My Current Interest

Image provided by Kensington Books      I find I go through streaks where I reject book after book for one reason or another.  For some reason, I just don’t want to read what I have on hand.       I was going through one of these streaks when I began reading A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder .   As I read, I found myself relieved.   Finally, I had found a book I wanted to read to the end.      Frances Wynn, AKA Lady Harleigh, AKA Countess of Harleigh, is ready to break free from her family.   She has completed her year of mourning for her husband, Reggie, and wants to escape her brother-in-law and his wife.   Graham and Delia have been using Frances’ money to keep up the household.   With Frances leaving, and taking the money with her, everything may fall apart.      Taking her daughter Rose with her, Frances moves to the city.   She finds a place to live, and experiences a great sense of freedom and accomplishment.      Then things start to go wrong.      The first attack

     What to say about Andi Mack ?  In all honesty, I don’t know.  It’s definitely a different kind of kid’s show, dealing with teenage motherhood to begin with; then moving onto other situations, such as one of the main characters being gay.  These are not topics generally seen on shows aimed at a younger audience.  Yet, Andi Mack talks about these situations, and others.  They do it with a maturity that makes the show enjoyable for older viewers, but also a lightness to make the show not too serious for others.  It is truly a show for all ages.      On her thirteenth birthday, life for Andi Mack (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) changes forever.   She is excited her older sister Bex (Lilan Bowden) is in town, but does not know Bex has arrived for something other than Andi’s birthday.      Bex has returned home to tell Andi she is her mother, not her sister.      This information shakes Andi’s entire world, as it would for any person.   What should she call the people she always saw as her

     It seems the Olivia situation may have FINALLY gotten taken care.  The resolution doesn’t come until the end of Going, Going, Ganache , but it gives me hope for the future of the series.  It’s about time.         Cupcake bakery owners Mel Cooper and Angie DeLaura are going to be featured in a popular and prestigious local magazine, Southwest Style .   It is a great honor which goes badly from the start.   Instead of being photographed as themselves, Mel and Angie are forced to pose in costumes.   Then rival baker Olivia Puckett crashes the photo shoot.   A fight breaks out, the photo shoot is damaged, and Fairy Tale Cupcakes are the ones blamed.      To cover the cost of the damages, and to get his publishing team to finally work together, the new owner of Southwest Style , Ian Hannigan, has Mel and Angie hold a cupcake bootcamp.   His team must work together, guided by Mel and Angie, in making the cupcakes for a gala the magazine is putting on.      That is Hannigan’s pla

     Darn these cliffhangers!  Just when I thought things were going to be resolved, the book ended with uncertainty again.  Now I have to wait for book three to find out what is going to happen to these storylines I want an answer to!      With life becoming settled at the Bell Inn, book two of the Tales from Ivy Hill series turns to those living at Ivy Cottage.        After losing her house to a distant heir, Rachel Ashford has moved into Ivy Cottage, the home of her friend Mercy Grove.   Mercy has turned the house into a school for girls.   To feel less like she is being given a place to stay out of charity, Rachel offers to teach in order to earn her keep.   The problem is, Rachel is not very good at teaching.   Still wanting to earn her lodgings, Rachel must figure out another way to earn a living.                   Rachel’s solution is to open a lending library .  She has inherited all her father’s books, and per his will, she cannot sell them.  A library is the best way t