My Current Interest

                I’m always happy when a romantic situation gets figured out in a book series.   It makes everything flow so much easier.   Sadly, sometimes it also means the end of a series.   Fortunately, not in this case.                Library director Lindsey Norris may have gotten her romantic relationship with boat captain Sully figured out , but she now has another obstacle to deal with.   This time it is with the new president of the library board, Olive Boyle.   A true terror, Olive desires to change everything about the library, even though she has never shown any interest in anything about it before.   Now, as board president, Olive acts as though she owns the place.   While this irks Lindsey, she does try to get along.   At least she does until Olive starts attacking her employees.   Then she’s had it. Olive’s favorite employee to go after is the newest, Paula.   She is different from what most would usually consider an employee in a library (especially with her p

Image provided by Acorn TV.                Every year I eagerly await the new episodes of Brokenwood (as I call it) to come out.   That’s why it is so strange to think I have only watched five seasons and a total of twenty episodes.   I would think I would have watched more.   Every time I finish with a season, I find myself greatly looking forward to the next episodes to come.   Maybe that’s why it feels I have watched more than I actually have.                 The police force in Brokenwood can never get away from murder.   Even on their days off, Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Shepherd (Neill Rea), Detective Kristin Sims (Fern Sutherland), and Detective Constable Sam Breen (Nic Sampson) get wrapped up in a murder.                 Always having a murder to investigate is why Kristin has such a hard time getting together with her love interest, Kahu (Rawiri Jobe).   She is always either called away or too tired to do something.   This is not the problem for Breen, though.

Cover Design by Krista Joy Johnson / Sourcebooks              There are so many books about World War II.   No two people experienced it exactly the same way, leading to an uncountable number of stories able to come to the page.   Because of this, whether the book is fiction or non-fiction, the story itself is different.   Reading about a silk mill during the war, was definitely a new one for me.                        All Lily Verner wants to do is go to Switzerland and live her new adult life.   That is the plan until the threat of war puts a stop to it.   Now a very unhappy Lily is forced to stay in England and work at her family’s silk mill.                 Lily would like to work in the office.   Her father says no.   She must work on the shop floor to learn the business before she can work anywhere else.   This is something Lily is very reluctant to do, but she does it.   Before too long, Lily finds she actually enjoys working in the shop; working with others to create

               Even though I watch TCM on a semi-regular basis, I realized there are a lot of classic films I have never seen.   So, I decided to do two things.   First, create a list of films I know I should watch.   And two, wander the DVD section of the library and see what I can find.                 Wandering the library is how I found The Amazing Adventure .   It is a film I had never even heard of until I saw it on the shelf.   Once I found it, I was curious to see what this early Cary Grant film would be like.   Well, I can tell you this is a short film, but a good one.                 Millionaire Ernest Bliss (Cary Grant) isn’t feeling well.   He visits a doctor, Sir James Alroyd (Peter Gawthorne), who tells Ernest his only problem is he doesn’t have enough to do.   So, he issues a bet.   For one year, Ernest must live like an ordinary man.   He cannot use any of his money to sustain his living.   Ernest must earn it himself or pay Sir James £50,000.