My Current Interest

Image provided by Sourcebooks.               I was only going to order a catalog, but as I looked at the home page of the Bas Bleu website, a couple of their featured books caught my eye.   One of those books was A Deadly Affection .   It took a couple of passes for me to actually see what the book was as the images kept flipping, but the cover was intriguing, so I kept trying.   Once I was able to figure out the book I was trying to catch, I reserved it from the library and found a whole new series to be excited about.                    It’s 1907, and Dr. Genevieve Summerford is thrilled to start her career as a psychiatrist.   Getting her degree was not an easy feat as she is a woman in a time when women are not supposed to be doctors.   With so many people doubting her abilities simply because of h...

               This series just keeps getting better.   Thanks to a very warm day, I was able to read this book in probably under twenty-four hours.   All I wanted to do that day was read.   Then, the more I read, the more all I wanted to do was read.   It’s nice to know that far too warm days are good for something.                 Kathleen Paulson has a really great talent for finding bodies.   This time she finds two (three, if you count the not-so dead rat).   First is a body from long ago.   She finds it when the ground breaks away beneath her because of the excessive rain her town has been having.   Despite the amount of time the body has been buried, it is quickly identified by the ring it is wearing.   The ring belonged to the father of one of Kathleen’s friends, Roma.   He is a...

                  As I stated in my post about Mercy Street , Home Fires is another show gone too soon.   With only two seasons to its name, I’m not sure why this show was cancelled.   There was so much more that could have happened had it been allowed to go on.                 It’s the start of World War II and the local Women’s Institute (WI) has disbanded to a degree.   Joyce Cameron (Francesca Annis), the domineering president, has been overthrown.   Now, to get back at the WI, Joyce is going to do everything she can to hinder whatever the remaining members set out to do.   In all honesty, the conflict between Joyce and the WI is really a bunch of petty squabbles.   It just goes to show, that even in times of war, petty squabbles don’t cease to exist.       ...

              Apparently, I was wrong when I wrote about the last book in the Magical Bakery Mystery series.   I thought things in Katie’s romantic life were only going in a certain direction and were still somewhat up in the air.   Then I started reading Charms and Chocolate Chips and I found out Katie’s romantic life is actually pretty settled.   At least it is for awhile.                 Katie Lightfoot seems to be hiding from something.   She spends all of her time either at the bakery or volunteering at a local conservation group, Georgia Wild.   This leaves her very little time to spend with her boyfriend, Declan, or deal with the revelation that she is a lightwitch, something neither she, nor anyone else, truly understands.               ...

               Just as with the Magical Cat Mystery series books, the second book of the Witchcraft Mystery series is far better than the first.   Again, maybe it’s because so many of the introductory elements were out of the way.   Getting in all the details of a person’s past can bog a book down at times.                 The San Francisco School of Fine Arts is haunted.   Recently the activity has increased, and now the students are looking for someone to rid them of their problem.   Who do they turn to?   Lily Ivory, owner of a vintage clothing store and witch.   Of course, the students don’t know she is a witch.   Despite telling her friends, being a witch is still something Lily keeps close to the vest.   The students do, however, know that Lily has certain abilities that could help them with...