My Current Interest

             There is so much to say about this mini-series that it’s hard for me to decide what to say.   Probably the most important thing is for me to first give you a warning.   If you have a problem with nudity, sex, blood, or violence, The White Queen is not for you, because there is a lot of all of that.                 Elizabeth Woodville (Rebecca Ferguson) only wanted to get the lands back that were rightfully hers.   They were taken from her after the death of her husband because her husband believed in supporting King Henry VI.   She stood on the side of the road to plead her case to King Edward IV (Max Irons), never expecting to fall in love.                 Much to everyone’s surprise, Edward falls in love with Elizabeth too.   He is a philanderer known to stage false marriages in order to get women to go to bed with him.   Everyone suspects that is what he has done with Elizabeth, and that once he has achieved his goal, he will never see Elizabeth again.  

              My library has corrals of books near the circulation desk that you can grab like impulse items at a grocery store.   The library may not appreciate me comparing them to a grocery store, but I think it’s a great system.   The books change depending on what topics they want to feature, making it a place where you never know what you may find.   When the subject was mysteries, I found Buried in a Book .   It is a mystery series about a literary agency, so I had to see how it was.                 Lila Wilkins has been fired.   “Let go” is probably the more accurate term since many others are losing their jobs along with her, but that fact does not make it feel any better.   Lila has worked at the newspaper for years.   Now, without her job and her son’s college tuition coming up, Lila doesn’t know what to do.   In desperation, she applies to be an intern at a literary agency.   It isn’t what Lila expected to be doing with her life, but at least it’s something.    

Image provided by Sourcebooks.              It is true, with most of history we think only of the men that were involved.   Hardly ever do we hear about their wives who were at home (or sometimes by their sides) while their husbands made history.   While watching Schindler’s List I didn’t think about what Oskar Schindler’s wife was doing while he was creating his list.   To be honest, I didn’t think Mr. Schindler even had a wife.   According to Behind Every Great Man: The Forgotten Women Behind the World’s Famous and Infamous , he certainly did.                 Behind Every Great Man is full of women you probably either never heard of, or did not give much thought.   Even before reading Alex Haley’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X I knew Malcolm X had a wife, I just didn’t know anything about her.   Sadly, after reading the book, I still couldn’t tell you anything.   I don’t know if that was because she was not in the book much, or because I had to rush through it for a