My Current Interest

          One can never know with spin-offs.   Sometimes they can be far worse than the original, making one wonder why it was created at all.   Other times it can be a lot better, making the original fade in comparison.   As for The Amish Matchmaker mystery series, the spin-off of The Amish Candy Shop Mysteries , I’m not sure where I stand.   I was happy to have all the marriage pressure that is in The Amish Candy Shop gone.   The problem is, though, the annoying characters who are in The Amish Candy Shop just a little bit are far more prevalent in The Amish Matchmaker .   Since Matchmaking Can be Murder is only the first book in the Amish Matchmaker series, it may take me one or two more books to determine which series I like better.                 Millie Fisher has been away from her Amish community in Harvest, Ohio for many years.   She left to take care of her ill sister.   For ten years Millie cared for her.   Now that her sister has passed away, Millie is returning ho

              I almost stopped watching Land Girls after one episode.   One of the characters was too full of herself, while another was far too naïve.   It drove me crazy.   But, since there were only five episodes, I decided to keep going with the show.   I found the annoying characteristics did lessen some, and that I was able to push my irritation aside because of the other interesting characters.                 It’s World War II and women are moving to an estate to help work the land as part of the Women’s Land Army program.   Joyce Fisher (Becci Gemmell) has lost everyone and everything in a bombing.   The only family she has left is her husband, John (Nicholas Shaw), who is in the Royal Air Force.                               Nancy Morrell (Summer Strallen) is a young woman who believes she should be catered to and is above everyone else.   Not exactly an attitude that works well on a farm.                 Bea Holloway (Jo Woodcock) is a young, naïve girl.   She live

                It’s not always the case that I like every book an author writes.   So far, with Sarah Addison Allen , that is exactly what’s happening.   I have yet to come across a book of hers I don’t like.                 Emily Benedict doesn’t have anywhere else to go.   Her mother has died, and the only family she has left is a grandfather she knew nothing about growing up.   To live with her Grandpa Vance, a gentle giant, Emily must move to the town of Mullaby, North Carolina.   Just as with her grandfather, Emily doesn’t know anything about the town.   If she did, she might know and understand why her mother left it so many years before.                 Knowing why her mother left Mullaby would have been a big help for Emily as she tried to get acclimated to her new town.   That’s because her mother, Dulcie Shelby, left under a cloud.   Dulcie did not treat people well as a teenager.   She then did something to one of the members of the prominent Coffey family that led

               The series Ackley Bridge is definitely a wild ride.   I’m saying this after watching only the first two seasons!   With so much to talk about with this show, I’m just going to get started.                              A new school has been created in the community of Ackley Bridge.   It is a school that unites the white British students and the students with Pakistani heritage from the area into one school.   Not everyone is for this integrated idea, nor do they believe it will work.   For best friends Missy (Poppy Lee Friar) and Nasreen (Amy-Leigh Hickman), two cultures coming together isn’t much of a change. Image provided by Acorn TV.                 That’s because Missy is white and Nasreen is a British-born Pakistani.   These two girls think going to the same school will be exactly the same as when they hang out together on the street or at each other’s houses.   The first day of school shakes the girls out of this belief as Nasreen’s friends refuse to