My Current Interest

             Sometimes what I need is a nice cozy book to read.   One where there is a mystery, but nothing too deep.   Set in a place where none of the characters are evil, and most everyone gets along.   Yes, some days that is exactly the type of book I need.                     It’s winter, and everything seems to be going right in librarian Kathleen Paulson’s world.   She’s happily together with her love interest, Marcus.   Her new contract with the Mayville Heights library has been signed.   All her friends are doing good things with their lives and are ecstatic that Kathleen is staying in town.   On top of all this are Kathleen’s magical cats, Owen and Hercules.   They may drive Kathleen crazy at times, but she loves them dearly anyways.                 Even though things are going so well, there is one thing Kathleen is anxious about.   That is the fundraiser she’s putting on for the library’s Reading Buddies program.   In order to help keep the program going, the fu

               I go through these spurts where I become highly addicted to putting books on hold at the library .   Some people go shopping.   I put things on hold at the library.   Letters from Paris was one of the many things I put on hold.   Since I have really enjoyed Juliet Blackwell’s Witchcraft Mystery series, I decided to give one of her stand-alone novels a try when I was on one of my holding binges.   It took a little bit to read, though, because the problem with putting so many things on hold is getting through everything once I have them.                 Claire Broussard is tired of her life in Chicago.   Even though she did whatever she could to escape her small Louisiana hometown, Chicago is not the right place for her.   That’s why when Claire hears her grandmother is ill, she quits her job, dumps her boyfriend, and moves back to Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.                 After returning home, Claire comes across a mask of a woman hidden in her grand

            I don’t know why, but it took me quite a while to get into this Witchcraft Mystery book.   Maybe my brain was in too many places, which does have a tendency to happen sometimes.   Or maybe I was more up for a serious book than a light mystery.   It could have also been that I was just too tired or too distracted to really get going with any book, not just this one.   No matter what the reason, I still wanted to see what happened to Lily.   So, I made sure to keep diligently sitting down, reading one chapter each time, in order to get going.   In the end, I enjoyed this book as much as I have the others.                   It’s not uncommon for Lily Ivory to buy old clothes from someone.   She owns a vintage clothing store, after all.   That does not mean she’ll buy just anything, though.   When Lily first sees the beyond repair clothes in the trunk antiques dealer Sebastian Crowley is trying to sell her, Lily rejects the sale.   Then Lily finds a cape amongst the o