My Current Interest

                   I was looking at the mystery section of the library one day and I found far too many new series I wanted to try.   Easily I could have walked off with a ton of books that day, but I was good.   Instead I only took a couple.   Then I made mental notes of the others so I could go back and reserve the first in each series.   One of the series that stuck in my head the most was The Family Skeleton Mysteries .   So far there are only three books in the series and already I have read them all.                       The Family Skeleton Mysteries revolves around Dr. Georgia Thackery, an adjunct English professor.   She’s living in her parents’ house while they are away on sabbatical and teaching at their school.   Living with Georgia is her teena...

Image provided by Acorn TV/RLJE.               I don’t know why some things grab me faster than others.   For years now I have watched TV shows distributed by Acorn Media, and in the front of many of those shows was a snippet of Foyle’s War .   Over and over I saw that piece, but I never thought it was a show I should watch.   Until recently that is.   Something happened, but I don’t know what.   Either the snippet changed or I saw a longer preview.   Maybe I just simply started paying better attention.   No matter what the change was, one day I saw the mention of Foyle’s War on one of the DVDs and I decided to give the show a try.   Now that I have, I find myself excited for each and every episode that comes my way.          Image provided by Acorn TV/RLJE.            Christopher Foy...

                I was looking for something else when I came across The Wedding Tree on my library’s website.   It was either below the item I wanted or in the recommended section.   Either way, the title caught my attention.   Then I read the synopsis and decided to give the book a try.   Once I started reading, I became hooked.   There were far too many nights I stayed up late reading because I wanted to know what was going to happen next.   A lot of times I was correct in my predictions, but there were other times where I was not quite sure.   In both instances, I found myself enjoying what was happening and wanted to keep reading.                     Adelaide has dark secrets.   They are secrets from very early in her life that very few, if anyone, know about.   When she f...

                 War & Peace is one of those books I have always heard people joke about reading.   A huge piece of literature (both in fame and page amount), it is something that, comparatively speaking, very few have read or even attempted to read.   I certainly haven’t, although I did consider it after watching the recent miniseries that aired on TV.   Actually, I watched the miniseries twice.   The first time was when it was on television.   The second was on DVD.   I did this because so much happens that I felt with the commercial interruptions I kept missing something.   The continuity was always gone.   While I did enjoy War & Peace while it was on TV, I must say it was so much better on DVD .   Without the commercials, I could follow the story much more easily.   With a story as big as War & Peace , that is a good thing to be able to ...

               I was so excited this past spring when I saw The Doctor Blake Mysteries was going to have the second season air on PBS .   Ever since the first season ended last summer, I have been checking the PBS schedule every few weeks to see when the other seasons were going to be on.   I expected to only get one season at a time with many months in between, but instead I received a great surprise.   PBS aired season three immediately after they aired season two.   This let me have many months of Dr. Blake, and now I am only one season behind.   Since I like this show so much, for me this is very exciting.                                At the start of season two it is revealed that Danny (Rick Donald) has been transferred to another polic...