My Current Interest

Image provided by Sourcebooks.             I don’t know how many times I have watched The Men Who Built America on the History channel, and yet I’m still not sure I’ve seen it all.   There are a lot of episodes that I seem to always come in partway through.   Despite this, I have found one man in particular that grabs my attention whenever I watch.   That man is the very prominent and successful businessman, Andrew Carnegie.   Why Mr. Carnegie has struck me as the most interesting, I’m not sure.   It might be because of the things he did (he did not seem to always only be out for himself, unlike some of the others), or it might have been because of the actor who played him.   Either way, when my mom and I came across the book Carnegie’s Maid while looking for something else, I thought of The Men Who Built America and knew I had to give this book a try.                 Sent by her family in Ireland to find work in America, Clara Kelley has very little to her name.  

            Some may call The White Princess a sequel to The White Queen .   I would call it a continuation of the story.   That’s because The White Princess pretty much starts where The White Queen leaves off.   That place is with Henry Tudor being king, and Princess Elizabeth as his betrothed.                       Despite what may seem to be a good, positive start to a mini-series, it’s actually not.   Henry (Jacob Collins-Levy) and Elizabeth (Jodie Comer) don’t want to be married.   In fact, they can’t stand each other.   Henry hates the fact that Elizabeth not only loved, but was sexually involved with the king that came before him.   It enrages him so much, that Henry becomes determined to humiliate Elizabeth in any way he can.   He tries, and almost succeeds, in sexually assaulting Elizabeth, but she manages to put a stop to it.   Still determined to have the upper hand, Henry informs Elizabeth that he and his mother, Margaret Beaufort (Michelle Fairley), have come up

            It’s always nice, in my view, to see a romantic situation get resolved in a series.   This is especially true when it feels as though things are realistically resolved; meaning not too rushed or done in an implausible and unrealistic way.   I’m happy to say, that none of those things happened with Kathleen and Marcus. The last person librarian Kathleen Paulson expected to find on her porch was her ex-boyfriend, Andrew.   Flying all the way from Boston to Mayville Heights, MN, Andrew is determined to win Kathleen back and have her go home to Boston with him.   Never mind the fact that he’s the one who up and married someone else while dating Kathleen.   According to Andrew, that is something Kathleen is somehow supposed to forget.                 Thankfully, Kathleen has much more sense than to get back together with Andrew just because he says so.   Despite things seeming to be over with Detective Marcus Gordon, Kathleen is not going to immediately throw hers