Furever After

This is the 16th entry in the Magical Cats mystery series by Sofie Kelly. I read the first two books, Curiosity Thrilled the Cat and Sleight of Paw and enjoy both the plots and the characters.  These are cozy mysteries with the added element of two cats who are anything but ordinary house pets. Owen can disappear at will and Hercules can walk through walls, doors, etc. Of course they are very smart and often have to help their owner, librarian Kathleen Paulsen, solve mysteries by providing clues.  In this book she is getting ready to marry Detective Marcus Gordon and the story focuses a lot on the strong network of friends that Kathleen has formed in her small town of Mayfield. When she finds a dead body in the library, she feels compelled to try and figure out why the victim, ne'er do well Will Redfern, was trying to steal a painting from the library. It turns out the painting was part of a high profile theft some years ago and was never recovered. How did it end up in the library and why would someone kill Will Redfern? Our protagonists are put in mortal danger before the wedding and their union surprisingly comes with a bonus. 

The Mystery of the Crooked Man

This mystery by Tom Spencer (pseudonym for Tom Perrin) starts out slow but eventually pulls you into the twisty plot. The main character is a bit of an anti-hero and the ending is a surprise. Here is Publishers Weekly's review in full: 

"Spencer... serves up an affectionate homage to Agatha Christie that seamlessly blends satire and fair-play mystery. Crotchety archivist Agatha Dorn is an expert on Gladden Green, author of a bestselling mystery series featuring the Poirot-like Père Flambeau. After she's passed over for a promotion, Dorn discovers the manuscript of an unpublished Flambeau novella by Green. She convinces Green's publisher to let her write an introduction to the text, which she insists she's vetted, and quickly becomes a literary sensation. Her achievement is marred, however, when her best friend and ex-lover, Amy Murgatroyd, dies--ostensibly by suicide, but Dorn suspects foul play. Then the novella turns out to be a fake, and a disgraced Dorn starts catching glimpses of a shadowy figure who resembles a villain from another Green novel. Bruised and grieving, she sets out to solve the mystery of Murgatroyd's death. Dorn is a refreshingly acerbic and misanthropic lead, and Spencer ushers the plot through a series of wild swings without sacrificing plausibility. This witty whodunit will delight fans of Anthony Horowitz. " 

And here are excerpts from the New York Times short review: "Sometimes you know immediately that a book is going to get under your skin and stay there...Spencer’s tart debut... vaults the reader into the world of Agatha Dorn, an irritable archivist and passionate devotee of mystery fiction — particularly the work of Gladden Green (think Agatha Christie through a fun-house mirror.) ...Is Agatha 'a crazy woman, haphazardly but unmistakably drifting down and out, sick, unemployed, drunk, obsessed with solving a murder that had never occurred?' Or 'a maverick, pursuing truth and justice … even at the cost of [her] own well-being?' Maybe she’s both."

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

Okay, maybe only a book nerd would find this mystery engaging, and I am and I did; although, I never really came to like the protagonist, Assistant Director of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Liesl Weiss.  Author Eva Jurczyk has herself been a librarian and this is her debut novel; she has written for several publications, however, and the writing, plotting, and characterization is certainly competent. 

Liesl is suddenly called back from her sabbatical, happily writing a book on gardening, to fill in for her boss, Christopher Wolfe, who has been hospitalized with a stroke that's left him unconscious. Things immediately go awry for a number of reasons. First of all, Liesl doesn't really like the limelight and has been happy all these years doing everything to make Christopher look good to university administration and the collection's wealthy donors. Secondly, a few members of her staff are miffed about her being made acting director and aren't particularly supportive. Thirdly, she can't find the combination to the safe in Christopher's office, in which, supposedly, the department's newest acquisition, a Plantin Polyglot Bible is being kept safe until it can be evaluated for insurance purposes. And finally, when Christopher's wife shows up with the safe's combination, the Bible isn't there and the big reveal party for the main donors is just a day away. As time goes on, it's found that another of the collections prize possessions is missing, and eventually a third item is found to be a forgery. Liesl must eventually conclude that the nearly priceless items have been stolen, and that it's an inside job. When her protege, quiet and trustworthy Miriam Peters, goes missing shortly after the discoveries, suspicions immediately fall on her. Liesl is being pressured by the university president--and some of her colleagues-- to hide the fact that valuable items and a member of her staff is missing. Liesl wants to notify the police...what should she do? 

Kirkus calls the book "a valentine to librarians that doesn’t shy away from their dark sides." Publishers Weekly, somewhat more subdued in their response, concludes "Mystery readers are likely to be disappointed by the crimes and their solutions, and bibliophiles may feel that the rare books themselves are given short shrift, despite the author’s obvious research. This works best as an unflinching appraisal of the personal and professional effects of a woman’s aging into invisibility."

The Paris Library

The author, Janet Skeslien Charles,  uses the American Library in Paris (ALP) as the centerpiece of this historical novel, where Charles actually worked as a programs manager for a time. Based largely on actual people and events, the book introduces us to the dedicated staff and loyal subscribers (patrons) of the ALP during the Nazi occupation of Paris. Told mainly from the POV of Odile, a young woman who has to fight her father to take a job at the ALP in 1939, and of Lily, a teenager in rural Froid, Montana in the 1980's. The book is about friendship, human failings, and the role that libraries and books played in sustaining the morale of war prisoners and hospital patients as well as those living under German occupation. When Odile gets the job at the ALP, it is a dream come true for her. Her aunt had been bringing her to the library since she was a child and that was where she learned to speak English. Her twin, Remy, is a law student who falls in love with one of Odile's colleagues, the children's libarian, Bitsi. When the Germans draw closer to Paris, Remy enlists, with Bitsi's support, which, for a time, strains the relationship between Odile and Bitsi. Eventually they come to be like sisters, bonded by their mutual love for Remy, who is wounded and imprisoned by the Germans. Odile also befriends the American wife of a British diplomat, who feels lost in a country where she has no friends and does not speak the language. Margaret becomes an indispensable volunteer at the ALP.  Odile is in love with, and eventually engaged to, a police officer, Paul;  one of the main secrets that is not revealed until the very end is why Odile is now living in Montana, the widow of American husband. Odile has kept to herself since her husband's death, but befriends Lily, whose mother has died, and tries to help Lily not make some of the same mistakes that Odile feels she has made. "The answers unspool in this well-plotted and richly populated novel" according to the New York Journal of Books.

Kirkus calls the book "an intelligent and sensuously rich novel of a young woman's coming-of-age." Publishers Weekly says it's "a delightful chronicle of a woman’s life in WWII-era Paris and rural 1980s Montana."

An absolutely must-read is the Author's Note which details what happened to several of the main characters after the war. The author's website also provides some wonderful archival materials to learn more about the actual people who staffed and supported the ALP.

The Library Book

Part history, part mystery, part paean to libraries, this book by Susan Orlean is a fascinating read for those of us who love books and libraries.  Orlean was a long-time lover of libraries from the time she was a child and shared a ritual weekly visit to her local library in Shaker Heights, Ohio, with her mother.  On her website, she says of that time, "The very air in the library seemed charged with possibility and imagination; books seem to have their own almost human vitality." But she fell away as an adult, becoming more of a book buyer than a book borrower and forgot "how magical libraries are." She only reconnected with that buried passion when she began taking her own son to the library.
"On April 29, 1986, the Central Library in downtown Los Angeles caught fire and burned. Nobody died, though 50 firefighters were injured and more than a million books were damaged" (New York Times). No one ever really proved that the library fire was set, although a man, wannabe actor Harry Peak, was accused. But at the time (1986) the place was a firetrap, with poor wiring and books stacked everywhere, including in the stairwells. The NYT review goes on to say, "At any rate, the 1986 fire inside the Central Library, and the subsequent, inconclusive investigation of it, turn out to be a MacGuffin, a trick for luring the reader into a subject into which the reader never imagined he’d be lured: the history and present life of the Los Angeles Central Library. Much of the book consists of its author wandering around a library building, watching and listening to the people inside it." So not only is this a history of the library but also of the people who made it what it is today. It was often chauvinistic--women were not originally allowed in the reading room (it opened in 1873), but by 1885, it was run by women. But then the library board fired a perfectly competent woman director and hired Charles Lummis, a flamboyant journalist, adventurer, and self-promoter, who knew nothing of libraries, to be its director. Orlean offers a larger context to her story as well, providing a historical overview of book and library burning over the centuries. "The Nazis alone destroyed an estimated hundred million books during their twelve years in power."
Some of my favorite passages from the book have more to do with the importance of books in our lives. She notes that "in Senegal, the polite expression for saying someone dies is to say his or her library has burned....Our minds and souls contain volumes inscribed by our experiences and emotions; each individual's consciousness is a collection of memories we've cataloged and stored inside us, a private library of a life lived. It is something that no one else can entirely share, one that burns down and disappears when we die." She reminds us that some cultures, such as Judaism ("the people of the book") consider books sacred. "Destroying a culture's books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived."
If you care about libraries, you'll find this a rewarding read.

Review from The New York Times is very detailed. Additional glowing reviews from The National Book Review, The Guardian,  The Washington Post, and Kirkus.

Sleight of Paw

This is the 2nd installment in Sofie Kelly's "Magical Cats" series; I fell in love with Hercules and Owen in her first book, Curiosity Thrilled the Cat. The two kittens followed Kathleen home one day and she has since discovered that one of them can walk through walls (or doors) and the other is capable of disappearing at will. Of course, she can't tell anyone this for fear of really being considered a crazy cat lady. A second murder has occurred in the small town of Mayfield, Minnesota, where Kathleen has been hired on a 2-year contract to renovate the town's library. She is often homesick for Boston, but has also made several good friends in Mayfield. And when one of those good friends is accused of murdering an elderly woman, Kathleen feels she needs to find the real culprit. Having been considered a "person of interest" in the previous murder, she has now come to be on better terms with the local detective, Marcus Gordon. In fact, her friends really think she should ask him to the community's holiday dinner. And although he also likes cats and helps feed the feral cat colony at Wisteria Hill, sometimes he also infuriates her. They are just too different. I would pick up any of this series for a fun cozy mystery read.

Sorcery of Thorns

This fantasy novel by Margaret Rogerson is probably considered a YA entry, although the two main characters are in their 20's. Elizabeth Scrivener was taken into the care of one of the Great Libraries of Austermeer at Summershall when she was left on the doorstep as an infant. She has never known any other life. The books (grimoires) talk to her; they contain magic and secrets of sorcery. Some are fairly benign and others are so malevolent that they must be locked away in vaults to protect the populace. She is an apprentice when the story opens and wants nothing more than to become a Warden, i.e., an official protector of the Great Libraries. But someone has started attacking the Great Libraries and Elizabeth is the only one who wakes up when Summershall's wards are breached and the most dangerous of their grimoires is released, killing the library's Director. With the Director's sword, she manages to defeat the evil Malefict but is subsequently accused by a corrupt librarian of collusion in the attack and sent to the Magisterium for judgment. Her transportation is provided by Sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn and he looks cruel, and all sorcerers are evil, so Elizabeth has been taught. But he is kind to her, protects her from another attack by demons, and stands up for her in the Tribunal. Elizabeth doesn't know what to make of him. When she is taken into the home of the Master Sorcerer of Austermeer, she finds out that the attacks on the Great Libraries are being planned by him, to what end she doesn't know. He tries to have her imprisoned in an insane asylum, but she escapes and tries to convince Nathaniel to help her uncover the plot and defeat the perpetrator.
Elizabeth, Nathaniel, and Nathaniel's dedicated demon, Silas, are all fully drawn characters and the plot is intricate and well executed. This was an engaging and enjoyable read. Favorable review from Kirkus,

File M for Murder

This is the 3rd installment in Miranda James' "Cat in the Stacks" mystery series, and obviously I like them since I have been on a bit of a binge, starting with Murder Past Due and then on to Classified as Murder. Our protagonists are Charlie Harris, a rare books cataloger at tiny Athena College in Athena, Mississippi, and his 30 pound Maine Coon cat, Diesel. But along the way we have accumulated several other recurring characters who enrich Charlie's life and the stories. Characters from both of the first two books, Justin and Stewart, have now become boarders in Charlie's big historical house, inherited from his departed aunt Dottie. Then there are Charlie's children. First his son Sean quit the high-powered law firm in Houston and returned home (in Classified as Murder), and in this book, his daughter Laura, a budding actress, moves home temporarily to take a teaching position in the theater department at the college. Unfortunately, Laura got the position with the help of former paramour and Athena native son Connor Lawton, a brilliant but also drunken and abusive playwright who is the current writer-in-residence at the college. When he is murdered, Laura becomes the prime suspect initially. That is, until threats start being made against her. As before, Charlie feels that Deputy Sheriff Kanesha Berry could be moving a bit faster finding the culprit with a little help. Start with the first book and enjoy the evolving relationships between these interesting characters. Great cozy read for lovers of books and cats!

Classified as Murder

This the 2nd installment in Miranda James' "Cat in the Stacks" series starring rare book cataloger, Charlie Harris and his Maine Coon cat, Diesel (see my post on Murder Past Due, the 1st in the series). Diesel has his own Facebook page here by the way. And why not? He has been Charlie's constant companion ever since Charlie's wife and his aunt Dottie died a couple years ago and he always seems to understand what Charlie is saying. He goes with Charlie everywhere-- on a leash when they walk to work at the university library archives where they live in Athena, Mississippi, or in the car when Charlie runs errands. On one of the Friday afternoons when Charlie is volunteering at the reference desk of the public library, a frequent patron, James Delacorte, asks Charlie if he would consider doing an inventory of Delacorte's rare book collection. He is afraid one of his family members has been stealing books from his personal library. Since the university is on spring break, Charlie agrees, but first he must meet the family, who all live in the Delacorte mansion: a hypochondriac sister, Daphne; her ne'er do well son Hubert and his wife, Eloise, who spends a lot of her time in a world long past; a great niece, Cynthia, a nurse at the local hospital; a great nephew, Stewart, who is a professor at the university; and the very proper English butler, Nigel Truesdale, who has been with Mr. Delacorte for decades. Mr. Delacorte isn't sure who is stealing his priceless books, or even if they have been stolen, but before he can find out, he is murdered with cookies--he was deathly allergic to peanuts. Deputy Sheriff Kanesha Berry as well as Mr. Delacorte's attorney think Charlie should complete the inventory, and maybe also keep an eye on the rest of the family while he's at it. With the help of his son, Sean, who has unexpectedly quit his job as a corporate attorney in Houston and moved home, Charlie discovers that several valuable first editions have indeed been swapped out for inferior copies, and that Delacorte's most recent purchase, a near-priceless copy of Poe's Tamarlane, is, in fact, missing. Diesel solves the theft, but it turns out it's not the same culprit that murdered Mr. Delacorte. This series continues to hold up with interesting characters, local color, and solid plotting.

Murder Past Due

Doesn't get any better than this for a light cozy read: a cool Maine Coon cat, libraries, authors! First time I have read any of this "Cat in the Stacks" series by Miranda James (one of Dean James' pseudonyms), but I will definitely read more any time I want a little reprieve from the heavy stuff. This is the first in the series and we meet part-time university archivist, Charlie Harris and his rescued Maine Coon cat, Diesel. Charlie's wife as well as his dearest aunt both died a couple of years ago and so Diesel is his primary companion; he takes him everywhere, including walking him on a leash to work at the small university in Athena, Mississippi. When Aunt Dottie died, Charlie inherited her beautifully maintained old house and her house-keeper, Azalea, whose daughter, Kanesha Berry, is the Sheriff in charge of the investigation when a best-selling author and former classmate of Charlie's, Godfrey Priest, is murdered. Godfrey grew up in Athena and was always a jerk. He's still arrogant and rude but has just found out that he has a son by a woman he had a short affair with 19 years ago. That son, Justin Wardlow, turns out to be boarding with Charlie during his frehsman year at college. Between Justin's mom, Julia, and Azalea, who asks Charlie to help her daughter, Charlie gets involved with the investigation. And as Charlie learns more about Godfrey's life, the pool of suspects continues to grow; it seems that just about everybody in town has a reason to hate Godfrey Priest. Credible plotting, interesting characters, and authentic setting all add up to an enjoyable read.

The Bookshop on the Corner

This is a cozy mystery by Jenny Colgan (originally published in Britain under the title The Little Shop of Happy-Ever-After) set in Birmingham and the Highlands of Scotland. Anyone who has ever mourned the digitization of libraries to the exclusion of books will identify with Nina Redmond, librarian and literary matchmaker extraordinaire, who has recently had to re-apply for her job at the Birmingham public library--and failed. But she has taken a stash of the books that were destined for the recylcing and, when added to all those she has accumulated at her flat, feels she could start her own mobile library. Responding to an advertisement in the paper, she makes the long trek to the Highlands of Scotland to check out a big (really big) van for sale. Although the crotchety owner won't sell it to her, the friends she makes at the local pub (where she recommends books for them to read) decide to buy it from the recalcitrant owner and sell it to Nina. They also help her get it fixed up and running and she makes the enormous leap of faith to leave home and friends and everything she has known until now to move to Scotland. Former landlord/ flat-mate/ best friend, Surinder, takes a leave of absence to join Nina for a few weeks to help her get settled. Nina quickly realizes she loves the wide open spaces and the wonderful people (most of them) and cannot imagine moving back to the crowds and crime of Birmingham.

Nina has never been particularly good at matchmaking for herself and engages in yet another dead-end attachment, this time with a refugee train engineer, who leaves books and poems for her at the railroad crossing near her village. Eventually she learns he already has a son and long-time girlfriend back home, so Nina subsequenly--and predictably-- gets involved with her rude landlord. This is the least interesting part of the book, but Nina's explorations of Scotland, her growing involvement with her tiny village community, and her finding her own life and ways to express it are really enjoyable.

Killer Librarian

OK... how could I possibly resist a book with this title. Mary Logue, writing as Mary Lou Kirwin, author of both fiction and non-fiction works, has started a new series featuring Minnesota librarian, Karen Nash. Karen is all packed and ready to go on her dream trip of a lifetime--a trip to London with her long-time boyfriend Dave, a plumber. When Dave calls just hours before they are to leave for the airport and tells her they are through, does this intrepid woman have a meltdown? No, she books a ticket for herself and goes anyway. On the plane she discovers that Dave is also still making the trip, but with a much younger and very slender blonde. Since Karen fortuitously gets bumped to first class, they never see her on the plane, but she follows them once they all arrive in London.
On her first night, her B & B owner, Caldwell, takes her to the local Indian restaurant for a curry and follows that up with a visit to his favorite pub. Becoming a bit tipsy due to the rather strong British brew that Caldwell and his friends keep putting in front of her, she confides in the man standing next to her at the bar about the wretched way Dave has treated her and her fantasies of killing him.
Next morning, Karen discovers one of the B & B's elderly guests dead in a sitting room chair. She's not so sure it was just an accidental heart attack and everyone, including Caldwell, the dead man's younger wife, and the dotty sisters who come every year for the Chelsea flower show are suspects in Karen's mind.
Meanwhile, Karen is loving London, but also hearing that the confidante of her drunken ramblings may have connections to the criminal elements, and she is alarmed when she sees him talking to Dave's new girlfriend outside the National Gallery. What has she set in motion? This is an engaging character, a fond portrait of London, and an entertaining cosy for book lovers. I will definitely keep my eye out for the next book, Death Overdue.

A Fool and His Honey

This is book #6 in the "Aurora Teagarden" series by Charlaine Harris. I have not read these in order but found a couple of them in the "Friends" shop at the public library and I have really enjoyed her other series with Lily Bard and Sookie Stackhouse. In this book, Aurora is married to Martin, and although she no longer needs to work, she is back to being a part-time librarian at the public library in the the Atlanta bedroom community of Lawrenceton. One afternoon she answers the front door and is met by Martin's niece, Regina, carrying her new baby, Hayden. Aurora and Martin have a dinner engagement that evening and when they return, they find, Regina missing and her husband, Craig, lying dead on the stairs leading to the garage apartment. The baby is found safely hidden under the bed in the apartment. Inside, they find a groggy Rory,  Craig's best friend, sleeping behind the sofa in the den. Unable to reach Regina's mother (Martin's sister, Barby), who is on a cruise, and determined to get the baby with someone who can take care of him, they head to Ohio to find Craig's adoptive parents. When that doesn't work out, they decide to stay a few days at Martin's family farm, where he had been letting Regina and Craig--and apparently, Rory--live. But the person who killed Craig, and perhaps kidnapped Regina, is so desperate to find the baby, that more people will die. As with all Harris' characters and books, no one is free of dark character flaws, nor are the endings always happy. Still, she is a good writer, the plots are tight, the characters and sense of place are well-developed. No regrets at reading this one.

The Borrower

Rebecca Makkai is also a new author for me, but my friend Anne Z. said she was sure I would go for this book. And indeed the characters are very engaging, primarily Lucy Hull, who is filling in on a rather long-term basis as a children's librarian at the public library in Hannibal, Missouri, and her most bibliophilic patron, 10-year old Ian Drake. It turns out that Ian may be exhibiting behavior that leads a lot of people to think he is gay and his parents are so phobic and fundamentalist that they not only forbid his reading of anything to do with wizardry, adult content or evolution but they have signed him up for "Reboot Camp," run by the Reverend Bob Lawson's Glad Hearts Ministry, designed to help strays return to the (heterosexual) fold. Lucy is enraged but limits herself to surreptitiously checking out books for Ian in her own name until one fateful morning. She arrives early at the library to find Ian has spent the night, is running away, and is begging her to drive him to his grandmother's house--even though Lucy knows he does not have a grandmother. Crazily enough, she gets in the car with him and they begin driving, with her thinking at every point that she will take him home, as soon as she has inoculated him, somehow, to stand up to the anti-gay regimen to which he is being subjected. But they never manage to have that conversation and they keep driving--all the way to Vermont and the Canadian border--and it turns out that Lucy is running away as well. Is Lucy a kidnapper or the kidnappee, a savior or an intrusive busybody. Eventually Ian decides to return home. I felt a bit let down at the end. Lucy manages to sneak a list of "must read" books past Ian's mother and then goes on her way, hoping Ian will triumph and most readers will be left hoping, too. Lucy moves on to another job and reconciles herself somehow to a past and a parent she doesn't fully understand. What shines through this narrative is Lucy's faith that books can save people, and since I believe that, too, it wasn't a bad journey to take with Lucy and Ian.

Real Murders

This is the first in the "Aurora Teagarden" series by Charlaine Harris (also writes the Sookie Stackhouse, Lily Bard, and Harper Connelly series). Of particular appeal since Aurora is a librarian in a very small-town-feeling suburb of Atlanta. Real Murders is the name of the club to which Aurora belongs that discusses famous old murder cases. On this particular meeting night, however, she arrives to find one of the members has been murdered in the fashion of the case the group had planned to discuss. And that's just the beginning. The bodies continue to pile up--always group members or those close to them and always copying the details of a famous old murder case. Lily and her new neighbor, a famous mystery writer, can't help but go nosing around and consequently put themselves in the direct path of the killers. But I already told you it was a series, right? BTW, I really like the Lily Bard mysteries--set in the town of Shakespeare, Arkansas. I've been listening to them mostly on CD and haven't written about them yet, but they are very good. Lily has survived a traumatic kidnapping and torture/rape in her youth and now lives and works in a small town where no one knows her past--at least initially. Start with Shakespeare's Landlord.

Somewhat complicated and pretty entertaining

I'm a sucker for Nancy Perl's book talks and this is one I heard her do on NPR--in fact, while at the annual library conference in DC this June, I was on a tour of NPR and actually got to watch the beginning of the interview she did with Steve Inskeep in which she reviewed this book. You can read her well wrought and much more plot-informative preview here. The Grand Complication by Alan Kurzweil was well worth the read and the most succinct description I can provide is that it's very clever. Not only does this story about a watch end exactly on page 360 (as in degrees!) but its protagonist is an obsessive compulsive reference librarian. Not that this would recommend it to everyone, and sometimes it's not even enough for me; however, this novel offered stories within stories (one character's family crest includes a book within a book), and deceit upon deceit. The cleverness ranges from the bawdy to the sublime, or to put it another way, from humor that will be apparent to all--to insider librarian humor (no that is not an oxymoron). On one end we have the crucial clue ostensibly tattooed on someone's butt and the dialogue goes like this, "So all this time Kucko's been sitting on the evidence? Cheeky bastard." At the other end, when Zander (our librarian protagonist) "borrows" a book from the conservation room of the library, he replaces it with one of equal weight so the loss won't immediately be apparent; the replacement item is a tome on bibliokleptomania. When one character tells Zander that he can't return the book because he's sent it out to have the boards repaired, our librarian whines that the conservator "keeps a detailed condition log. He's bound to notice." Anyway, if these puns are too obscure, there will still be plenty to engage and entertain you.