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I started reading The Bodyguard  by Katherine Center at a very memorable moment. The power had just gone out for my street only. At that time of night, without any light, my two options were to go to bed early or read by flashlight. I opted to read by flashlight. One would think during this time I would go for a scary book. I chose a romance. While I worried about when the lights would come back on and if everything in the refrigerator and freezer was going to spoil, a light, fun romance was exactly what I needed. The Bodyguard Katherine Center Hannah Brooks needs a change of scenery Hannah Brooks’s life is not going well. Her mother has died. She has been taken off an assignment she was looking forward to. Plus, her boyfriend has broken up with her. With all this going on, Hannah needs to get out of town. Which is why she is not at all happy when her new assignment keeps her exactly where she lives. Guarding Jack Stapleton What are these assignments I am talking about?...

Season 7: Episode 4 Will knows better again. Or so he thinks. Thought Bubbles Kate Dorsey Will creates enough problems on his own Everyone loves telling Reverend Will Davenport (Tom Brittney) all their petty squabbles and concerns after his church services. It’s to the point Will hears so many concerns that he starts to tune them out. Which is why when Bonnie Evans (Charlotte Ritchie) shows up one morning after service, he is all too happy to turn his attention to someone who was not at church that day. Bonnie is at the church to talk about Cathy Keating (Kacey Ainsworth). Cathy is separated from her husband, DI Geordie Keating (Robson Green), and Bonnie is worried about how poorly Cathy is doing despite the front she puts on. Geordie is staying at the vicarage with Will, which gives Will direct access to see Geordie is not doing well with the separation either. Will and Bonnie hatch a plan to get the two of them together again. Except the plan goes terribly wrong. Both Geord...

Season 7: Episode 1 Get ready for a season of men acting like idiots. Will especially. I don’t know where Reverend Will Davenport’s head is in this seventh season of Grantchester , but it’s not in a good place. Grantchester Season 7 Robson Green and Tom Brittney Geordie’s in trouble again DI Geordie Keating (Robson Green) is living at the vicarage now that his wife, Cathy (Kacey Ainsworth) has kicked him out of the house. Before this, he already spent a lot of time with Reverend Will Davenport (Tom Brittney). Now that they are living together, he spends even more. Except the time they spend together is not always spent doing something Geordie wants to do. Instead of going to the local pub Geordie is happy to go to, one night Will drags Geordie to a jazz club. This is definitely not Geordie’s scene. When Will ditches Geordie for a woman on the dance floor, Geordie is all too happy to ditch Will in return. It’s probably a good thing Geordie took off that night. He was schedul...

There are some books that take me a long time to read. Then there are some I read quickly because I am curious about what direction the story is going to go. The Marriage Clock by Zara Raheem was a book I read quickly. The Marriage Clock Zara Raheem If only life were like a romantic movie Leila Abid has always imagined that finding the man for her would be like a Bollywood movie. So far, her path to a husband has been nothing like a movie. Now that Leila is in her mid-twenties, her parents are starting to get anxious about the fact their daughter is unmarried. Her mother is particularly upset about this single status. To solve the problem, Leila’s mother decides to help her find a husband in the traditional way she grew up with in India: by arrangement. For a while Leila lets her parents set her up with men. When these dates all turn out badly, Leila asks for time to find a husband on her own. Her parents give her three months. Three months to find a husband In those three...

I almost stopped reading I Was Better Last Night part way through. It was getting too heavy for me, which makes me sound like I have watched far too much Back to the Future . Although, I probably have. I watch a lot of Back to the Future . After deciding I was going to stop reading, I looked at the index to see if there was any topic I still wanted to read about before I returned the book to the library . What I found was “AIDS Memorial Quilt.” A quilter myself, I was curious how the author, Harvey Fierstein, was connected to the quilt. As I tried to find the page about the quilt, I came across the stage musical Kinky Boots . I wanted to see this show in its Chicago previews (having loved the movie ) but did not get the chance. Even with this Kinky Boots memory, I kept moving to the page about the quilt. What I discovered when I found the page was the fact Mr. Fierstein himself is a quilter. Between that and Kinky Boots , I decided I had to continue with the book. I Was Better L...

How Y'all Doing? Leslie Jordan T he day I finished How Y’all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived , I read an article about librarians facing an increase in filings about “books of concern.” Books mostly about either the LGBTQ+ community or race. For some reason, people are petitioning libraries to take these books off the shelves. Books they have possibly never even read but decided no one should. After reading the article, I decided I had to write about this book from Leslie Jordan. Some would believe How Y’all Doing? should not be read simply because Mr. Jordan is gay. That his story should be silenced. Neither Mr. Jordan’s nor anyone else’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or race should determine whether or not their story is told. They all have a right to be heard. On that exact same day, I started reading the Harvey Fierstein autobiography. Leslie Jordan is one of those actors you just know. You may not know his name, as I didn’t, but probably rec...

     I wasn’t sure if I was going to write about the fourth season of The Crown or not. It is a hard season to watch. There is a lot of bad behavior on all sides, making it difficult to declare anyone a villain. It definitely keeps me from declaring anyone a saint. Mostly, with each character, there is a lot of pain.        Tugs of the Heart Artwork by Kate Dorsey      The season starts with Prince Charles (Josh O’Connor) struggling to deal with the fact the woman he loves is with another man. Married to him, thanks to great-uncle Lord Mountbatten (Charles Dance). Mountbatten did not believe Camilla Shand (Emerald Fennell) was suitable for Charles. It was he who made sure Camilla married Andrew Parker Bowles ( Andrew Buchan ); keeping Charles from doing so himself.      Eventually Charles has enough. He tells Mountbatten how he feels about the situation. In one of Mountbatten’s last acts before his death, he writes a l...

Photo of DVD cover taken by Kate Dorsey      Gifted is a sweet, infuriating movie. Yes. I mean exactly what I wrote. Gifted is both sweet and infuriating. Which might be why this hour and forty minute film feels longer than it is. But the time is worth it.      Seven-year-old Mary Adler (Mckenna Grace) is not an ordinary girl. She has been raised by her uncle, Frank (Chris Evans), since she was a baby. Her mother, Diane, Frank’s sister, commit suicide, leaving Mary in Frank’s care. He left his professorship in Massachusetts and moved Mary to Florida for a new life.      Frank relies on the help of his neighbor, Roberta Taylor ( Octavia Spencer ), with raising Mary. In fact, it is Roberta who objects to Mary going to school. She senses something will go wrong. The truth about Mary will be discovered, and nothing will go well from there.      The truth about Mary is she is a mathematical genius, as her mother was. This gets d...

     When going through a hard time, there are books that can help you get through it.   Sometimes that book is a mystery.   Other times it is a thriller.   Sometimes what you need is a light and easy book you know will have a happy ending.   Second Chance Girl is that book.      Carol Lund doesn’t think she’s anything special.   She used to when she was a child.   Her family told her she was.   The world has told her something different.      As an adult, Carol doesn’t feel as good as others around her.   All her friends and her sister, Violet, are creative.   She is not.   Instead, she is the caretaker of exotic animals at the Happily Inc Animal Preserve.   Her work is not glamorous, but she loves it.      Mathias Mitchell is an artist who lives near Carol.   Happily Inc is a wedding town, which Mathias takes full advantage of.   He picks up bridesmai...