Jennifer’s Comments (group member since Dec 03, 2021)

Jennifer’s comments from the On The Same Page group.

I'm on the hunt for this one too, Bonnie.

The winner of the March 2024 "Moderator Recommends" poll is:

Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect
Benjamin Stevenson


When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. Obviously, that didn’t pan out.

The program is a who’s who of crime writing royalty:

the debut writer (me!)

the forensic science writer

the blockbuster writer

the legal thriller writer

the literary writer

the psychological suspense writer

But when one of us is murdered, the remaining authors quickly turn into five detectives. Together, we should know how to solve a crime.

Of course, we should also know how to commit one.

How can you find a killer when all the suspects know how to get away with murder?

And it's Juliet Blackwell, which is a win all by itself~

You are and welcome!

If the time isn't right, the time isn't right, Pam. :)

Agreed, Bonnie!

Dee wrote: "Planning on: "

OOOH! OOH! OOOH! Yes!

. I was a teenager in Merritt Island, Florida, which sits between Cocoa Beach/Cape Canaveral and Cocoa proper, and I used to watch early shuttle launches from our front yard. So I'll read this.

Me too, Bonnie, and Miss Fortune is a definite fave. I'm behind by two books in that series at the moment and I have absolutely no idea how I've let that happen.

Good luck, Bonnie!

This book has been picked for me about 4 times in other challenges. Time to shove it along:


And as long as I'm literarily in Louisiana anyway:

Ditto re picked for me more than once:

Hi, everyone! This is the thread for the "Commit to one book monthly" challenge. In this thread, post one book you intend to read in March, so everyone else can see your pick. When you finish reading it, we'd love for you to come back and post your opinion. I expect everyone's TBRs to suffer because of this monthly reading challenge, but I'm prepared to make that sacrifice. Are you? :-D

Ugh! I've still only read two of my February PIFM picks, and two of the color picks, and here we are posting March!

In for five, please!
PIFM

Hi, everyone!

For anyone unfamiliar, this is a monthly challenge where you post a link to a shelf you created. It can be named "PIFM" or "Pick It For Me" etc, if you want one dedicated only to this challenge, or you can use an existing shelf you already have, as long as it has 100 or fewer books on it. The link must be to the specific shelf, or you will not be partnered.. Indicate how many books you would like to have picked for you from that shelf for the month in question. There is no lower limit as to how many books you can have on your shelf, but, of course, they should be books you are interested in reading during the next month and have ready access to.

On or about the 25th of each month, I will post who picks for whom. In order to accommodate an uneven number of participants, pairs will not be reciprocal -- in other words, it won't be Joanne picking for Jennifer and Jennifer picking for Joanne. It may be Joanne picks for Jennifer, Jennifer picks for Herman, and Herman picks for Suzanne, and someone else entirely picks for Joanne.

IF anyone has not been "picked for" by the 30th, I will pick for them if the designated picker can't be contacted by PM.

When you are assigned someone to pick for, note the number of books in parentheses after that person's name in the pick list, go to the link for their shelf, and pick that number of books for them. Post the books in a new message here. That person has the entire following month to read his/her picks. Someone will be picking for you the same way. We all like to see what people think about their picks, so we hope you will keep us posted in this thread!

Example: "In for five, please!
PIFM"

The HTML template for linking your shelf can be found HERE and if you have trouble, PM me and I will help you.

Your designated shelf must be set so that others can see it. To set up a PIFM shelf for those who would like to, go to the "MY BOOKS" link in the GOODREADS toolbar, scroll down below your shelves on the left until you see the "add shelf" button, and click that. Name it PIFM or Pick It For Me. Add books to it, and post the link to it in this challenge as described above. Again, if you need help, please don't hesitate to PM me!

If you are in for March, post your shelf and the number of picks you'd like to have below. See you on picking day!

March pairs:

Joy picks 1 for Sonsoles
Denise picks 5 for Jennifer
Jackie picks 3 for Joy
Sonsoles picks 3 for Lance
Lance picks 1 for Jackie
Jennifer picks 1 for Denise

The colors for the March 2024 Color Challenge are goldenrod and purple. Looking forward to seeing your picks!

Hi!

It's time to nominate non-fiction books for our second quarter 2024 NF group read. The nominations thread will be open through the 29th.

On March 1st, I'll put up a poll. The winner will be announced on March 15, which should give everyone who is interested some time to get the book if they are interested in starting it on April 1st.

Let the nominations begin!

Jiminy, we're halfway through the month and I haven't finished any of mine yet! ARGH!

Glad it was a good read, Joy!

Glad to hear that, Carolien!

Agreed completely re Carrie and the abrupt ending, Denise. Plus the world of professional sports for children/teenagers was completely foreign to me so it was interesting from that standpoint as well.

I went and snapped that up. I've read a couple of Paris' novels and liked them.