranky man.   He owns a bookstore, but the types of books he likes and is willing to sell are very limited.   This makes it difficult for Amelia Loman, the new sales rep for a publishing house, to sell him any books.   On a whim, though, Amelia decides to leave A.J. a book she is particularly fond of.   It is the story of a man who found love very late in life.                 Of course, A.J. ignores the book Amelia leaves.   He can’t, however, ignore the rare book that was taken from his shop, or the child that someone leaves behind.   With the cops no

            For as long as I can remember, I have read about and studied World War II.   Mostly what I have looked into has been the Holocaust, which is probably why I missed the information about the German occupation of the Channel Islands.   That, however, cannot be the full reason.   With all the things I have read and watched, and with having taken more than one class that covered World War II, one would think somewhere along the line this occupation would have been mentioned.   Either I completely missed it, or it truly was not mentioned.   That is why, when I started watching the show Enemy at the Door , I found myself learning an entirely different part of World War II that I knew nothing about. Image provided by Acorn DVD. Enemy at the Door follows the lives of the citizens of the Isle of Guernsey during the World War II German occupation, as well as the ruling Germans that occupy it.   While the acting in this show could be dry and overdone at times, the stories were

               My mother told me about The Killing Fields quite awhile ago.   It may have been because she knows I like Sam Waterston , or it may have been because of the subject matter.   I don’t remember which.   Either way, my mother said this was a good film, so I put it on my movie list.   There it sat, slowly moving up, until I decided to take some of the films off my list and get them from the library .   That way I could watch more of them faster as I waited for the different sources to bring the requested film in.   This system has worked pretty well for me, and it’s how I finally watched The Killing Fields .                 Sydney Schanberg (Sam Waterston) is a journalist in Cambodia during their Civil War.   He has gone over to cover the actions that are happening between the Cambodian army and the Khmer Rouge.   To help him with his work is interpreter, and journalist himself, Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor).   Immediately upon his arrival, Sydney must face the fact that t