C. (Comment, never msg).’s Comments (group member since Jan 30, 2014)

C. (Comment, never msg).’s comments from the Gentle SPECTRUMS group.

STRUCTURES
"The Pillars Of The Earth" Ken Follett (Canadian Bookworm)
"No Safe House" Linwood Barclay (Canadian Bookworm)
"Sand Castle" Frederik Peeters (Canadian Bookworm)
"Up On The Roof" P.K. Page (Canadian Bookworm)
"The Dead In Their Vaulted Arches" Alan Bradley (Canadian Bookworm)

NATIONS
"Ghana Must Go" Taiye Selasi (Canadian Bookworm)
"The Cairo Affair" Olen Steinhauer (Canadian Bookworm)
"Saigon" Anthony Grey (Canadian Bookworm)
"Letters From Skye" Jessica Brockmole (Canadian Bookworm)
"The Wives Of Los Alamos" Tarashea Nesbit (Canadian Bookworm)

PLANTS
"In The Orchard, The Swallows" Peter Hobbs (Canadian Bookworm)
"Morning Glory" Sarah Jio (Canadian Bookworm)
"The Frangipani Hotel" Violet Kupersmith (Canadian Bookworm)
"The Tulip Eaters" Antoinette Van Heugten (Canadian Bookworm)

I copied these, to add to fully reflect your wrap-up page if you like. :-)

STONES
"The Stonehenge Letters" Harry Karlinsky (Canadian Bookworm)
"When Mountains Move" Julie Cantrell (Canadian Bookworm)

Alas, I'm speaking of those you couldn't get but you know I visited. :) If you decide to remove robot verification, it'll be my pleasure to tour your goings-on again.

It's no trouble for me to glance in linky buttons and write down your points. You'll get what you earned for the February 28 draw. Yes, go ahead and focus on 2015. :) Thank you for the praise.

You recently married, Anstice? How cool! My spouse & I have been together years but no date for a while. After receiving a ring there was a lot of travel, followed by having to buy a house to accommodate our cats. It's exciting you planned and had it. Congratulations! Carolyn.

Anstice, I noticed a wedding post and wished to congratulate you. I'm afraid it's the same boat with Blogspot. Trying 1/2 hour, for comments that MIGHT get through.... I don't think anyone will blame me for giving up and touching base elsewhere! Unless: I hear 'robot verification' is turned off, or folks have changed to a different comment form.

Fortunately, gratefully, the three of you are subscribed or asked for e-mail; Anstice, Nina, Shonna. You miss no info from my blog. I merely wish I could visit. That's why I'm explaining this problem because of course, you wouldn't know. Hoping it's bright snowy weather where each of you live! :) The comment I meant for you, Anstice, is this.

Blogspot is far too difficult to communicate with via external sites, so it's best I not try any longer, unless people tell me they've removed 'robot verification'. Nina, I finally got through on one of your posts but Shonna, I couldn't respond to you. We'll chat here, at e-mail, or among comments at my blog. I've reiterated from time to time, that (A) colours and (B) subjects are separate games. The same book can fulfill both.

Shonna, when you joined in 2014: I said I was pleased with your extra titles among plants and other categories and that they wouldn't go to waste. The prize point chart shows how many more points you earned for exceeding the minimum ten. Look into the linky buttons, or your records, and comment the total on any 2014 page before February 28. I look forward to doing the grand finale draws. So many great reviews were contributed to our permanent review menu! :) I hope everyone knows by now: all of your reviews were gathered into a guest menu. See the very top of the blog.

Review pages are set up for all three groups.
These are always accessible in my blog's top menus. Have at them! :)

GENTLE SPECTRUMS https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/gentle...
ETHEREAL 2015 https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/ethere...
MY KIND OF MYSTERY https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/mykind...

Session 2015 is on! Happy Gentle Spectrums, My Kind Of Mystery, and Ethereal day! Be sure to add a sign-up post, or some website into the linky buttons at the Mother blog. Then I'll know how many are playing and away we go! Yours truly, Carolyn.

Margaret F, who I had in mind, has yet to take up this thread but it's open to everyone! Which authors do you have in abudance at home, that you have not read yet? Here is who I can cross off the list; some only as of this week. I am commencing 2015 blowing through a lot of newbies.

Caroline Roe, Barbara Michaels, Anne Perry, Lilian Jackson Braun, Allison Kingsley, Heather Blake, Sister Carol Anne O'Marie, Madeleine L'Engle, Ellen Crosby, M.C. Beaton, Joan Lowrey Nixon, Carolyn Hart, Susanna Kearsley, Yasmine Galenorn, Annette Blair, Leann Sweeney, Paulo Coelho, Gillian Roberts.

Wow, 18 authors! I have done well since I created this post in April 2014! The only ones I disliked, upon first book thus far, are: M.C. Beaton, Gillian Roberts, and Allison Kingsley. The latter is odd because I love her like mad as Kate Kingsbury. I have done well and perhaps these folks' second books and onward are better. Also in this pile are newly-adored favourite authors and journeys for which I gave five-stars, which is extremely special and a boon to my collection.

I wrote about a funny memory at my blog. For peers not subscribed, it can be found here. https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2015/0...

Sarah, Nina, Cassandra, Yvonne, Sue, Vicki, Tizzy, Shonna, Jessika, Geranium, Mave, Kristine, Margaret: I thought it would be nice to thank all of you for being in my group and to say hello!

The really special thing is that some of you are in Ethereal or My Kind Of Mystery, or not signed up to any just yet. But you are here for my information, or merely enjoy talking with me and I look forward to that. :) Some are signed-up to Gentle Spectrums itself. It is important to me that you know, I appreciate you all. Yours fondly, Carolyn.

Here my own mystery post for 2015. https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2015/0...

This group started out for Gentle Spectrums. These activities are photo-related and Goodreads is a better place to handle those. Without enough members to warrant groups for my other themes, I use it to share personal and all group news. This year no one should miss information or events. Members are either subscribing to my blog, or wanting an e-mail when anything is going on. No more wondering if they know, traipsing across blogs with reminders. It shall pay off. Every year there is a new face and reprisals from first faces, is praise too.

A few friends here aren't yet signed-up into 2015 linkies. They're just glad to hang out and support whatever I'm doing, or they're considering a challenge. Margaret F occasionally does buddy reading and we used these rooms. ;-) I always hope whatever I do, leads to readers of my blog articles and also to challenge guests. I have seen good signs that keeping up my non challenge-related writing has paid off. It is my two recent articles that have brought new subscribers, to my pleasure! About the blight of 2014 for a surprising many and also my stepping back into music.

I have started the year treating myself to recent novels, that would suit Yvonne nicely. I have *AS MANY* 1990s, 2000s, 2010s novels I have not tried either. Before I use up birthday and Christmas gift certificates on work I'm unsure I like; I'm at last giving them a try!

It's fun to give ideas to everyone wanting a look. With Bev's bingo cards needing to be planned carefully, my focus turned to 1960-1989 books. If she took away the line and allowed all literature to 1989, I would love mixing older with the fairly recent! I was saved oldies for this year. It is going to be filled with MANY old greats, from whom I have never read a page.

(1) STONES (jewellery and metals accepted too) ~
“The Hidden Mountain” Gabrielle Roy, “The Tin Flute” Gabrielle Roy.

(2) CHEERFUL ~ (uplifting, positive, pleasant)
“The Splendour Falls” Susanna Kearsley, “A Vision In Velvet” Juliet Blackwell, “The Midnight Dancers” Anne Maybury.

(3) NATIONS ~
“Made In Canada” Bev Spencer, “A Death At St. Auselm’s” Isabelle Holland, “The Chinese Shawl” Patricia Wentworth.

(4) PLANTS ~
“The Summer Tree” Guy Gavriel Kay, “Night Gardening” E.L. Swann, “Tempest In The Tea Leaves” Kari Lee Townsend.

(5) WATER ~
“The Corpse At Oozak’s Pond” Charlotte MacLeod, “The Lake Of Dead Languages” Carol Goodman, “The Dead Sea Cipher” Elizabeth Peters.

(6) SPACE ~
“The Astral Alibi” Manjiri Prabhu, “The Half-A-Moon Inn” Paul Fleischman, “The Street Of The Five Moons” Elizabeth Peters, “Clouds Of Witness” Dorothy Sayers.

(7) DAUNTING (“Oooo! That does not sound good”!) ~
“The Missing Chums” Leslie McFarlane, “Vanishing Bride” Magali, “Death Of A Literary Widow” Robert Barnard, “Danse Macabre” Stephen King, “A Man Lay Dead” Edith Ngaio Marsh, “Whose Body?” Dorothy Leigh Sayers.

(8) STRUCTURES (rooms, proper names, any parts) ~
“The Palace Guard” Charlotte MacLeod, “The Phantom Flame Of Wind House” Katheryn Kimbrough, “The Secret Of Chimneys” Agatha Christie, “The Door” Mary Roberts Rinehart.

(9) TIME (signifiers like seasons, unit-measurers) ~
“Night Travellers” Sandra Birdsell, “The Clock Strikes Twelve” Patricia Wentworth, “Escape The Night” Mignon G. Eberhart, “Night Of Four-Hundred Rabbits” Elizabeth Peters.

(10) HUMOROUS (Odd, anything that gives you a grin or a wry grimace) ~
“The Dragon And The Dry Goods Princess” David Arnason, “The Kissing Man” George Elliott.

Here are some of my ideas for this part of our reading themes! My blog posts are available to browse too. Gentle Spectrums - https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2015/0...
Ethereal - https://cmriedel.wordpress.com/2015/0...

If folks wish to start now, go ahead! I am known to visit everyone's blog with a welcome. I've seen a little cheating in all my themes! ;) Funny to note completed books well before our new run has started, which is why our 2014 logo picture and topics are still on here. Those who launched with me, may have finished for 2014, although I'd like to see prize points comments. I hope you all are excited to attribute what you're reading to 2015. Anyone who would like to; well, the word is that I'm not picky. :)