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Holiday Cheer!

 

Terry here:The year-end book review is one of my favorite blog posts. I love to read what others recommend. And I enjoy going back over the books I’ve read during the year and remembering why I either loved them or not so much. Occasionally because I was on a conference panel or was given a book as a gift, I discovered writers I might never have otherwise read, and that can be so rewarding! 
 Be prepared. I read a LOT of books this year, and this is a long list. I tried to pare it down, but ev...

My Book Selection for 2023!

Happy Holidays, everyone!

I'll reiterate what Josh and other Minds have said -- book-giving is a wonderful thing, no matter the time of year. I've done lots of reading since last holiday season and have a few recommendations, although on my own book-giving list, I attempt to match reader to their own preferences. Not everyone loves crime fiction as much as we do!

The book that made the most impact on me is Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. A family comes together on the family cherry farm to weather the p...

5 Books Everyone Should Read, by Josh Stallings

Regardless of your holiday traditions - beliefs - or complete lack thereof, there is NEVER a bad time to gift someone with a book. Here are five books that moved me deeply over the last year. We each fall in love with books for particular and personal reasons. A book I love today, I may not in years to come. We all bring where we are at that very moment to our opinions of books. Any “best of” list is merely a snap-shot of where I’m at right this moment.

Margret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin (2000...

The best of the already pretty great, by Catriona

Don't know about you, but I love a listicle. Top five mistakes people make when roasting a turkey? I'm clicking. Five worst Oscars outfits of all time? Count me in. And I've recently compiled lists of my five favourite Christmas crime novels for CrimeReads and my five favourite Christmas rom-coms for Stiletto Gang. (Did I mention that I've got a Christmas-set book out this week?)

Details and buy links are here

But could I list my books of the year? Maybe, with a lot of time and lot of angst. But I...

A final, farewell post, and some final shout outs... by Cathy Ace

Hello folks, I’ve been posting my bloggy thoughts here,every other Wednesday, for the better part of ten years, and it’s time for meto pass the ball to…well, you’ll find out soon.

It’s been an honour and a pleasure to share this particularpart of the blogiverse with my fellow Minds – every single one of them overthat period. It’s also been my delight to interact with those of you who havecommented on my posts either here or on the Minds’ Facebook page.

It's been quite a decade: when I was w...

Smile Like The Grinch by Gabriel Valjan

 

Gift ideas for booklovers.

 

It’s that special time of year, when we give gifts tofriends and family. The holidays can be stressful, and finding a meaningfulgift takes thought and time. I remember the yellow 9-volume boxed set of LauraIngalls Wilder’s The Little House on thePrairie series I received one Christmas, and Roger Jean Segalat’s cool as chromehardcover How Things Work, anotherYule season.

 

We Minds have spent a calendar year talking about books, ourown ...

We've Always Got Books

 Books for givers and readers 

-from Susan

 

Every year, we Minds offer our personally curated lists of books we especially recommend and this year’s no different. I want to start by pointing readers to the new books by my colleagues here. Hard-boiled, police procedurals, cozies, amateur sleuths of all kinds, international settings, humor…You could fill a lot of stockings just with these wonderful books! I’m going to choose a few outside of our group’s creative work, even out of 2023 new releases, ...

Top of the TBR Pile

It’s the time of year when family commitments begin to ramp up, AND a huge number of books are published, just in time for the gift-giving season. How will this affect your reading? What’s on your To Be Read pile at the moment?

 

 

Good morning!

 

Hard to believe we’re already into December. All my wonderful plans for 2023, all the great tasks I’d hoped to accomplish, all the books I’d hoped to write, pretty much all lie discarded at the side of the road, ditched, displaced by all the mundane things ...

"Jim! Jim! What happened to your beautiful hair?" by Catriona

It’s the time of year when family commitments begin to ramp up, AND a huge number of books are published, just in time for the gift-giving season. How will this affect your reading? What’s on your To Be Read pile at the moment?

It's Catriona here, stepping in with my below-average hair today because I'm on a blog tour for a new book, coming out next Tuesday. It's a Last Ditch Motel Christmas, in which Lexy and the gang hop (geddit?) over to Scotland for the holidays, and encounter many potty-...

That time of year

It’s the time of year when family commitments begin to ramp up, AND a huge number of books are published, just in time for the gift-giving season. How will this affect your reading? What’s on your To Be Read pile at the moment?

by Dietrich

This time of year doesn’t affect how much I read, but there certainly will be new releases to add to the list. At the moment I’m enjoying Lewis Black’s I’m Dreaming of a Black Christmas. It won’t likely put anyone into a festive mood per se, but it’s certain...