Ann’s Comments (group member since Dec 20, 2013)

Ann’s comments from the CPL's Book a Week Challenge group.

I'm currently reading A Lady's Guide to Gossip and Murder by Dianne Freeman. I'm going on vacation and have loaded up on Hoopla checkouts for the trip: A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Murder by Dianne Freeman, Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie, and Murder at Archly Manor by Sara Rossett.
I might also check out Libby and see what new titles they have.

I've read 70 books so far, aided in no small part from reading Agatha Christie's Poirot books in order on Hoopla. Despite being limited to 5 checkouts a month, I've managed to read 16 Poirot and 2 Miss Marple books.

I've found an interesting trope (genre) and several series to read that are quite fun. Historical mystery/romance. They all have similar titles, but different stories: A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem, A Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy, and A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder (I'm currently reading the 2nd book in this series).

I'm also conducting a survey of romances involving Dukes (starting with the Bridgertons).

So far this month, I've read two Poirot mysteries (Murder in Mesopotamia and Cards on the Table), Murder on Wall Street by Victoria Thompson, reread The Hobbit for the Online book club, and read Anne of Green Gables for the first time (which also required tissues at the end).

I am currently reading Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie (Hoopla), The Quiet GIrl by S.F. Kosa (Overdrive), and I've got a stack of library books to choose from.

I'm currently reading The Garden Plot by Marty Wingate. Not sure what to read next, I should read down the stack of library books in my living room.

I love to reread books. Growing up I didn't visit the library that often, so was limited to the books we had at home to read. I reread Lord of the Ring more often than The Hobbit or the histories. I've reread Sense & Sensibility and Jane Eyre several times. I will also reread mysteries when a new book comes out in the series (that's why I'm rereading Susan Elia MacNeal's Maggie Hope series). Or I will reread books in a series if I haven't read many of them, such a Agatha Christie's Poirot books. Or books by friends to pull myself out of a reading slump. Or because I like the cover art. or.....

I finished Lord Edgware Dies, next up is Murder in Three Acts (& then Murder on the Orient Express). I am also rereading Susan Elia MacNeal's Maggie Hope series- I just finished The Queen's Accomplish and have started The Paris Spy. I love this series.
This weekend, I will also start reading Boyfriend Material for the online bookclub. And there are soooo many new books out to tempt me.

I've recently started reading Agatha Christie's Lord Edgware Dies (#9 in the series). I also want to read The Duke and I (the first Bridgerton novel) as well as A Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee (2nd in the series- I think you would like it, Joanna). Then I'll start on Boyfriend Material.

I'm not a big note taker, not even when I was in school. I think I will have to start, especially any books I write reviews for. I used to be better about remembering plot points (and faster about finding them again in the books), but between ebooks that I buy and ebooks that I check out from the library- looking back is not always an option.

I'm currently reading His Majesty's Hope by Susan Elia MacNeal (awesome series!). After that is Boyfriend Material.

I've finished both Persuasion and Murder at the Vicarage. I've been working on my reading more of Agatha Christie, I might alternate between Poirot and Marple. I also read Farm to Trouble (not much farming involved as much as how to not lose the family farm), and The Summer of Impossibilities. I've got to read down my to be read stacks as well as the books I've checked out from the library (including Hoopla and Overdrive). Overdrive has Mr. Churchill's Secretary and I'm currently rereading that.

Book Exchange in Williamsburg was a really good bookstore, which unfortunately has closed. Zeno's is good for science fiction and fantasy (not sure about their mystery collection). We should go on a book store field trip, so we can tell people all about them (should we get reference questions). :)

I don't have any outside places to read close by, and those that I might go to would involve bringing too many things to make it comfy while I read that it is easier to just read at home.

I finished The Year of Less (very interesting- some of what she suggests I'm already doing- others I might try later on).

I was trying to check out one of the recommended books on gaslighting, and found The Gaslighting of the Millenial Generation. Interesting book, I definitely relate more to Millenials than to Baby Boomers (ironic, considering all 3 of my siblings are Boomers). A lot of what she said gave me hope for the future.

I also finished a cozy mystery (Shucked Apart) and a graphic novel (The Tea Dragon Society). I am currently reading Persuasion and reading The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

Next up is (maybe) Murder at the Vicarage, The Big Four, Enjoy the View by Sarah Morganthaler (last book in trilogy?), or one of the books I've been waiting for. Not sure.

I'm (re)reading City of Girls, The Year of Less, and The Duke Heist. Next up is probably something by Agatha Chistie.

1. Hi! I'm Ann. I'm a Librarian, writer, poet, and book hoarder.
2. Favorite authors: J.R.R. Tolkien, Laurie R. King, Susan Elia MacNeal, Donna Andrews, J.D. Robb (aka Nora Roberts)...
3. Favorite Books: The Lord of the Rings, Sense & Sensability, The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Mr. Churchill's Secretary...
4. Favorite Genre: Fantasy, Historical, Historical Mystery, Mystery...
5. Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon
6. I'm currently reading The City of Girls, The Year of Less, and The Duke Heist by Erica Ridley.
7. In her acknowledgements to City of Girls, Elizabeth Gilbert thanks the New York Public Library librarian who gave her access to Katherine Cornell. Turns out I'm related to Katherine Cornell through my mom's dad. My grandmother even told me about her once.

I am currently reading Notorious RBG alternating with Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert. Next up is Kim Reaper, vol. 2 and City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert.
I come not to praise Caesar, but to bury him (or to hit him in the face with the pie I didn't get yesterday).
Julius Caesar was one of his plays that I read more than once for school (I just can't tell you which school or which class).

I am currently reading two books on Hoopla: Gender and Sexuality in Ireland, and Notorious RBG (which keeps showing me a white screen- not sure why). Next up is either City of Girls or Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert. And then the growing mountain of library books.

My new sectional sofa is my favorite reading spot. I miss having an outdoor reading spot. :)

I've started reading Poirot Investigates, and I'm also reading The Evolution of Love. Next up is probably going to be The City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert. Maybe.

I finished Their Eyes Were Watching God, and then read Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie (not as about golf as I went in thinking it might be), and The Tourist Attraction and Mistletoe and Mr. Right by Sarah Morgenthaler (very funny books). I'm currently reading The Evolution of Love by Lucy Jane Bledsoe.
Next up is either Poirot Investigates, or one of my library checkouts: The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy, The Inheritance Games, Under the Rainbow, Measure What Matters, and The Practice: Shipping Creative Work (in no particular order).

cool. thanks, I'll give it a try. :)

I'm also reading slower then I usually do. I just finished reading Murder is a Must by Marty Wingate, which is the 5th book I've read so far this year.
Next up is Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston for the online book club. I also want to work through the pile of library books I've checked out- half cozy mysteries and half in honor of world social justice day. Plus the pile of books from B&N that keeps growing on my new book shelf (yup, I got one),