Holly’s Comments (group member since Jun 15, 2017)

Holly’s comments from the Read, Reading, Planning to Read and More group.

Vanessa wrote: "The latest book in the Nocturne Falls spin-off, the Jayne Frost books came out last Tuesday, Miss Frost Braves The Blizzard: A Nocturne Falls Mystery Miss Frost Braves The Blizzard A Nocturne Falls Mystery (Jayne Frost, #5) by Kristen Painter I find these entertaining, they're funny and light reading. "

I just finished Miss Frost Cracks A Caper so this is good timing for me. I've been having a hard time settling on anything.

That's a good reply Doug.

Vinity wrote: "I wonder if some authors do let other people write their smex scenes? It seems like that is really hard for some authors and it seems most publishers want at least some smex scenes"


I read the Cotton Malone series by Steve Berry. It's adventure and mystery although Cotton does have a love interest. Usually anything smexy is "off camera" but in one book there actually was a smex scene. It was...okay, not great. I wondered if his publisher made him write that scene.

Melindeeloo wrote: "I have a few of those on the TBR as well:). Do you subscribe to Tyler's newsletter? i was sad to see that there were a couple shorts for side characters that were only available in old newsletters - for Megan of the Beta Pack and Kelsey (one of the h's sisters) and Moe of the beta pack."

That's too bad. I'm not subscribed to her newsletter. I'll go searching.

Melindeeloo wrote: "I've been on vacation but sick - always happens this time of year:( so i've been working on the tbr pile and read three SWAT were pnrs (To Love a Wolf,Wolf Trouble,[..."

I like the SWAT series. I like her X-OPs series too.

Karen wrote: "Congratulations, Holly! Will you be traveling to the LA area? I'm from there, but haven't been back home in nearly 20 years. The traffic and people are just too overwhelming for me. The northern CA easy life has hooked me in. "

We lived south of San Francisco near Monterey/Salinas. The company I work for is in Salinas. We are now in southern Oregon, a lot like northern California.

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Congratulations Holly. So, what retirement plans do you have other than reading a ton of books? Am I remembering right that you just downsized your home?"

We sort of downsized. We moved from California to Oregon where everything is less expensive. The house is about the same size but the lot is much smaller. I had a separate sewing studio in California. In the new place I have the loft which is about 1/3 the size of the old studio.

We bought an RV trailer and plan to do some traveling when it warms up.

I gave my official retirement notice yesterday. My last day will be 1/26. They want to do a retirement party so we'll be driving down to California for a few days. I would rather not be the center of attention but you do what you have to do.

Vinity wrote: "Since people are making list. I'd like to know people's comfort reads or palette cleanser.
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Anything by Jennifer Crusie.

Douglas wrote: "I read Venom & Vanilla and liked it but it was so far into weird that I am not sure I would get the sequel when it comes out."

Exactly! I couldn't figure out how to express my thoughts on Venom & Vanilla but this is it.

Douglas wrote: "If you play music on it or just want better sound buy this to go with it, you won't believe how good this little speaker can sound. Pairing it up is easy and I keep the speaker on charger power all the time since I don't carry it anywhere

www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FJILVDS "

Thanks Doug. I was going to look for speakers for Alexa. I've also been searching for a remote for the cable box that Alexa can interact with.

I got an Echo Dot for Christmas. So far we have been having fun with her, asking all kinds of questions. She knows Siri by reputation and has been hanging out with Cortana (Google AI) more lately.

HappyBookWorm2020 wrote: "Recently on Amazon, when reading reviews, I keep finding reviews posted to the wrong book. I was reading reviews for a freebie by Miriam Minger today and found two reviews for books by Clifford Sim..."

I've noticed the same thing for items other than books.

Douglas wrote: "Reading reviews for Flame in the Dark and many people are complaining about "book hangover""

Yep!

I finished Flame in the Dark last night and I have one whopper of a book hangover. I think I'll switch gears and read Miss Frost Cracks A Caper.

Before Flame in the Dark I read Rattling the Heat in Deadwood. That was during my reading slump and it took me a long time to read. It moved the over arching story line along quite a ways.

LAB☺ wrote: "I'm still working on Flame in the Dark . So little reading time with the holiday shopping and work. And I am so close to my goodreads reading c..."

I'm still working on Flame in the Dark as well. I got most of my Christmas shopping done via Amazon and peoples wish lists. I think I only have one gift I have to actually mail myself.

Kristi (foxtail_too) wrote: "I realized something today. In many ways, Amazon has lost business by doing away with the forums. Before, I was on Amazon many times a day, checking the forums I followed. And, I'd see the ads and ..."

There was a group on the main Kindle forum that I followed to a message board set up by one of the members. It's nice to still be able to chat with them but what I've come to realize is that there are no new members stumbling in. It's like a closed society. Without new blood it will eventually die.

Sharon wrote: "Ohhhh this looks like an exciting read guys. I need this book!

Year One

And this...



And maybe this as I have..."

Year One sounds like The Stand. I haven't read that for a few years.

HappyBookWorm2020 wrote: "We don't go all out shopping for Christmas. I've already sent my son to buy his gift while he was out for Thanksgiving holidays - he has a new electric guitar and amp that he picked out himself. It's an odd way to do things but it works for us.
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It's not odd to me. That's pretty much how my husband and I do it.

Elizabeth wrote: "dou i think this is a question for you but if anyone has any input pls let me know.

so my son and daughter both want new laptops ( well son wants a computer he can play games on and daughter wants..."

I've been looking for a laptop since I'll be giving mine back to the company when I retire. Here's some of the things I've discovered.

Gamers need more memory to run all those complex games. They probably don't need a large hard drive although a Solid State drive is preferable since it's faster.

I don't play games on my computer so I don't need one with a lot of memory. I do have a lot of photos so I need a larger disk drive. Laptops configured like this may be labeled "business". Again I think a solid state drive is a must.

I also want something that's not too heavy so I can carry it around. It seems like the Macbook Air (Apple) is one of the slimmest, lightest laptops. And they are really sleek looking. I haven't done any real comparisons though.

I want to be able to hook the laptop up to my dual monitors, keyboard, and mouse so I need a docking station. While you can plug all those devices into the laptop directly, a docking station makes it easier. Since I already have a docking station for a Lenovo ThinkPad I'm leaning towards that.

Remember that I'm not looking for one to run games on but my other requirements are something you might want to consider.