So very, VERY NOT my “cuppa tea,” but. . . Holly Bell (pen name) has penned a series of “cozy mysteries” with a “paranormal” bent that is just. . . charming. *heh* I would so very much like to see the Amanda Cadabra books turned into a well-done TV series (perhaps the producers of The Vicar of Dibley or folks with a similar set of sensibilities and talents could do the series justice). Why these stories appeal to me might best be described by saying they very nearly as charmingly frivolous and inconsequential as Wodehouse’s typical stories: just fun, and little else.
IMO, the world needs more wholesome fun.
Wholesome fun would be good instead of the foul offerings the ”entertainment” industry spews out at us. What is called entertainment these days is often a thinly disguised effort to tear down anything good in society.
Indeed, Perri. I have found myself drawn to simpler, more wholesome fare as time goes by. Can’t find much of that, nowadays, but it is there. Oh, I read (and watch) other things–mostly non-fiction, but some wholesome fun with a well-told story ain’t a bad thing at all, at all.
Another writer that surprised me, since her books are also waaaayyy outside any genre I might normally elect to read, is Shelley Adina. WEll-told stories with good guys (and gals) against bad guys (mostly, but some gals), winning the day. Fun stuff set in a 19th Century steampunk setting. I ike it when a story has well-defined villains and heroes (and when the heroes are actually admirable). Oh, so different to the Suckitudinous Fiction Holly Lisle has railed against.