My Current Interest

Image provided by Acorn TV.             Oh, Agatha Raisin.   How I have missed you.   Yet, despite my missing you, you still drive me crazy.   If I feel this way watching, Agatha Raisin , how must the other characters feel having to deal with her directly?   It must be difficult being driven crazy by all Agatha gets up to, but loving her anyways.                       It has been a year since Agatha Raisin ( Ashley Jensen ) went off to find her runaway fiancé in Cyprus.   Now she is back in Carsley, and things aren’t exactly as she left it.   Gemma (Katy Wix) and Bill (Matt McCooey) are no longer together.   Sarah’s (Lucy Liemann) husband, the vicar for Carsley, is away doing missionary work in Nigeria.   New people have come to town.   And James (Jamie Glover), her ex-fiancé, has not returned.                 For the most part it’s okay James isn’t back in town.   He did leave Agatha at the altar, after all.   It is not revealed what happened between them in Cyprus, but it

              I kept going back and forth about whether or not I wanted to write about this book.   Every time I thought “yes”, one of the characters would tell the main character she was wrong for being who she was and what she looked like.   This bothered me every time it happened.   Yet, here I am, writing about this book.   That’s because, in the end, the story was too good not to.                                Josey Cirrini has spent most of her life caring for her mother.   As a child she was a terror.   Her behavior was so bad, people in her small hometown are still holding it against her almost twenty years later.   It doesn’t matter to any of them that after her father died, she vowed to make up for her behavior.   Since nine-years-old she has tried to make things up to her mother, but it doesn’t matter.   Everyone still sees her as the poor behaving child.                 The perception isn’t helped with the fact that Josey rarely goes out in the world.   If she did,

           I don’t know about you, but there have been times where I have seriously wondered why something or someone won the awards they did.   After watching Bohemian Rhapsody , I have no questions as to why Rami Malek won the Academy Award for his portrayal of Freddie Mercury.   He did a great job, and this is coming from someone who is very particular about who even sings the songs of Queen.   There is no doubt in my mind that Mr. Malek deserved all the accolades he received.                              It’s the early 1970s, and Farrokh Bulsara (Rami Malek), who will later change his name to Freddie Mercury, is struggling to find a direction in his life.   It is a fact his father points out regularly.   Then, on a night Freddie goes to see a band he likes, his life changes forever.   He finds out the lead singer has moved on from the band after their performance, leaving drummer Roger Taylor (Ben Hardy) and guitarist Brian May (Gwilym Lee) on their own.   When Roger and Brian

               While I don’t know if I would want seven older brothers myself, I certainly get a kick out of Angie’s, a character from the Cupcake Bakery mystery series.   With so many brothers, it will be interesting to see how they each appear in future books and storylines.                 Cupcake bakery owner Melanie “Mel” Cooper isn’t quite sure how she feels about her mother, Joyce, going out on a date.   It has been a while since her father died, but she’s still uneasy about her mother moving on.   To make the situation even more uncomfortable, Joyce insists that Melanie go dress shopping with her for the date.                 Despite Mel’s concerns, Joyce’s date happens, and it does not at all go as planned.   When she comes out of the pool changing room, instead of finding her date, Baxter Malloy, waiting for her, Joyce finds him dead.   Since she is the one who found him, this makes Joyce one of the main suspects.                  Her name is on a list that is not e