Five Things Friday October 16, 2026

 Late? Me? Your clock must be off :)

Here we are with a few odd things, cute things. I watched a lot of low budget science fiction in my youth but never saw The Slime People. Does the Slime guy resemble a poo emoji or what?  Have a great weekend!

Book Notes October 15, 2026

 

Welcome to bookshelf moving week on the blog.  We adopted a wonderful little cat! I don’t mind her exploring at all, but right by my two level stairs is a tiny ledge and a jump to a cabinet with no good way down.

I’ve emptied it out and moved two bookcases out of the way so it can sit here.

The book cases are now across the room.

I have more books than shelf space and this has been a problem for awhile. 

Books I’ve read but can’t shelve.

Books I haven’t read with no spot either.

I’m finally bringing up two cubby type shelves from downstairs which should hold all of the loose books until I buy more.

One under a window so the kitten can safely look out. One in the dangerous top of the stairs spot so the kitten can hop up but the shelf will provide a lower level for getting safely up and down.

We need my son to come on the weekend to move that heavy glass cabinet without tragedy.

Wish us luck!

DOA On TV Best Medicine, Doc, Elspeth, Great British Baking Show, Sheriff Country

 

 

Sorry to be late!  I've been rearranging furniture all day.  I'm not as young as I used to be!  Ack!

 

Best Medicine Crate Expectations

In a packed episode, the town holds their annual crate race, wherein the contestants try to run across a series of floating crates.  There are rivalries involved in this race going back to Martin’s childhood.

Karaoke night brings out Mark, Louisa, with tepid tunes.  In steps Eden, feeling competitive with an old show tune song and dance that has everyone cringing, and one man faints, taken with a mysterious condition.

Mark and Louisa carpool to a nearby town to meet their dates, found online. Neither date goes well, but the pair’s friendship is solid.

Martin requires contestants to have a physical and three men test as positively pregnant.  None will take the tests seriously.

 

Doc  I know What I Want

The title refers mostly to a patient who is in her 70s and is ready to swing.  She’s gotten an STD from her lover, but isn’t daunted.  Her husband is left in the lurch. 

Amy has decided after a variety of flashbacks that she wants to choose a life with Jake.  He has to tell her he’s back with his ex-wife.  What she wants isn’t happening for her.

The interesting medical case of the week is a young man who has been addicted for a decade, and who can’t find any way to kick the habit.  He feels as if he’s made progress, but he’s been taking a heath supplement that functions like the drugs he’s been on so he’s on death’s door because they can’t figure out what is causing his symptoms, it’s touch and go.

Sonja, spoiler alert, takes a pregnancy test and it’s positive.

 

Elspeth   Crazy In Love

I flagged watching the show last season, but the opening episode of season four was good.  A rather mesmerizing popular marriage guru kills her longtime lover when he inconveniently plans to spend more time in New York.  She’s obsessed with him (though he’s a real scrounge) and wouldn’t be able to stay away from him. 

The woman does a clever job of setting up his death to look like one of her other patients (?) did it, but Elspeth is soon on her trail. 

 

Great British Baking Show   Audience Choice Week

The audience has sent suggestions for the show.  There’s the signature where you can have a family member helping you.  They made cheese cakes. 

The Technical gave everyone a box of ingredients and they were to make whatever they wanted.  It’s not as good as the challenge of everyone making the same thing with little information about the recipe.

The showstopper was something wearable.  These were pretty great, the winner being a handbag.

 

Sheriff Country 

Sheriff Country returned, picking up where it left off with Mickey's dead mother head of an operation to take down a local cartel.   Mickey, Wes, and Skye want nothing to do with her till  they see the cost to a friend and his family.   

We see in the past how Eva (then known as Maria) was an agent sent to take down Wes, but she fell in love with him and had Mickey instead.  When her supervisors catch up with her, she's made to leave the States for ten years, and to agree to be listed as dead.

In a fun bit Morena Baccarin's real life husband Ben McKenzie plays the sheriff of a neighboring town who picks her up totally drunk at the episode's beginning.  They've been friends for years.  It looks he will be in more episodes.  I loved the pair together in Gotham.

 

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles A Secret Code Puzzle

 It's Secret Code Puzzle week.  You're given the code to decipher the first line of a book at the bottom of the puzzle page.  There's just a bit of pattern matching involved.  Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

Librariandoa's Saturday Puzzles An Answer Key for the 10/3/26 October Word Find

 Here's the answer key in case you just couldn't find that one word :)

 

 

Five Things Friday October 9, 2026

I’m favoring cats this week.  If only it were Caturday!

 

Book Notes October 8, 2026

 

Hi! I did’nt get any reviews written this week though my books read pile keeps getting bigger.  Just a couple of book memes for you, and promos for new and upcoming books I’m interested in.  Have a good week!

Memes

New and Upcoming Books

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.