DOA On TV Doc, Best Medicine, Lanterns, Great British Baking Show

 

 

 

 

 

Doc  Ep 2 S3  Ready or Not

A teen driving his family car gets into an accident, crashing the car into a deer and severely injuring his parents and sister.   The father has antlers buried in his chest making surgery difficult.  The sister and mother are barely hanging on.  Everyone on staff works to save the family, yet personal issues and past angers threaten the lives of the patients.

While the medical problems presented each episode remain intriguing, I feel this season is leaning a bit more into soap opera rather than medical drama.

 

 

Best Medicine  Ep2 S2  Breakin’ In Is Hard To Do

There are several storylines this week.  The town pharmacy, Doc’s Office and the Salty Breeze all have thefts, with puzzling items being stolen.  Martin tries to put together what injury might be treated given what has disappeared.

A Pizza Food Truck sets up shop just at the edge of the Salty Breeze parking lot causing chaos.

Townies have Martin rush to the Salty Breeze to help with an incident, only to find a bloody mess that momentarily brings out his blood phobia.   It’s a prank that’s supposed to be hilarious, but it makes Martin question why he is staying in Port Wenn at all.   His friend Eden seizes upon this and encourages him to come back to Boston.

 

Lanterns Finale

It’s a slow episode, oddly.  There’s a bit of tidying up leaving Sinestro behind on the portal world.

John is able to figure out who killed Hal.  Hal was right, it was Kerry, who wanted to protect her son Noah.

Noah is an interesting conundrum.  He wants his current life of family and football, but can also see a path for himself to the halls of power where he could conquer everything and everyone.  

Sinestro made a lantern for Noah who kidnapped him from OA and trapped him on Anton’s world.  Noah wanted revenge for his grandmother’s death, and wanted to be able to kill Guardians if he needed to.

John ends up with the Lanternmade by Sinestro and Hal’s ring.  Once he charges the ring, Halogram, who has been a much better companion than real Hal, will be gone forever.  He’s reluctant to lose him.

Calling in Guy Gardner, John tells him to deliver a message to the Guardians.  John is Earth’s Guardian now and Gardner has the rest of the sector.  Guy’s not happy!  He promises an army of Lanterns coming to confront John (that is, in fact, what should happen).   John is confident he will get his wish.  Did John do this so he could protect his family, Kerry and Noah, and keep Sinestro imprisoned?  Why else?  It doesn’t seem to me to be an appropriate super hero way, using his power to serve his own needs. 

 

Great British Baking Show   Biscuit Week

The first challenge was “American Style Cookies”, though the cookies were much more elaborate than the typical cookie.

Teeny Frosted Iced Gems were the Technical Challenge.

Mosaics created from biscuits were the show stoppers.  The overall Star Baker was Tom, who did not finish his sloppy looking show stopper.  Some weeks the judges just don’t get it right.  Going home was the delightfully daffy Danni.  Danni is a vegan, and didn’t taste her own creations as she made them, so she was somewhat doomed.

The show continues to be a balm.

 

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles An October Word Find

 Feel the crisp air!   See the pumpkins go out on display!  Visit that corn maze!  Happy October.

 

 

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles An Answer Key for the 9/26/26 Fallen Phrase

 I hope you enjoyed the phrase! It's the first line from Nobody's Quest, the first book in a new series by Alyssa Day.

 

 

 

Five Things Friday October 2, 2026

 Welcome. October! I love fall for its cooler temps, and Halloween everything!  I have the usual mix of science fiction and crafty things this week.  There’s another set of fine fall things, it’s time to get crafty and watch lots of TV, and bake!

Book Notes October 1, 2026

 

Memes

We’ve established that I don’t like math.  How about book math, though? Sometimes I actually do go and buy all the books in a series so I can read straight through uninterrupted.  All one story, really, so yes, it all just one big wonderful book. Right?

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Adaptations

 

Liz Moore's award winning novel God of the Woods will be presented by Netflix, and is currently filming.  It stars Maya Hawke as an investigator in the disappearance of a teen.  I had mixed feelings about the novel myself, but I'll watch the adaptation for certain.

https://deadline.com/feature/the-god-of-the-woods-adaptation-tv-show-news-updates-1236939104/ 

Matt Haig's novel The Midnight Library will be a theatrical film release starring Florence Pugh.  I've got the book, I think, and should have read it by the time it comes to a streaming service :) 

 https://variety.com/2026/film/global/florence-pugh-the-midnight-library-adaptation-studiocanal-1236744076/

Book Reviews

 

Death’s Daughter by S A Barnes   (Children of the Old Ones #1)

 

 Jocasta is technically Death’s Daughter because Death intervened to save her as a baby, taking her father’s life instead.   He’s visited over the years, mostly when she was small, and he has tried to teach her how to use the powers she has.  How to feed on humans.  How to kill whenever it would accomplish some goal or whim.

Now in college, Jocasta tries to live as a regular human.  She only feeds from bits of worry, or emotional upheaval so common in a college town.  Not enough to ever harm anyone.    Her world is interrupted by the arrival in town of Devon, whom Jo immediately knows is a child of the Old Ones.  Likely Lust, as every single person in the bar she frequents is drawn to this man.

He challenges her, and proposes they become allies.  There’s been an “announcement” in the world of the Old Ones.  Death has named Jocasta as his “successor”.   She had no clue, and certainly hasn’t heard from Death himself.    Now the challengers will be appearing to try to unseat her from a role she doesn’t want.   How can she defend herself and the town she loves, the people she loves from such an onslaught?

I wasn't sure when I read it if there would be more, but writing this, I see its "Children of the Old Ones #1).   This is great. Love the world and characters. 

 

Nobody’s Quest by Alyssa Day

 

Soli is an indentured servant for life who cleans the King’s Library.   She has a “Greymind” and a tattoo that marks her as one who can lose their self for days or weeks, trapped in her mind.  She’s useless to anyone but the sisters who keep the Library.   She owns nothing.  She’s beaten for the smallest infractions.  She has no life at all outside of the books she secretly reads.   Fiction, non-fiction, she loves everything and knows many obscure things that have kept her going.  She wishes she could have the adventures of her heroine Captain Wavedancer, but that will never happen.

Until one day the King’s guards come and tear her from her work and her less than a life to meet the king.   Her lack of personhood, her being an utter Nobody, make her perfect, the king and his advisors hope, to take on a quest to free the goddess Artemisan.  It’s a task nobody can complete.  And Soli is less than nobody, if her life is any indicator.

Keepjng Captain Wavedancers words in her heart, Soli bravely takes on the quest to find the keys to release the goddess.

First in a new trilogy, Soli is a fine, humble, brave adventurer after all.

 

The Unknown by  Riley Sager

 

Actress Marin Keane, with no resume whatsoever, is chosen for the starring role in a new film by director Ronan Peters.  It’s the opportunity of a lifetime.   Marin is grateful, but also finds it odd that the cast and crew will be spending a week on an island in Vermont. 

The movie is about a group of spiritualists who disappeared from the island in 1926.  Living in the manner of those women for a week, taking on their roles, trying to become them as research for the film turns out to be more intense than anyone expected.  Is there some presence here that also seemed to be on the island in 1926?  They’ve got the diary of one of the women, but it doesn’t reveal what happened, nor can the current day group be assured that they won’t meet the same fate as the women in the past.

 

A Box Full of Murders: Death At The Museum by Janice Hallett

 

This the second middle grade novel by Hallett featuring Luke and Ava, siblings who try to solve mysteries from an old box in the dad’s attic.  Since their parents divorce, Luke lives with his dad and Ava with her mom.

Luke shares notes, photos, letters, news articles and diary entries with Ava little by little as he is able.  

This time around, it’s 1983 and a class from Brewford Middle School will be visiting the Natural History Museum in London.   Some of the students are recognized by Luke and Ava from their previous case.  They can’t help wondering how their parents, especially their father, have these boxes of murder mysteries in the attic.

They’re ready to dive in, though!   There are mini-dinosaurs, people who seem to be explorers from the past lost in the museum, displays that are getting rearranged by no one, and there’s a dead body.   A student and teacher stuck on top of a whale exhibit.   People trapped in abandoned rooms.  Can Luke and Ava figure this one out?