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I started reading a cozy mystery today: The Cornish Honeymoon Murder by Fiona Leitch. It's the 10th book in the Nosey Parker Mystery series.

I'm currently rereading my way through the Ice series by Anne Stuart. These are romantic suspense. I like all the action that goes along with the romance. I'm currently on Ice Blue.

I'm re-reading Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade It was one of my favorite books as a teenager, and for some reason I haven't read it since.

I feel like I'm reading the most trendy books, but I'm loving them. I'm listening to "The Correspondent" and reading "Remarkably Bright Creatures. "

Belles wrote: "I'm currently rereading my way through the Ice series by Anne Stuart. These are romantic suspense. I like all the action that goes along with the romance. I'm currently on Ice Blue."

This sounds like a great series, Belles. I've added it to Mount TBR.

ꕥ Ange_Lives_To_Read ꕥ wrote: "I'm re-reading Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade It was one of my favorite books as a teenager, and for some reason I haven't read it since."

Fond memories....Great reading..

Val : The Midwest Book Mom wrote: "I feel like I'm reading the most trendy books, but I'm loving them. I'm listening to "The Correspondent" and reading "Remarkably Bright Creatures. ""

I've read some mixed reviews on "The Correspondent" but it has a high rating on GR. I'm glad you're enjoying it.

I'm reading Deep Listening, by Emily Kasriel (a very interesting essay), and Isn't it Bromantic, by Lyssa Kay Adams, that is very funny.

Val : The Midwest Book Mom wrote: "I feel like I'm reading the most trendy books, but I'm loving them. I'm listening to "The Correspondent" and reading "Remarkably Bright Creatures. ""

I loved Remarkably Bright Creatures! 5 stars for me

PamG wrote: "ꕥ Ange_Lives_To_Read ꕥ wrote: "I'm re-reading Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade It was one of my favorite books as a teenager, and for some reason I haven't read it since."

Fond me..."
Auntie Mame is so great! I did same as you, and enjoyed it

I am reading two arcs, both publishing on 5/12:
The Anniversary by Alex Finlay and
The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

Barb and I are reading Delryan's Draw by one of her favorite Western writers (he's new to me), Terrell L. Bowers. We'll probably finish it next weekend, since we'll be going on a road trip (I read to her in the car). By myself, I'm reading a movie novelization, Cutthroat Island by John Gregory Betancourt, who's also a new-to-me author.

Val, I loved The Correspondent.Hope you do, too.

I’m currently reading an ARC of Life Out of Order, a sequel to The Time Traveler's Wife. It’s not publishing until October , but I couldn’t wait.

Bam, Mansfield's The Collected Stories is on my to-read shelf (she died in 1923, so her stories are mostly in the public domain, and have been collected by more than one publisher). I've really liked a few of her stories that I've read in textbooks or anthologies; so I'll be very interested in your take on the whole corpus!

There's so many great-sounding books and more new-to-me authors.

I'm reading two very different books: the first is an essay, very interesting

Deep Listening: Transform Your Relationships with Family, Friends, and Foes

And then something that can make me laugh:
Isn't It Bromantic?

Alessandra wrote: "I'm reading two very different books..."

"Isn't It Bromantic?" sounds like a fun read.

PamG wrote: "Alessandra wrote: "I'm reading two very different books..."

"Isn't It Bromantic?" sounds like a fun read."

it's the fourth book, better begin with the first. They are very fun read

Alessandra wrote: "it's the fourth book, better begin with the first. They are very fun read"

Thanks!

I'm starting Vanished by Kendra Elliot.

Romantic Suspense / Crime thriller
book 1 in the Callahan and McLane series

Just started Do You Remember? Freida McFadden thriller. Love her books!

Cheryl wrote: "Just started Do You Remember? Freida McFadden thriller. Love her books!"

I believe I've only read one of her books, but thought it was good. (Ward D) I have 2 more on my kindle that I haven't gotten to read yet.

Today I'm starting Helm by Sarah Hall for our mother-daughters book club pick for May. A work of historical fiction about a legendary wind.

Bam cooks the books wrote: "Today I'm starting Helm by Sarah Hall for our mother-daughters book club pick for May. A work of historical fiction about a legendary wind."

That's got an interesting premise.

I've started Storm Tide by Paul Doiron. I enjoy books that take place in remote areas and Doiron always delivers.

PamG wrote: "I've started Storm Tide by Paul Doiron. I enjoy books that take place in remote areas and Doiron always delivers.
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Have that one to read too!

Bam cooks the books wrote: "Have that one to read too!..."

I'll be interested in seeing what you think of it.

Later today, I'll be getting started on The Other Woman: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure by Richard T. Ryan.

This is a Sherlock Holmes story.

Tonight I will be finishing
Cleopatra
by Saara El-Arifi

It's been so exciting to read a book written in the 1st person POV.

Listening to the pharaoh and God from her side of things!

Saara El-Arifi did her masters in African American studies specializing in the myth of Cleopatra and her effect on black women!!!

I always keep a thriller of some sorts going.

Right now I am reading Thirteen
Book 4 of 9 of
Steve Cavanah's
Eddie Flynn Series

Eddie is a con artist turned defense attorney. It's too much fun to see how Eddie uses some of his old tools in the courtroom.

I've already read Fifty Fifty and The Defense. Next I will read Book 1 The Plea.

I have found that I haven't needed to read them in order. When I read Fifty Fifty I didn't realize it was part of a series.

I also read his delicious psychological thriller Kill For Me Kill For You which had a whole different feel than his Eddie Flynn books.

I am also reading and moderating a months long online discussion in another group here on GR...
The Lonliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

I chose to read this book originally as it was short listed for The Booker Prize. Secondly, it was also on Barrack Obama's Reading List for 2025. Each year since he started publishing his list I have read 2 or 3 of the books from his list. I have found it a great source for some very interesting and compelling reads.

My next historical fiction read will be Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Here novel Happy Land 🌼 is a book I just can't quit talking about.

First I read it drawn in by its beautiful cover art and then of course the title.

It's based on a real community in the Carolina Appalacians called The Kingdom of Happy Land. It follows a group of freed slaves looking to escape ongoing oppression. In January I moderated a month-long discussion on GR.

Now someone in my virtual book club 📚 choose it for our June read. And yes!!! I can't wait to discuss it in real time with my book friends!

So yes I usually have:

📔a thriller/police procedural/dark mystery 🫆 going

📔 A historical fiction novel

📔 And last a contemporary fiction or literary fiction going at all times

I mix it up with audiobook 🎧
physical book 📖
Ebook... Kindle format 📓

Meant to spell god with a small g when talking about Cleopatra

Cheryl wrote: "My next historical fiction read will be Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Cheryl, Take My Hand is an excellent novel, stunning, informative and sad.

Cheryl wrote: "Right now I am reading Thirteen
Book 4 of 9 of
Steve Cavanah's
Eddie Flynn Series ..."

I only found this series last year and have read 2 or 3 of them. I want to go back and read the rest. It's a great series.

Today I'm starting
The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley for my library's afternoon book club. We meet the third Monday of the month.

Bam cooks the books wrote: "Today I'm starting
The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley for my library's afternoon book club. We meet the third Monday of the..."

That one sounds good.

I'm starting to read Hard Shadows by J.B. Turner. This is the 16th book in the Jon Reznick series. This is a political / action thriller series.

I am 70% in an audiobook called "A Fever in the Heartland. " It's a jaw-dropping Non-Fiction book based on the rise and fall of the KKK in the 1920s.

Having finished Delryan's Draw (review to come this weekend), Barb and I have now started on the latest stand-alone suspense novel by my Goodreads friend Heather Day Gilbert, Queen Bee, set in her native West Virginia like most of her mystery fiction. At 110 pages, this is really a novella-length work, and I expect it to be another quick read.

Just starting a Netgally Arc The Bureau of Unknown Fates . Looks like it will be a heavy one.

I'm also starting a NG arc of An Ordinary Sort of Evil, 5th in a time travel mystery series by Kelley Armstrong, publishing tomorrow!

What a great variety of books we're reading! The only one that I've read is An Ordinary Sort of Evil, I enjoy that series.

I have The Bureau of Unknown Fates downloaded to my kindle, but haven't gotten to it yet.

I'm starting on Bridged by Kendra Elliot. This is a romantic suspense / crime thriller novel and the 2nd book in the Callahan and McLane series.

Ever since I spotted it on the shelf at the library where I work, when I joined the staff in 1992, I've had my eye on the novel East River (1947), by the 20th-century American Jewish author Sholem Asch. Since the next several weeks should afford me the opportunity to work in a fairly substantial novel (it's 541 pages long, in this printing), I've decided that now's the time for this one, so I've just started on it.

Werner wrote: "Ever since I spotted it on the shelf at the library where I work, when I joined the staff in 1992, I've had my eye on the novel East River (1947), by the..."

Looks like one I’d like, Werner . I’m adding it to my list. Not sure when I’ll get to it. I read a couple of long ones recently , so not sure if I’m ready for another right now. Thanks . I was not familiar with the author .

Always glad to steer other readers to a book they might like, Angela! Whenever you read it, I hope you enjoy it.

Werner wrote: "Always glad to steer other readers to a book they might like, Angela! Whenever you read it, I hope you enjoy it."

It does sound good.

Do not know why it took me so long to read this novel...
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

25% in and it's I am really enjoying it!